Indonesia to push social media protections ahead of age-limit law

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Indonesia volition enforce interim kid extortion guidelines connected societal media companies portion the authorities carves retired a instrumentality to acceptable a minimum property for users of the platforms, a elder communications ministry authoritative said connected Wednesday.

On Monday, communications curate Meutya Hafid said the authorities planned to contented a regularisation to acceptable a minimum property for societal media users, aft discussing the connection to support children online with President Prabowo Subianto.

The program follows Australia's determination to prohibition children nether 16 from accessing societal media, with fines for tech giants from Instagram and Facebook proprietor Meta to TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, if they failed to forestall children from accessing their platforms.

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