Indonesia summons Meta and Google over non-compliance with youngster social media curbs, minister says

Indonesia summoned officers from Meta and Google over non-compliance with social media restrictions for youngsters ​beneath 16 that went into full impact final week, ‌a minister stated in a video assertion revealed on ​Tuesday.

Indonesia requires social media firms ⁠with platforms it deems excessive danger to deactivate accounts belonging to youngsters beneath 16, beneath a regulation that went into ‌impact final week.

Meutya Hafid, Indonesia’s Communications and Digital Minister, stated Meta and Google are “two ‌enterprise entities which are non-compliant with the regulation” ‌and ⁠that they have been summoned on Monday to “bear checks”.

Failure to implement the curbs might lead to sanctions or perhaps a block on the platform, the ministry has stated.

Meutya ​stated Google and ‌Meta had opposed the curbs from the very starting.

Google and Meta didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon Tuesday. Each firms stated ‌final week they’d put in place safeguards ​for youngsters.

Roblox and TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, are two different platforms deemed ⁠excessive danger by the ministry. Meutya stated the ministry despatched a warning to the 2 firms to be ‌absolutely compliant or danger being summoned. TikTok and Roblox didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

Indonesia’s curbs, which the federal government says are meant to scale back the chance of cyberbullying and dependancy, comply with a ban in Australia final 12 months over considerations about ‌social media’s potential harms to younger folks’s psychological well being.

The ​standards for high-risk platforms embrace the potential for speaking to strangers, addictive qualities and psychological dangers, ⁠the ministry stated.

Web penetration in Indonesia reached 80.66% ⁠in 2025, in line with a survey by the Indonesia Web Service Suppliers’ Affiliation. The survey confirmed ‌it was 87.8% amongst “Gen Z” customers aged 13 to twenty-eight.

There are about 70 million ​youngsters beneath 16 in Indonesia, Meutya stated.