Irene Poetranto examines Indonesia’s use of domain name system (DNS) redirection as a method of internet censorship in a new essay published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
In Techno-Legal Internet Controls in Indonesia and Their Impact on Free Expression Poetranto explains how DNS redirection, a new type of DNS tampering, was introduced in Indonesia following the establishment of Indonesia’s national DNS. She discusses what this means for internet users in Indonesia.
Irene Poetranto is a senior researcher at the Citizen Lab.
This essay was published on May 28, 2025, in Digital Democracy in a Divided Global Landscape by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.