Lebak Ulama: PP Tunas to Produce a Morally and Character-Building Generation

Lebak (ANTARA) - Charismatic ulama from Lebak Regency, KH Hasan Basri, stated that Government Regulation (PP) No. 17 of 2025 on the Protection of Electronic System Governance in Child Protection (PP Tunas) can produce a generation with morals and character.

“We support the PP Tunas policy by deactivating accounts on high-risk digital platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Bigo Live, and Roblox,” said the leader of the Nurul Hasanah Islamic Boarding School in Cihelang, Rangkasbitung, Lebak Regency, on Saturday.

The government is stepping in to save the nation’s children from moral decadence through policies restricting social media for children under 16 years old.

Previously, many children, including those as young as four, have been addicted to gadgets, exposing them to potentially negative influences.

The social media restrictions proposed by the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs (Komdigi) are one effort to shape the nation’s generation with good morals and character.

This is because negative content on social media can influence their lives, such as engaging in online gambling, pornography sites, free sex, drugs, crime, cyberbullying, and others.

He suggested to the government that children under 16 should not be allowed to use Android handphones.

This is because the use of such devices brings more harm than benefit, as children addicted to social media experience stress, suicide, and even cases of killing their parents inspired by negative content.

Other impacts, he said, include prominent cases of sexual violence in Lebak Regency alone.

These social media restrictions can protect children who need a healthy space to grow, build their self-identity, and form morals and character amid the strong current of digitalisation.

“If children are guided from an early age with strong values, including social media restrictions, they can grow into a generation that is integrous, moral, characterful, and nationalistic,” he explained.