Jakarta, Feb. 4 -- The Indonesian Deputy Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs, Nezar Patria, urged digital platforms to implement behavior-based age detection systems to prevent children from falsifying their age during registration.

He noted that mature content easily reaches children's feeds due to loopholes in current age verification systems.

"When children fake their age, the system treats them as adults. This leaves them wide open to adult content and even sexually explicit material," he said during a discussion in Jakarta on Tuesday.

To this end, digital platforms are encouraged to move beyond self-declared birth dates and begin implementing behavior-based age detection technology.

The Ministry of Communication and Dig...