X has 24.85 million customers within the Indonesia. (Representational)

Jakarta:

Indonesia is ready to close down social media platform X if it doesn’t adjust to a regulation barring grownup content material, the nation’s communications minister mentioned on Friday. Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, has strict guidelines that ban the sharing on-line of content material deemed obscene.

Minister Budi Arie Setiadi instructed Reuters he had despatched a warning letter to X associated to this matter.

“We will definitely shut its providers down,” he mentioned, pointing to Indonesia’s digital info and transaction (ITE) regulation that may carry a six-year jail sentence if somebody spreads pornographic content material.

His feedback in an interview come after the social media platform not too long ago up to date its insurance policies to allow consensually produced grownup content material.

X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has not responded to Indonesia’s warning letter, Budi mentioned, including the federal government would ship extra letters earlier than deciding on a possible closure.

X, previously often called Twitter, didn’t instantly reply to a request by Reuters for remark.

Indonesians are large customers of social media and X has 24.85 million customers within the nation, in accordance with information gathering enterprise Statista.

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