“I don’t watch anything strange … just normal things,” he said of his social media use. Indonesia’s social media curbs, which the government says are intended to reduce the risk of cyberbullying and addiction, follow a ban in Australia last year over concerns about social media’s potential harms to young people’s mental health. “The policy is all concepts, but the technical guidance is still lacking,” said Ika Idris, a social media expert at Monash University who has children, aged 11 and 16, who use Roblox. X said Indonesia’s minimum age requirement “prevents age-restricted social media platforms, including X, from letting people under 16 create or keep an account. Removing accounts of under-16s on YouTube would create a “knowledge divide” ​in a country of 280 million people, Google said.

Source: Bangkok Post March 28, 2026 06:06 UTC