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Indonesia’s ban on digital platforms for children will gradually take effect starting from March 28.
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JAKARTA – Indonesia’s Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MPSE) has begun introducing guidelines on the use of electronic devices in schools to support the implementation of a social media ban for minors under 16 that will come into force in less than three weeks.
The ban on digital platforms for children, which will gradually take effect starting from March 28, is contained in a ministerial regulation issued on March 9 by the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (MCDA) as the implementing regulation for the Child Protection in Digital Space Regulation (PP Tunas), which was introduced in 2025.
