Indonesia summons Meta and Google over non-compliance with child social media curbs, minister says

JAKARTA, March 31 (Reuters) – Indonesia summoned officials from Meta and Google over non-compliance with social media restrictions for children under 16 ‌that went into full effect last week, a minister said in ‌a video statement published on Tuesday.

* Indonesia requires social media companies with platformsit deems high ​risk to deactivate accounts belonging to childrenunder 16, under a regulation that went into effect last week. * Meutya Hafid, Indonesia’s Communications and DigitalMinister, said Meta and Google are “two business entities thatare non-compliant with the law” and that ‌they were summoned onMonday to “undergo ⁠checks”. * Failure to implement the curbs may result in sanctions oreven a block on the platform, the ministry has ⁠said. * Meutya said Google and Meta had opposed the curbs from thevery beginning. * Google and Meta did not immediately respond to a requestfor comment on Tuesday. ​Both ​companies said last week they hadput in ​place safeguards…