JAKARTA - Long holidays often make children spend more time with gadgets, whether it's playing games, watching videos, or surfing social media.
Without adequate supervision, this habit has the potential to make children increasingly dependent on digital devices and reduce direct interaction with the family. Therefore, the holiday season is an important moment for parents to re-organize the pattern of using gadgets while strengthening communication with children.
The Minister of Communication and Information Technology (Menkomdigi) Meutya Hafid invites families to take advantage of the homecoming and Lebaran holidays to strengthen face-to-face interactions between parents and children by reducing the use of gadgets.
According to Meutya, the Lebaran holiday period can be an opportunity for families to build more intense communication in the midst of increasing use of digital technology.
"Use this holiday and homecoming moment to spend as much time as possible with your family. The gadget can be turned off first or at least reduced," said Meutya Hafid in Central Jakarta, Wednesday.
He also reminded that the government is preparing to implement Government Regulation Number 17 of 2025 concerning the Protection of Governance of the Implementation of Electronic Systems in the Protection of Children (PP Tunas) which will take effect on March 28, 2026.
The momentum of the Lebaran holiday, according to him, can be used by parents to start guiding children to reduce their dependence on social media.
"For children under 16 years of age, we are also heading towards the implementation of a policy that will be effective on March 28. From now on, you can start practicing slowly to get out of social media with parental guidance," said Meutya.
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He assessed that changes in habits in the use of digital technology require readiness from families.
Therefore, the role of parents in providing digital literacy to children is very important so that they are able to use technology responsibly and are ready to follow the provisions set out in the PP Tunas.
Open communication between parents and children is considered to facilitate the process.
"Maybe during the Lebaran holiday this is a good time to talk from heart to heart between parents and children to start preparing," he said.
Meutya hopes that the momentum of homecoming and Eid holidays can be used by families to do more activities together, so that children have a greater opportunity to interact directly with their families without relying too much on digital devices.
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