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Indonesia plans minimum age for social media use


The plans follows Australia's decision to ban children under 16 from accessing social media. Read more at straitstimes.com.

JAKARTA - Indonesia plans to issue a regulation to set a minimum age for users of social media, a move aimed at protecting children, its communications minister has said. “We discussed how to protect children in digital space,” she said in a video uploaded on the YouTube channel of the president’s office. The survey showed 48 per cent of children under 12 had access to the internet, with some respondents of that age group using Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

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