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Indonesia’s child-safety rule puts risk filing alongside under-16 deactivation

PP TUNAS requires electronic-system operators to assess and file their child-safety risk profile. Services classified as network and social-media services must deactivate under-16 accounts unless the minister decides otherwise. Komdigi said TikTok had already deactivated about 1.7 million accounts in Indonesia.

22 September 2026 · Indonesia · ASEAN

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Snowflake in ASEAN: The data layer beneath the AI boom

Southeast Asia's AI opportunity is partly constrained by the fragmented data companies are trying to run models on. Snowflake is selling infrastructure for that problem, as firms move from experimenting with AI to putting it into the business.

15 September 2026 · Singapore · Indonesia · Malaysia · Thailand · ASEAN

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AI search visibility is becoming a PR question, not just an SEO task

Generative engine optimisation asks how a brand shows up in AI answers, not only in search rankings. APAC teams should audit GEO visibility, track third party signals and compare how competitors fare in model generated shortlists.

10 September 2026 · Thailand · Indonesia · Philippines · Malaysia · ASEAN · APAC

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Thailand is using AI to test whether its government can work as one

Thailand has opened a prototype that searches across five agency chatbots and returns one cited answer. The challenge sits underneath: whether agencies can make their public information work together and decide who is responsible when those sources disagree.

8 September 2026 · Thailand · ASEAN