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Government takes aim at two-month deadline for child online protection guideline
In a meeting with lawmakers on Tuesday, the communications minister laid out her plans to draw up an interim guideline on child online protection in the next two months as a stepping-stone to national legislation, underlining that the new policy would not limit freedom of expression.
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Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid (center, facing row) attends a working meeting with House of Representatives Commission I on Nov. 5, 2024, along with her deputy ministers Nezar Patria (left) and Angga Raka Prabowo (right), at the Senayan legislative compound in Jakarta. (Antara/Dhemas Reviyanto)
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he government is mounting its efforts to wrap up an interim guideline on child online protection and establish a dedicated task force in line with President Prabowo Subianto’s two-month deadline for new policies.
The drafting team led by the Communications and Digital Ministry, which includes other officials as well as representatives from child protection groups, academia and psychologists, convened earlier this month to discuss and draw up the guideline.
At a meeting on Tuesday with House of Representatives Commission I overseeing communications and information, communications minister Meutya Hafid said the team had gathered feedback from the public, particularly parents, on key points to incorporate in the draft policy.
One such point encouraged “children to use social media under parental supervision”, the minister, who hails from the Golkar Party, told lawmakers.
She also made assurances that the social media policy for, the country’s first such rule, would not violate freedom of expression.
The draft rules would include sanctions for technology companies that allowed underage users to access their social media platform, Meutya added.
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