Indonesia vs. Worldcoin: The Bureaucratic Opera Nobody Asked For 😏

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Frozen! Not winter, not your leftovers—just World’s Registration Certificate, swept into a bureaucratic snowdrift by Indonesia for its allegedly extravagant electronic misconduct.⛄️

World’s Regulatory Winter: A Comedy of Errors

In the balmy humidity of Jakarta, a chill has descended upon World (formerly Worldcoin) and Worldid, as the Ministry of Communication and Digital waved its icy wand and froze their Electronic System Organizer Registration Certificate (TDPSE). The crime? An exuberant disregard for regulations—a plot twist as old as Dostoevsky, but with more lawyers. 🌪️

Two local companies—PT. Terang Bulan Abadi and PT. Sandina Abadi Nusantara—now await their summons, the way a poet awaits inspiration or, perhaps, a summons from a rather humorless tax office. The ministry, playing detective and judge, cited “suspicious activities,” which, in bureaucracy, are often subtler than Tolstoy’s footnotes.

Director General Alexander Sabar, casting himself as the guardian of the digital tundra, declared that the freeze is not an art installation but a necessary precaution. “We don’t want chaos,” he basically said, “even if chaos is far more interesting.”

Investigators found that PT. Terang Bulan Abadi registered as a PSE, but either mislaid or never acquired the coveted TDPSE—dramatic gasp! Meanwhile, World, the digital Icarus, soared too close to the legal sun on wings built from PT. Sandina Abadi Nusantara’s credentials. Bureaucrats everywhere raised their eyebrows in synchrony.

World’s Gentle Slide Down the Global Regulatory Slope

Indonesian regulations, scripted with the seriousness of a Chekhov play, require all digital service providers to register, lest unregistered electrons rebel. This includes observance of Government Regulation Number 71 of 2019 and the Ministry’s Regulation Number 10 of 2021, numbers guaranteed to soothe insomniacs.

Director General Sabar, weary yet vigilant, opined, “Using someone else’s paperwork is a serious violation.” Somewhere, Kafka smiled. Meanwhile, World’s legal headaches span continents: France, Germany, the UK—with its dread GDPR—each brandishing inquiries about iris-scanning and data collection with the suspicious fervor of cats eyeing cucumbers. 🥒

In Kenya, where August is not just a month but a timeline for suspension, World’s operations remain paused. Suspicion lingers in the air, layered and subtle, like the aroma of bureaucratic coffee. In the US, World’s shiny ideas about biometrics and crypto get the side-eye from lawmakers, who much prefer their scandals old-fashioned and without math.

Sabar, still standing watch at the digital gates, intoned: “Yes, we will bravely, stubbornly, and unyieldingly ensure our digital space is safe.” Is the public reassured? Did anyone ask for this opera? No one knows. But the ministry invites everyone to play minor supporting roles by reporting digital miscreants, in this never-ending Russian novel of compliance. 📖

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2025-05-05 21:57