Jakarta, July 5 -- Three out of five children falsify their age to gain access to social media platforms, Indonesia's Deputy Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Nezar Patria said on Sunday, as authorities push ahead with new online child protection rules.

He said the practice poses a major challenge to implementing Government Regulation No. 17 of 2025 on Electronic System Governance for Child Protection (PP TUNAS), as age verification is carried out entirely through systems operated by individual digital platforms.

"A survey shows that out of every five children, three are confirmed to have falsified their age in order to access social media. This has become a common practice," he said on Sunday, citing a government-referenced...