JAKARTA:  , Indonesia plans to issue a restriction to set a maximum time for users of social media, a move aimed at protecting kids, its communications minister has said.
The plans follow Australia’s determination to forbid children under the age of 16 from using social media, and they also include fines for tech giants like Instagram and Facebook’s Meta to TikTok if they didn’t stop kids from using their platforms.
What is the least time that Indonesians should be, according to Minister Meutya Hafid? Her remarks, made late on Monday ( Jan 13 ), came after Meutya discussed the plan with President Prabowo Subianto.
In a video posted on the government’s office’s YouTube channel, she said,” We discussed how to protect babies in online place.”
The president instructed me to take this out. He supports the implementation of this kind of child protection in our modern world, she said.
Internet infiltration in Indonesia, a nation of about 280 million people, reached 79.5 per cent last year, according to a study of 8, 700 persons by the Indonesia Internet Service Providers ‘ Association.
The study showed 48 per cent of children under 12 had access to the internet, with some interviewees of that time cluster using Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. The study showed digital penetration was 87 per share among” Gen Z” people, or those age 12 to 27.  ,