Meta's Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have joined Indonesia's new licensing rules for tech companies, government documents showed on Tuesday, a day ahead of the compliance or lockdown deadline. Registration is required under rules published in late 2020, which would give authorities sweeping powers to force platforms to release specific users' data and remove content deemed illegal or "disturbing public order" within four months hours in an emergency and otherwise within 24 hours. . Communications Ministry records of foreign providers showed that meta entities were signed up Tuesday, but Twitter was not among the signups.
Among the Alphabet entities, which include YouTube and Google, only Google's cloud services were registered, according to Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, a senior ministry official Tuesday.
Google, Twitter and Facebook did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
With a young and tech-savvy population of 270 million, Indonesia is one of the top 10 markets by user count for a variety of social media companies including Twitter, Facebook and TikTok.Bytedance.
TikTok had already signed up, as had streaming services Netflix, Spotify, the records say.
Semuel said companies that don't comply would lose in the long run and would be reprimanded, fined and then potentially blocked in Indonesia.
However, he added that platforms have an opportunity to reverse this trend if they decide to register later.
"If they don't sign up, it's their loss. That means they don't see Indonesia as their potential market," he told a news conference.
Last week, American company Mastercard partnered with crypto gateway provider Fasset to jointly develop digital solutions to increase crypto adoption in Indonesia. The collaboration between Mastercard and Fasset aims to promote financial inclusion in Indonesia and ensure that 92 million of its unbanked citizens are part of the existing financial system.
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