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Implications, context, and why it matters.

Indonesia’s new rule pushes digital platforms to rebuild safety settings

• PP Tunas goes past a minimum-age rule, such as X’s 16+ requirement in Indonesia. It tells services to build “child protection by default” into product design, alongside privacy-by-design practices 1.
• Services must get verifiable consent from a parent or guardian before processing children’s data, run impact assessments on risks to children, and set child accounts to the strictest privacy settings automatically 1.
• The regulation bans commercial profiling of children’s behavior unless a valid legal basis applies 1.
• Coverage goes beyond social networking. It reaches gaming, e-commerce, educational technology, and government digital services that children can access 1.

Indonesia pitches PP Tunas as a non-Western model for child safety, with wide compliance impact

• Officials call the regulation a step toward safer online spaces for children. They say Indonesia is the first “non-Western” country to introduce age-based access delays for children on high-risk platforms 2.
• The government says the framework goes further than Australia’s because it applies to all electronic system providers (PSE), a government category for companies and agencies that operate digital services in Indonesia, rather than only social networking services 3.
• Global tech companies face a compliance burden. They must build age verification that works across technologies, since the government does not mandate a specific tool if it is reliable and effective 4.
• Experts say results depend on parents’ digital literacy, which varies across Indonesia’s socioeconomic landscape 5.