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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Indonesian tribal group wants internet shut off | Mind Blowing Facts

Traditional Baduy tribal houses in the Indonesian village of Kanekes in Banten province on Java. (Photo: AFP)

JAKARTA: An Indigenous community in Indonesia has requested an internet blackout in their area to minimise the "negative impact" of the online world, officials said Friday.

The Baduy, a community of 26,000 people in Banten province on Java island, divide themselves into an outer group that partly adopts technology, and a more fundamentalist inner group that shuns the trappings of contemporary life.

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