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Pro Cons Indoleaks 

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Pro Cons ndol s

After the virtual world was excited by Wikileaks, a website which leaked the secret

document about diplomatic of USA government, now Indonesia also have similar sites.

Indoleaks its name, this site is ready to publish secret documents related to incidents that

occurred in Indonesia. Indoleaks.org was created on December 7

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2010. The identity of account owner is hidden by using Privacyprotect.org. The existence of Indoleaks still causes

pro cons in the community. Here are a few arguments.

On the one hand, Indoleaks is considered as a site that can break the d eadlock of 

information. Indoleaks can scatter all documents that are considered to have the public

interest, because the information is the right of people.

So far, Indoleaks have published documents about Lumpur Lapindo Scientific Notes,

MOU RI Government- Microsoft Secrets documents, transcript of Suhartos discussion,

Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger in 1970, the Visum of G 30 S/PKI, and Century Bank Audit

Result by BPK. These documents can increase public knowledge about current government

issues. Any problem can be expressed in a transparent state. It can makes our societyunderstanding the problems of the country and not only demanded the government to fix it.

In addition, the site Indoleaks can minimize corruption by politicians or government

officials. Because the documents is released on the site, and it will be leaked if there is

something deviation doing by governments agency or officials.

With understanding of state secret documents by public, this means that the society

also participate in supervising the performance of governments. If in their works there are

frauds, people can quickly find out and ask governments liability. Like the unresolved case

of Century Bank, the result of its audit by BPK can be downloaded at this site.

But on the other hand, Indoleaks is regarded as provocateurs which spread negativeissues about government. Maybe there are some things that dont deserve to know and not

proper to be exposed. It can causes a scandal that ultimately destabilize the government.

We know that some communities in Indonesia, there are not yet ready to receive

such information. If known there is fraud, then people would use this as weapon to do

demonstration acts or anarchist which threaten security. It is also properly considered by

Indoleaks maker as the imp act of these confidential documents.

Indoleaks also could cause other risk. Secret documents that can be downloaded

easily and free to be abused by irresponsible people. Recalling also that Indoleaks invite

public to send secret documents to be published on this site. This certainly can be misused

some people to create false documents about governments. It doesnt close the possibilitythat the documents have been edited and the authenticity is questionable.

From the few arguments, it can be concluded that Indoleaks is not entirely giving

negative impact to the community. It depends on what and how secret documents were

used. We have to used the documents for positive things and just for add our knowledge.