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Information ministry threatens to shut down X over adult content
Indonesia has strict rules that ban the sharing online of content deemed obscene.
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ndonesia is prepared to shut down social media platform X if it does not comply with a regulation barring adult content, the Communications and Information Technology Minister said on Friday.
Indonesia has strict rules that ban the sharing online of content deemed obscene.
Minister Budi Arie Setiadi told Reuters he had sent a warning letter to X related to this matter.
"We will certainly shut its services down," he said, pointing to the electronic information and transaction (ITE) law that can carry a six-year jail sentence if someone spreads pornographic content.
His comments in an interview come after the social media platform recently updated its policies to permit consensually produced adult content.
X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has not responded to the warning letter, Budi said, adding the government would send more letters before deciding on a potential closure.
X, formerly known as Twitter, did not immediately respond to a request by Reuters for comment.
Indonesians are big users of social media and X has 24.85 million users in the country, according to data gathering business Statista.
