GP Parmusi Views PP Tunas as Revolutionary Breakthrough to Protect the Nation's Children

Jakarta (ANTARA) - General Chairman of the Indonesian Muslim Brotherhood Youth Movement (GP Parmusi), Kifah Gibraltar Bey Fananie, has appreciated the government’s initiative through the Government Regulation on the Governance of Electronic System Operators in Child Protection (PP Tunas) to protect the nation’s future generation.

In an interview with ANTARA in Jakarta on Saturday, Kifah described the regulation as an outstanding breakthrough that demonstrates the government’s direct presence in addressing public concerns about children’s future.

“We greatly appreciate it, and this is a good and revolutionary breakthrough,” Kifah stated.

As a Master’s student in Public Policy and Governance at the University of Indonesia, he highlighted three main strengths of PP Tunas: parental-based consent and monitoring, child privacy data protection equivalent to global regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the United States, and the obligation for digital platforms to conduct self-assessments.

Digital platforms such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, he said, now have the duty to assess the level of content risk to children, ranging from addiction risks, interactions with strangers, psychological impacts, to commercial exploitation.

“Children cannot yet assess what leads them into addiction, or what will have a psychological impact on them,” he emphasised.

Therefore, Kifah suggested returning children’s expression and space for movement to physical activities in the real world to avoid health risks and lack of motor skills development.

“I think children’s expression can also be channelled in playgrounds. Those who initially sit more could move to slides or swings to activate their motor skills,” he continued.

According to him, collaboration between civil society organisations and the government is needed to educate young parents, particularly millennials and Generation Z, to have adequate digital literacy to supervise their children.

“Parents must have digital literacy education, so they know the minimum boundaries or low-risk content classifications for certain child ages,” Kifah stated.

Previously, Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Meutya Hafid emphasised that the Indonesian government will not compromise with digital platforms that fail to comply with the mandate to protect children in the digital space, in line with Government Regulation Number 17 of 2025 on the Protection Governance of Electronic System Operators in Child Protection (PP Tunas).

PP Tunas takes effect from 28 March 2026, and every digital business entity is required to comply with its provisions.