JAKARTA - The Ministry of Home Affairs has suggested providing incentives to local governments that are considered active in implementing child protection policies, to support the implementation of Government Regulation Number 17 of 2025 (PP TUNAS).
Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian said that the award in addition to the charter is expected to be a motivation for local governments in protecting children under 16 years of age from exposure to harmful content in the digital space.
"The good thing is, yes, we will give rewards. The Ministry of Home Affairs has also prepared a budget. It can also be regional incentive funds, we can give it," said the Minister of Home Affairs in a Coordination Meeting for the Acceleration of the Implementation of PP Tunas with the Minister of Communication and Digital Meutya Hafid on Wednesday, March 11.
He also stated that the Central Government would monitor, supervise, and evaluate the regional governments that implement PP Tunas in their respective areas.
Not only incentives, the Ministry of Home Affairs is also considering drafting a special index to measure the level of concern of local governments in protecting children from the negative impact of electronic systems.
"The index of regions that care about child protection from the dangers or negative impacts of electronic systems. Well, automatically those regions will compete. He doesn't want to be in the lower position," he said.
In its implementation, the Ministry of Home Affairs will work with a number of key regional organizations, such as the communication and information technology service, the education service, and the women's empowerment and child protection service.
Previously, the Government officially issued Regulation of the Minister of Communication and Digital Number 9 of 2026 as the implementation rules of Government Regulation Number 17 of 2025 concerning the Governance of the Implementation of Electronic Systems in the Protection of Children (PP TUNAS). The implementation of these two regulations will take effect on March 28.
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