TikTok Closes 1.7 Million Children's Accounts in Indonesia
TikTok has become the first Electronic System Operator (PSE) in Indonesia to fulfil its obligations under PP Tunas to protect children in the digital space. TikTok has closed 1.7 million children’s accounts.
Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs (Menkomdigi) Meutya Hafid has commended TikTok’s actions. She stated that in the future, the platform plans to implement PP Tunas more extensively. PP Tunas is Government Regulation Number 17 of 2025 on the Protection and Governance of Electronic System Operators in Child Protection, which has been effective since 28 March 2026.
“TikTok is the first to report the deactivation figures and the first to demonstrate that commitment is accompanied by concrete, transparent steps communicated to the public through the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs,” said Meutya during a press conference on Tuesday (28/4/2026).
In a meeting between TikTok and the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs, it was reported that TikTok had closed 1.7 million children’s accounts as of 28 April 2026. This number has increased rapidly from 10 April 2026, when TikTok had closed 780,000 children’s accounts.
The deactivation of children’s accounts has indeed impacted some adult users’ TikTok accounts, but Meutya hopes the public can support this step to protect the nation’s future generations.
“There may have been some disruptions yesterday, which I ask to be understood, as this is also for the protection of our children,” said Meutya.
TikTok informed Meutya that adult account users affected by the child account deactivation measures can appeal to have their accounts normalised as soon as possible.
In addition to reporting the deactivation figures for accounts of children under 16 years old, Meutya said that TikTok has also submitted a more detailed and measurable compliance action plan for the future.
Not only regarding compliance with PP Tunas, in that meeting, TikTok, represented by Vice President of Global Public Policy TikTok Helena Lersch, expressed commitment to addressing digital crimes targeting Indonesia, such as online gambling, more extensively on its platform. Meutya stated that PP Tunas is a regulation that applies to all PSE in Indonesia, whether global or local scale.
Therefore, concrete steps like those taken by TikTok are expected to be reported soon by other PSE and not stop at mere commitments. “We also jointly urge platforms that have stated their compliance commitments not to stop at just compliance commitments but to immediately report the concrete steps each platform has taken to the Indonesian public through the Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs,” Meutya emphasised.