This is despite the fact that nine months ago it announced a tough copyright law and launched a crackdown on sales of pirated software.

That crackdown applied to other people.

However, a spokesman for the government's information minister said that representatives of government institutions have agreed to take an inventory of pirated software in government offices and negotiate with legal vendors for lower prices.

"It would be ironic if we break the law we made ourselves," Kristiadi told Agence France Presse.

The government is looking at the Linux operating system, it appears.

Some estimate that nine out of 10 computers in Indonesia use pirated software. µ