Jakarta, Feb. 15 -- Parents have an important role to play in ensuring the safe use of digital technology by children, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology stated here on Thursday.

"The Directorate General of Teachers and Education Personnel sees the important role of parents in ensuring safety in the increasingly massive use of digital technology by children," the ministry's Director General of Teachers and Education Personnel, Nunuk Suryani, remarked here on Thursday.

According to Suryani, parents need to pay attention to the security and certainty of information obtained through technology, as it affects children who study in schools.

"This must be done because the certainty of information and knowledge (prov...