YouTube will block uploads and comments by Indonesian under-16s – PPC Land

YouTube today told users in Indonesia younger than 16 that they will soon be unable to publish videos or post remarks on the platform, and that the channels, videos and replies they have already put online will stop being visible to anyone else. The notice, written in Indonesian and pinned to the YouTube Help Community forum by Tammy Wi, a community manager, ties the change to Government Regulation No. 17 of 2025 on the governance of electronic systems in child protection – the rule known in Indonesia as PP Tunas. It sets no start date. It lands six months after the regulation took effect on March 28, and five and a half months after Google sent the government a letter committing YouTube to a minimum user age of 16. The stakes extend beyond child safety policy. Indonesia accounted for 3,000 of the 7,600 South-east Asian YouTube channels with more than one million subscribers, according to YouTube data reported by Katadata in June 2025. And the post describes something different from what YouTube said in April, when it told Indonesian users that those under 16 could lose the ability to sign in at all. Today’s wording concerns what those users may
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