TikTok closes 1.7M Indonesian accounts
- TikTok deactivated 1.7 million Indonesian accounts tied to users under 16, after Jakarta began enforcing its new PP Tunas child-safety rules. - The number jumped from about 780,000 on April 10 to 1.7 million by April 28, making TikTok the first platform Indonesia says complied. - At the same time, regulators are probing TikTok Shop’s Tokopedia tie-up, widening scrutiny from child safety to market power.
Social media is the obvious headline here. But the real story is regulation — Indonesia is now testing how hard it can push giant platforms on both child safety and competition at the same time. TikTok just became the clearest example. By April 28, it had shut down 1.7 million Indonesian accounts linked to users under 16 under the country’s new PP Tunas rules, and officials publicly held it up as the first platform to comply. (en.antaranews.com) ### What is PP Tunas? PP Tunas is Indonesia’s child-protection regulation for electronic systems. It took effect on March 28, 2026, and it restricts social-media access for children under 16 while pushing platforms to verify age and remove accounts that break the rule. That matters because Indonesia is (en.antaranews.com)re platform reach is huge. (en.antaranews.com) ### Why does 1.7 million matter? Because the number moved fast. Officials said TikTok had deactivated around 780,000 underage accounts as of April 10. By April 28, that figure had climbed to 1.7 million. That tells you two things at once — first, the government is demanding visible action, and second, T(en.antaranews.com) rose. That second point is an inference, but it fits the timeline. (en.tempo.co) ### Why is TikTok being singled out? Indonesia’s communications minister, Meutya Hafid, framed TikTok as the first electronic-system operator to fully follow the new rule and urged other platforms to disclose their own under-16 takedown numbers. So this is not just about punishing one app. It is also a public benc(en.tempo.co)rt of compliance. (en.antaranews.com) ### Is this only about child safety? No — and that is what makes the story bigger. In parallel, Indonesia’s competition watchdog, KPPU, has opened an investigation into alleged monopolistic behavior tied to TikTok Shop and its integration with Tokopedia. The complaint came from the e-commerce logistics (en.antaranews.com)hether the case moves toward formal examination. (jawawa.id) ### Why does the Tokopedia link matter? Because TikTok is no longer just a video app in Indonesia. After its e-commerce reset, it has been rebuilding commerce through Tokopedia-linked operations, and it just launched TikTok GO by Tokopedia — a service aimed at connecting in-app recommendations to offline local b(jawawa.id) That is exactly the kind of ecosystem growth that tends to attract antitrust attention. (jawawa.id) ### What is Indonesia really testing here? Basically, whether a government can force a platform to behave more like a regulated utility than a move-fast consumer app. Age checks, account removals, transparency demands, ecosystem scrutiny — these are all levers of control. Indonesia is not just asking TikTok to clean up content. It is trying to shape how the company operates in one of its most important markets. (en.antaranews.com) ### What’s the bottom line? The 1.7 million-account purge is the visible part. The deeper shift is that TikTok now faces two overlapping tests in Indonesia — prove it can protect children, and prove its commerce machine is not becoming too powerful. If Jakarta keeps pressing on both fronts, Indonesia co(en.antaranews.com 1)(en.antaranews.com 2)
