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A 13-year-old boy poses at his home as he looks at social media on his tablet in Sydney on December 8, 2025. Australia will ban young teenagers from social media on December 10, 2025, launching a world-first crackdown designed to unglue children from addictive scrolling on the likes of Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. (AFP/Saeed Khan)
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ocial media and other digital platforms in Indonesia now have three months to assess child safety risks under a new government regulation, with users under 16 facing restrictions on high-risk services to curb exposure to harmful content and online exploitation.
After a year of drafting and consultations, the Communications and Digital Ministry finally issued its ministerial regulation last Friday as a technical guideline for Child Protection in Digital Space Regulation (PP Tunas).
The policy is designed to safeguard children from online threats such as grooming, abuse and harmful content, which Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid described as a “digital emergency” in Indonesia.
Made publicly available on Monday, the regulation requires online platforms to conduct a self-assessment of their “risk profile” for children, evaluating factors such as children’s access to interacting with strangers and exposure to violent or pornographic content, according to Article 8.
Article 25 further mandates that platforms review their child safety measures, including parental controls, content moderation systems and limits on in-app purchases. All must implement age-verification mechanisms in line with the age limit they established.
Indonesia to start banning social media for children under 16 this month::
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