<![CDATA[The development of information and communication technology has led to a significant increase in children’s use of social media, which on the one hand provides educational benefits, but on the other hand poses various risks of violations of children’s rights in the digital sphere. This condition requires the presence of adequate and adaptive legal protection, while the legal framework in Indonesia still shows a normative vacuum, particularly regarding the minimum age limit for social media users. This study aims to analyze the legal regulation of child protection for social media users in Indonesia and to formulate an ideal legal regulatory concept to ensure the best interests of the child. This research is based on the theory of legal protection and the principle of the best interests of the child, employing a normative legal research method through conceptual and comparative approaches, supported by a literature review of primary, secondary, and tertiary legal materials. The results indicate that although Indonesia has enacted the Child Protection Law, the Electronic Information and Transactions Law, and the Personal Data Protection Law, these regulations do not explicitly regulate the minimum age of children as social media users, resulting in legal protection that remains general and reactive in nature. The discussion emphasizes that this normative vacuum has implications for weak legal certainty and the effectiveness of child protection in the digital environment, while placing greater responsibility for protection on the internal policies of social media platforms. This study concludes that more specific and comprehensive legal regulations regarding children’s use of social media, including the establishment of a minimum age limit, are necessary as a preventive measure to strengthen child legal protection in Indonesia.]]>
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