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Protecting the youth: This photo taken on Oct. 30, 2025, shows 10-year- old Bianca Navarro lying on the floor as she watches a show on YouTube at her home in western Sydney, Australia. Australia’s un- der-16 social media ban will make the nation a real-life laboratory on how best to tackle the technology’s impact on young people, experts say. (AFP/David Gray)
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he threat of online child exploitation continues to loom despite the government’s plan to restrict children’s access to certain digital platforms, as experts warn that predators can easily move across multiple online spaces where young users interact.
Indonesia will soon begin limiting accounts belonging to users under 16 on several “high-risk platforms” under the Child Protection in Digital Space Regulation (PP Tunas), which aims to protect children from online dangers ranging from pornography and cyberbullying to exploitation.
However, parents and experts say the policy alone may not fully shield children from online predators.
Sali, a 29-year-old mother of a five-year-old in Jakarta, said she had long been concerned about the risks children face in the digital environment. Although she strictly limits her daughter’s access to gadgets, she believes the dangers remain unavoidable for a generation growing up online.
“Among digital natives, parental monitoring is increasingly limited. Cyberbullying and child exploitation are very likely to occur,” Sali told The Jakarta Post.
Read also: Indonesia to start banning social media for children under 16 this month
One common form of online exploitation is child grooming, a process in which perpetrators build trust with minors before manipulating them emotionally or sexually, according to family and child psychologist Anna Surti Ariani.
