Platform classifications, age thresholds and school procedures all change, and they change faster than training material does. Use this card rather than a memorised app list or a screenshot from an earlier course.
Indonesia has national rules on protecting children in electronic systems.
There are national rules covering how online services must treat children. This card names the current ones and the date we checked them.
As at the review date: Government Regulation No. 17 of 2025 on child protection in electronic systems, with its implementing regulation Permen Komdigi No. 9 of 2026, promulgated on 6 March 2026.
Why it ages: Regulations are amended, replaced and renumbered, and implementing rules change faster than the laws above them.
Child accounts are restricted on platforms classified as high risk.
Indonesia restricts child accounts on platforms that are classified as high risk. The age threshold and the phase-in are set by regulation, so check the current threshold rather than quoting one from memory.
As at the review date: implementation began on 28 March 2026, applying to children under 16 on platforms in the first high-risk phase.
Why it ages: Age thresholds, phase-in dates and the classification method can all change independently of each other.
Which platforms are covered is decided by classification, and it changes.
Never work from a memorised app list or an old screenshot. Which services are covered is a classification decision that is revised, and apps are renamed, merged and added.
As at the review date: the first phase named a small number of large platforms. We deliberately do not reproduce that list here, because it is the part most likely to be out of date by the time you read it.
Why it ages: A list baked into a lesson becomes wrong quietly, and adults keep teaching it for years.
A platform’s own minimum age is not the same thing as the law.
Two separate things decide whether a child may use a service: the platform’s own terms, and the rules that apply in Indonesia. Either can change, and neither settles the question on its own.
As at the review date: “everything is simply 13 and over” is not accurate for Indonesia.
Why it ages: The 13-and-over figure is widely repeated, easy to remember, and increasingly wrong.
Schools operate under a national school-safety framework that now includes digital safety.
Follow your school’s current written procedure rather than a workflow you remember from earlier training. The named bodies and their duties are set by regulation and have changed.
As at the review date: Permendikdasmen No. 6 of 2026 on a safe and comfortable school culture, which replaced the 2023 regulation and explicitly includes digital safety.
Why it ages: School safeguarding architecture is rewritten with each regulation, and older training decks still teach the previous committee names as current.
Indonesia’s electronic information law has been amended more than once.
Cite the current version from this card rather than the version in older training slides, and remember that this course does not teach legal diagnosis.
As at the review date: Law No. 1 of 2024, the second amendment to Law No. 11 of 2008.
Why it ages: Material written before 2024 still presents the 2016 amendment as the endpoint.
Indonesia has a personal data protection law.
A child’s personal data is protected by law, which matters both for what schools hold and for what adults publish about children.
As at the review date: Law No. 27 of 2022 on Personal Data Protection.
Why it ages: Implementing regulations, enforcement bodies and transition periods continue to develop after a law comes into force.
Sexual violence law can apply to online sexual exploitation of a child.
Online sexual exploitation of a child is not a lesser category of harm, and specialist legal support exists. Your job is to recognise that the case has exceeded your role, not to name the offence.
As at the review date: Law No. 12 of 2022 on Sexual Violence Offences.
Why it ages: Implementing regulations and institutional duties develop after enactment, and the useful behaviour for a non-specialist does not change with them.
Help numbers and service mandates are checked on a schedule.
The numbers in this course are the ones current at the review date shown here. If a number does not connect, use the other route on the card, and tell us.
As at the review date: SAPA 129 on 129 and WhatsApp 08-111-129-129; Polri 110; Ambulance 119.
Why it ages: Service numbers, operating hours and the organisations behind them change, and local offices change most often of all.
This course teaches first-line safeguarding, not legal diagnosis.
Indonesian law and institutional duties may require additional actions depending on the incident and your professional role. Use the current policy references and your own institution’s safeguarding procedure, and do not try to classify an offence yourself.