Methods

The study was designed to survey a representative sample of Indonesian Internet users in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. Jakarta is selected as the population for the research because the city has the highest number of Internet users in Indonesia with 5.6 million users.

Through using a snowball sampling procedure, 500 Indonesian Internet users will be selected from the sampling frame. Atkinson and Clint (Baltar, 2012) defined snowball sampling as:


 * a technique for finding research subjects. One subject gives the researcher the name of another subject, who in turn provides the name of a third, and so on. This strategy can be viewed as a response to overcoming the problems associated with sampling concealed hard to reach populations such as the criminal and the isolated.

Respondents will be recruited through email and social media networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, and email. The survey will be conducted online since the Internet survey is inexpensive and easy to use (Couper, Kapteyn, Schonlau, & Winter, 2007) (Green & Salkind , 2010). Likert scales will be used in this survey. In this format (Seaman & Allen, 2007), respondents are asked to indicate “how much they agree or disagree, approve or disapprove, or believe to be true or false.” Also in this survey, respondents will be asked to rate their level of agreement with the statement from level 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). In addition, data analysis will be conducted using SPSS

The questionnaire will comprise three sections. The first section will be about the enforcement of Law No.11/2008 on electronic and information transactions, while the second section will provide questions on the ban of certain websites due to their indecent content. The third section will include demographic information, such as age, gender, highest degree of education, frequency of Internet use, and types of online activities. The questionnaire will take approximately 5 to 10 minutes to complete. Survey questions will also be shared in the wiki; thus members of the audience could contribute through comments or by adding some other possible questions.