Jakarta, Feb. 6 -- Deputy Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Nezar Patria urged digital platform providers to develop technological solutions to prevent child users from faking their age in account registration.

According to him, children tend to falsify their age when registering on digital platforms to bypass age restrictions.

"We have been collaborating with several platforms to encourage them to provide technological solutions to address this," he told the press in Jakarta on Friday.

Patria added that several digital platforms are currently testing features to address age fabrication, including age inference methods or behavior-based age detection.

Age inference technology allows a platform's algorithm to analyze a user...