TikTok has suspended approximately 9 million child accounts under the age of 16 in Indonesia, and Meta has had over 184,000 child accounts under the age of 16 restricted across Facebook and Instagram, under Indonesia’s online child protection regulation, PP TUNAS.

The number of accounts that were deactivated has increased from around 4.1 million in June, the Communications and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid has said in a statement during the government’s half-year review of policies.

She said that 85,000 were blocked on Instagram and 99,000 on Facebook, also moving 22.5 million minors’ accounts to its Teen Account features, due to the issues.

More than just deactivating accounts, we’re seeing how many of them have been deactivated. Most significantly, we want to gain a sense of how safer platforms have gotten for kids.

That’s why we’re also looking at changes to features, service design and how platforms mitigate risk to their users.

On March 28, the government of Indonesia started enforcing PP TUNAS, which prohibits children under 16 years old from accessing high-risk digital platforms, including platforms that may expose them to harmful content and other online risks.

Meta took “steps to make Instagram and Facebook safer for children,” but they were not considered “enough,” said Meutya, who said Instagram and Facebook continued to be high-risk platforms that must be better protected from harmful content and stranger contact, as well as addiction and risk to children’s physical and mental health.

The government was also waiting for Meta’s report on underage accounts and risk mitigation on Threads, she said.