A two-day outage on Cloudflare has left thousands of companies that rely on its CDN and DDOS protection services inaccessible worldwide. With its name now in the news, the Ministry of Communications and Informatics (Komdigi) has warned that it will block all Cloudflare services in Indonesia.
Cloudflare will be blocked because it is not yet registered in Indonesia and does not have an official representative in the country as required by the authorities. At the same time, Komdigi also said that Cloudflare is used by tens of thousands of blocked gambling sites.
An official warning letter has been sent by Komdigi to Cloudflare, giving it 14 days to register and cooperate. Failure to do so will result in Cloudflare being blocked after that period. If this happens, many official and media sites in Indonesia will be affected because 20% of the world's websites rely on Cloudflare.
The Private Sector Electronic System Operator (PSE) Permit requires all domestic and foreign digital and online service companies to be registered in Indonesia since 2022. As a result, popular services such as PayPal, Reddit, Steam, and Epic Games were blocked for several weeks, angering users.
