Tifatul Sembiring
| Tifatul Sembiring | |
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| Minister of Communication and Information of Indonesia | |
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In office 22 October 2009 – 27 October 2014 |
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| President | Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono |
| Preceded by | Muhammad Nuh |
| Succeeded by | Rudiantara |
| President of Prosperous Justice Party | |
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In office 11 October 2004 – 22 October 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Hidayat Nur Wahid |
| Succeeded by | Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 28, 1961 Bukittinggi, West Sumatra, Indonesia |
| Nationality | Indonesian |
| Children | 7 |
| Religion | Islam |
Tifatul Sembiring (born 28 September 1961 in Bukitinggi, West Sumatra) is an Indonesian politician. He was chairman of the Islamic Prosperous Justice Party and Minister of Communication and Information in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet. He has a degree in computer engineering from the Information and Computing Management School (Indonesian: Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Manajemen Informatika dan Komputer), Jakarta, and was active in a number of Indonesian Islamic organisations from his student days, such as PII, the Indonesian Student's Association
His father is Karo and moved to Bukittinggi where he married a Minangkabau woman. Tifatul is the head of the big family in Guguak Tabek Sarojo, Agam, West Sumatra by the title Datuk Tumangguang. He is married to Sri Rahayu and has seven children: Sabriana, Fathan, Ibrahim, Yusuf, Fatimah, Muhammad and Abdurrahman Sembiring.
In 2009, he blamed immorality for a Sumatra earthquake and other natural disasters. As he addressed a Friday prayer meeting in Padang, Sumatra, the minister said "there were many television programmes that destroyed morals. Therefore, natural disasters would continue to occur."
His ambition to filter the internet for 'negative' content, shelved in early 2010 in the face of broad opposition, may be revived after a celebrity sex scandal centred on Ariel (Nazril Irham), which Sembiring controversially linked to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The move apparently has the backing of then-president Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and would involve a blacklist of offensive material monitored by a special task force, which gave birth to the controversial 'Internet Positif.'
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