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        "id": 1648530,
        "msgid": "child-friendly-broadcasting-and-a-home-for-children-1775026253",
        "date": "2026-04-01 13:25:09",
        "title": "Child-Friendly Broadcasting and a Home for Children",
        "author": "",
        "source": "DETIK",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Regulation",
        "summary": "The Indonesian government's recent enactment of Government Regulation No. 17 of 2025 on the Governance of Electronic Systems for Child Protection (PP TUNAS) coincides with National Broadcasting Day, highlighting the need for a safer digital environment for children amid concerns over addictive social media platforms. While the regulation restricts access for those under 16 and calls for widespread digital literacy efforts, the role of families in supervising media consumption remains crucial, especially as parents themselves grapple with information overload. Traditional media like television and radio, which meet quality standards and are rigorously monitored by the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission, are positioned as reliable 'homes' for children to access educational content.",
        "content": "<p>Not long after, the government\u2019s enactment of Government Regulation\nNo.\u00a017 of 2025 on the Governance of Electronic Systems in Child\nProtection (PP TUNAS) came just days before the commemoration of\nNational Broadcasting Day (HARSIARNAS). These two events certainly serve\nas a momentum for improving the quality of information, particularly in\ncreating a child-friendly digital space. Every 1 April, Indonesian\nsociety celebrates HARSIARNAS to preserve the historical legacy of the\nestablishment of the first radio by Mangkunegoro VII, named Solosche\nRadio Vereniging (SRV). The emergence of PP TUNAS is a response to\ndigital phenomena deemed insufficiently child-friendly. Several studies\nhave warned that social media does not always have positive impacts. It\nleaves steep gaps for children. Not because of the content, but also, on\na very important side, children are not yet sufficiently able to\ncritically digest the abstract information circulating on social media,\nespecially content devoid of value. This inadequacy of ability is what\ncan be understood as the basic effort behind protection initiatives.\nConsidering that social media and other new media do not arrive bearing\nonly nobility. As shown in recent cases in the United States regarding\nplatform efforts to create addictive spaces without warnings to\nconsumers. In that case, Meta and Google were found guilty of showing\nindications of making children addicted to social media. This addiction\nshould not be seen merely as a phenomenon of children\u2019s playfulness with\nsocial media, but it seems deliberately designed to render children\npowerless before social media. In this context, consumer protection\nregulations are deemed important. Protecting from Home The government\u2019s\nboldness in \u2018isolating\u2019 children under 16 years old is a step worthy of\nappreciation, although it requires further actions. Of course, it needs\na massive and equitable digital literacy movement, so that society,\nespecially children, can be more critical in selecting information. Next\nis the role of the family, which must not fade. The author recalls what\nwas conveyed by KH Wahab Hasbullah (KH Wahab Hasbullah in the Eyes of\nthe Family, 2025), that one day television will no longer require\nantennas or cables to capture broadcasts. Likewise with handphones,\nwhich will be free from cables that often disturb us. The imagination of\none of the initiators of media emergence in the NU body has indeed\nbecome a reflection; not limited to the devices, but also affecting\nconsumption patterns. As a past experience when still a child, we rarely\naccessed information without family accompaniment. One family room where\nthe television is attached to the house wall, there is interaction in it\nthat makes the atmosphere warm and mutually mitigating. Children are not\nleft alone in digesting information. The family stands as an information\nnetwork, providing additional information or even correcting information\ndeemed unsuitable for children. Now the symptoms are different. Parents\nmay also be among the subjects who are \u2018powerless\u2019 amid the octopus of\nsocial media information. Thus, we often witness that when children are\nwatching television or engrossed with their own handphones, it is the\nsame with parents who accompany them. The greater challenge is how this\nchild protection step is made into a collective will. Not relying solely\non the government. So that we can together monitor both the exposure of\ninformation to children or the implementation of those regulations. Not\nMerely Friendly Amid such behavioural changes, HARSIARNAS becomes a\nchannel that never fades amid technology and information challenges. If\nin the past it was a pillar of patriotism, now television and radio must\nunavoidably contextualise their functions. The 2025 Survey of TV\nBroadcast Programme Quality Index (IKPSTV) records that children\u2019s\nprogrammes already meet standards. It scores an index of 3.41, followed\nby news programmes (3.37), infotainment (2.68), religious (3.82), soap\noperas (3.05), talk shows (3.36), variety shows (3.09), and cultural\ntourism programmes (3.47). With this data, television can be said to be\na sufficiently child-friendly space. Thus, in my view, television and\nradio become information instruments worthy of being a home for\nchildren, especially in accessing information for their growth and\ndevelopment. Moreover, television and radio are the only instruments\nmonitored in real-time 24 hours by the Indonesian Broadcasting\nCommission (KPI). Finally, the regulation of children\u2019s access to social\nmedia through PP TUNAS and the HARSIARNAS commemoration must be made a\nmomentum by television and radio to provide quality broadcast programmes\nfor children, whether programmes directly related to children or other\nprogrammes deemed still within the \u2018duration\u2019 when children are actively\nwatching and listening to television and radio. Ubaidilah, Chairman of\nthe Central Indonesian Broadcasting Commission<\/p>",
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