The National Child Protection Task Force (PP TUNAS) Should Not Stop at Account Order Operations

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31 Mar 2026 07:38 WIB 31 March 2026 07:38 WIB 5 minutes reading time: 5 minutes 0 read

The National Child Protection Task Force (PP TUNAS) must be more than just account operations. The state is obliged to manage digital platforms to protect children from exploitation and harmful content.

PP TUNAS: Momentum menata platform digital demi melindungi anak dari eksploitasi dan konten negatif. (Source: AI Gemini, Redaksi Literasi Hukum Indonesia)

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Child Protection Is Not a Reason for Reckless Regulation
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Legal Literacy - The state is ultimately entering the digital space further. Through the PP TUNAS (Government Regulation on Child Protection in the Digital Space), the government intends to affirm that children should not be continuously left to be targets of the market, objects of algorithms, and victims of a digital ecosystem that was initially designed to pursue attention, not safety. In principle, this step is correct. For too long, the state has been late in its presence, while platforms have grown faster than the law's ability to regulate them.

Therefore, the basic direction of the PP TUNAS deserves support. The state should not be neutral when children face a digital space full of risks. The state must force platforms to bear the responsibility that has too often been shifted to parents, schools, or users themselves. In this issue, the pretext of platform freedom should not override the best interests of the child.

But precisely because the goal is important, the implementation should not be careless. The PP TUNAS will lose its authority if, in the field, it turns into a mere account control operation. Deactivating a child's account may sound firm, but administrative firmness is not automatically the same as legal protection. The state must not fall into the illusion that the problem is solved simply because a number of accounts have been successfully closed.

The main problem is much bigger. Children not only face access, but also the design of platforms that deliberately make them stay longer, consume more, and find it increasingly difficult to get out of the content cycle. The risks faced are not only about the user's age, but also about data exploitation, exposure to harmful content, manipulation of attention, normalization of symbolic violence, and consumptive impulses disguised as entertainment. If the state is only busy verifying age without daring to correct the platform's business model, then the PP TUNAS will become a policy that appears tough on the surface but soft on the root of the problem.