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        "id": 2048928,
        "msgid": "communications-minister-denies-restricting-wildfire-content-1792590683",
        "date": "2026-10-21 19:54:24",
        "title": "Communications Minister Denies Restricting Wildfire Content",
        "author": "",
        "source": "VIVA",
        "tags": "berita",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "Communications and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid says her ministry has not asked social media platforms to remove or restrict information about forest and land fires. She says public posts help the response and urges platforms to be transparent about their algorithms, while advising users to appeal restrictions and report issues to the government.",
        "content": "<p>Communications and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid said the\nministry had not asked any social media platform operating in Indonesia\nto remove content related to information about forest and land fires\n(karhutla).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been no removal of content, nor any request from the\nMinistry of Communications and Digital Affairs to remove content in\norder to restrict information about forest and land fires,\u201d Meutya said\nin an official press statement in Jakarta on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Meutya said information about forest and land fires shared on social\nnetworks by members of the public was an important source that could\nmake the response more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>She said the government itself used social media platforms such as\nTikTok, Instagram and Meta\u2019s Threads to share information about the\nfires as part of its public communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is also amplifying information about forest and land\nfires through its social media channels as part of public\ncommunications. The government welcomes factual, credible and\naccountable information about the fires,\u201d Meutya said.<\/p>\n<p>In response to reports of restrictions on fire-related content that\nhave been widely discussed online, the minister urged platform operators\nto disclose their algorithms transparently, including the limits set out\nin their community guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>She said algorithmic transparency would help the public understand\nhow platforms decide whether content is published or access to it is\nrestricted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ministry of Communications and Digital Affairs is instead\nencouraging platforms to ensure accountability and transparency in their\nalgorithms. What we see and consume on social media should be a user\u2019s\nright as a consumer to choose, rather than being determined unilaterally\nby technology companies,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Meutya added that people who believed their posts about forest and\nland fires had been restricted, or that they had experienced service\ndisruptions on any social media platform, should submit a complaint or\nappeal to the platform.<\/p>\n<p>She said the government could also receive reports of such cases and\nfollow them up with the platforms concerned.<\/p>",
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