Although most social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook require users to be at least 13 years old to register, Indonesian lawmakers disagree stating they lack regulations and would benefit from a higher age limit to protect children online.

“We cannot control the whole content, social media content, especially related to violence, pornography, or hate speech. One of the alternatives is to limit the age for users,” said Abdul Kadir Karding, member of the People’s Representative Council for Indonesia.


Research published in 2019 found that more than 90 percent internet users in Indonesia are of ages 15 to 19 years old.

Is this really necessary?
Aside from the numerous benefits, the internet has to offer, social media is a double-edged sword.

According to The Diplomat, social media has brought plenty of negative consequences to Indonesian society. Namely, social media abuse and ethical violations.

Social media abuse ranges from harassment to misusing the platform while ethical violations include spreading fake news, defamation, uploading graphic images, online shopping scams, and more.

Spreading misinformation and harassment are arguably the more detrimental practices on social media but yet the government of Indonesia does not seem to take any steps towards promoting social media literacy.

Perhaps the new law will help protect vulnerable groups aka minors but many parties have suggested a layered approach instead.

This emphasizes the importance of not only creating laws to protect children but incorporating social media literacy education into the national education curriculum.

The Indonesian communications ministry admits that the new restrictions will be hard to impose hence users under 17 are allowed to use social media only with consent from their parents.



Source; https://www.prosyscom.tech/social-media/indonesia-ban-social-media-users-age-17/

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Ehen. It is always difficult to sieve the seeds from the shafts. That is a known fact. If they do this the disadvantages will be more than the potential so called "moral"advantage.

It is not possible!

Third world countries will always focus on the unnecessary policies instead of how to move their nation out of the dumpster

Pikin wey go spoil go spoil.

Nigerian will protest against this injustice to the people of Indonesia

Very soon Nigeria government go copy dem.

Na this kind bad bad thing dem like to dey copy

dogmart:
Ehen. It is always difficult to sieve the seeds from the shafts. That is a known fact. If they do this the disadvantages will be more than the potential so called "moral"advantage.

It is not possible!

What are the disadvantages pls?

MUSLIMS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BACKWRD.



I BET U, THE MUSLIMS IN NIGERIA WILL ADOPT THIS AS THEIR RELIGIOUS GOSPEL.

tamdun:

What are the disadvantages pls?

Learning is a lot different from what we had in our time. A 6 year old child is already as knowledgeable as an 18 year old. Why?

All the information are at his finger tips.

Take for instance what happened during the lock down. So without internet how would they have been able to study?

So if u decide to cut off the internet just because a few are going astray then u only end up cutting off the positive side and advantages which is in my own opinion higher than the disadvantages.


Without the internet in our days guys were already "Smashing" girls at the back of the classes after closing hours. Kids not older than 12 years old were already doing things mouth cannot say.

Let's stop decieving ourselves.