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Starting July 1, 2026, New SIM Card Registration Must Use Face Recognition
9+ hour, 39+ min ago (319+ words) JAKARTA - The Ministry of Communication and Digital announced that the biometric registration system based on face recognition for the new SIM card will be fully implemented, starting July 1, 2026. Director General of Digital Ecosystems Komdigi, Edwin Hidayat Abdullah, said that biometric…...
ATSI Supports Discourse on Social Media Accounts Connected to Phone Numbers
7+ hour, 39+ min ago (239+ words) JAKARTA - The Association of All Indonesian Telecommunications Operators (ATSI) supports the government's discourse that will require social media accounts to be connected to phone numbers. Previously, in a meeting with the DPR Commission I, Minister of Communication and Digital Meutya…...
What Exactly Are You Sharing on Social Media?
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (249+ words) "For most of us, scrolling through a social media timeline has become an unconscious reflex in the midst of daily activities. We share photos of weekend vacations, mark the location of a newly visited aesthetic restaurant, or just interact through…...
WA Business Error, Users Can't Hear Voice When Making Calls
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (211+ words) JAKARTA - The instant messaging service Whats App Business is reported to have experienced an outage on Thursday, May 28, where the outage occurred when making a voice call or video call. This disruption not only affects Indonesian users, but also globally....
Digital Market in Indonesia Grows, Bamsoet Encourages China to Build Data Center
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (507+ words) JAKARTA - Bambang Soesatyo (Bamsoet) encourages Chinese investors to enter the data center project in Indonesia. According to Bamsoet, Indonesia's growing digital market must be followed by the development of cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, and data storage. Bamsoet conveyed this encouragement…...
Social Media Algorithms Are a New Form of Digital Colonization
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (473+ words) JAKARTA - Deputy Minister of "Communication and Digital (Wamenkomdigi) Nezar Patria reminded the younger generation of Indonesia about the new threats in the digital era, namely the dominance of algorithms which are considered to have become a new form of modern…...
Whats App is preparing a "Burn After Reading" feature, chats can disappear automatically after being read
1+ week, 1+ day ago (530+ words) JAKARTA - Whats App is developing a new privacy feature that allows messages to be automatically deleted after the recipient reads them. The feature, dubbed by many observers as "burn after reading", is said to be being tested on both i…...
Lesti Kejora warns after being named for fraud on Tik Tok
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (350+ words) JAKARTA - Singer Lesti Kejora has brought bad news. The big name of Rizky Billar's wife is suspected of being hacked by irresponsible parties on the Tik Tok platform to carry out fraudulent actions by asking for people's personal data. Through…...
Texas Sues Meta and Whats App over False Encryption Claims
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (159+ words) JAKARTA - The Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, has filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms and Whats App with the allegation that messages sent through the service are actually not encrypted and the application's employees can access user communications. "Attorney…...
Smartphone Market is Sluggish, AI Phones Actually Soared 320 Percent
6+ day, 14+ hour ago (279+ words) JAKARTA - The global smartphone market is declining. However, AI-based mobile phones are soaring sharply. According to a report by China Daily, which quoted data from Canalys, a global technology market research company from Singapore, worldwide shipments of AI mobile phones…...