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Indonesia summons Meta, TikTok over curbing of

disinformation

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Platforms face penalties for failing to remove harmful

content

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Such content has sparked protests, deep fakes targeting

official

JAKARTA, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Indonesia has summoned

representatives of Meta Platforms Inc ( META ), ByteDance's

TikTok and other social media platforms, ordering them to boost

content moderation as disinformation has spread online, a

government official said on Wednesday.

Such disinformation, particularly on TikTok and Meta's

Instagram, has stoked anger and spurred protests against the

government, deputy communications minister, Angga Raka Prabowo,

told Reuters.

The government will urge the platforms to moderate or remove

such content, as well as anything pertaining to pornography and

online gambling, without waiting for a government request, Angga

said.

"They must comply with the rules because our goal is to

protect this country. Penalties in the rules are reprimands,

fines, temporary suspension, revoking of access or even kicking

them out from a list of registered electronic platforms," he

said.

"The impact (of disinformation) is chaos... And people do

not receive accurate and complete information."

Separate meetings with TikTok and Meta have been scheduled

for later this week and the government will also send an

invitation to Elon Musk's X and YouTube Indonesia, he said.

The companies did not immediately respond to requests for

comment.

TikTok and Instagram each have more than 100 million

accounts based in Indonesia, some of the biggest in the world.

Examples of disinformation included a deep fake video of

Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati saying teachers were a

burden on the country, Angga said.

Some content has mislabelled past footage of riots in

Jakarta as being recent, he said, referring to Monday's

demonstration when hundreds clashed with police and were

arrested, some of them under 18 years old, as they protested

against excessive pay and perks for members of parliament.

The Child Protection Commission reported that some of the

detained youth had joined the protest after watching TikTok

videos calling for demonstrations, Angga said.