The manufacturer of BlackBerry vowed to Indonesia on Monday that it will meet the country's request to screen out pornographic content on its smartphones in the coming four days, as stated by one government spokesman.
Research In Motion Ltd. committed in the last week to install the filters after Indonesia threatened to cancel Blackberry's license for operating in the country, the world's most populous Muslim nation. The Canada-based company sorted out the details of the agreement in a meeting with government officials on Monday.
Gregory Wade, RIM's managing director for Southeast Asia stated that the company had discussed the issue with the six operators that support BlackBerry service in Indonesia and all of them will be implementing together.
He stated that they fully understand the requirement as chalked out by the ministry, and they are fully committed for providing solutions that comply with the requirement of Indonesia's government and the ministry related to BlackBerry service in Indonesia
Gatot Dewabroto, spokesman from Ministry of Communication and Information stated that the company vowed to do so within one hundred hours of the meeting prior to the government's deadline on Jan. 21. The government has stated that it will not extend the deadline.
RIM has also settled for setting up servers in the country, as requested.
A number of nations have expressed their concerns on national security about encrypted information on users' BlackBerrys if RIM did not provide means for the governments to monitor them. They have threatened to shut out RIM, who leads the competition for ensuring security to its users all over the world.
Indonesia stated that RIM earns about two hundred and fifty one million dollars per year from the nation's three million BlackBerry users.












