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Brian Gordon

Epic Games no longer blocked in Indonesia after registering with government

Epic Games was blocked briefly from the world’s fourth-most populated country but on Tuesday complied with Indonesia’s requirement that it register with its ministry of information.

The Cary-based creator of Fortnite complied with an Indonesian law that some internet rights groups have called invasive.

For more than a week, the archipelago nation of Indonesia had blocked its 270 million citizens from accessing Epic’s distribution platform, the Epic Games Store, due to the company’s failure to comply with an Indonesian law requiring foreign private electronic system operators to register with the government.

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