{"id":29970,"date":"2025-08-30T23:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=29970"},"modified":"2025-08-30T23:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:34:55","slug":"tiktok-says-live-feature-temporarily-suspended-in-indonesia-over-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/tiktok-says-live-feature-temporarily-suspended-in-indonesia-over-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok says live feature temporarily suspended in Indonesia over protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Social media platform TikTok announced on Saturday that it has temporarily suspended its live feature in Indonesia for &#8220;a few days&#8221; because of violent protests after the death of a man hit by a police vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Due to escalating violence during protests in Indonesia, we have voluntarily introduced additional safeguards to keep TikTok a safe and civil space,&#8221; a TikTok spokesperson told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of an abundance of caution, TikTok LIVE is temporarily suspended for a few days in Indonesia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Southeast Asia&#8217;s biggest economy was rocked by protests in major cities on Friday, including capital Jakarta and the eastern city of Makassar where a blaze at a local council building killed three people.<\/p>\n<p>Protests continued on Saturday in Surabaya city on main island Java, as well as on the islands of Bali and Lombok.<\/p>\n<p>The video-sharing app said it would continue to monitor the situation closely.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has one of the world&#8217;s biggest audiences on TikTok, with more than 100 million users.<\/p>\n<p>In some videos of the protests posted on the service on Saturday, users complained they could not use the live feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platform TikTok announced on Saturday that it has temporarily suspended its live feature in Indonesia for &#8220;a few days&#8221; because of violent protests after the death of a man hit by a police vehicle. &#8220;Due to escalating violence during protests in Indonesia, we have voluntarily introduced additional safeguards to keep TikTok a safe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29971,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29970\/revisions\/29971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}