Indonesia plans to extend its ban on social media for under-16s to e-commerce, aiming to protect young people from online scams and unsupervised spending. The move has support from child psychologists but poses compliance challenges.

Indonesia, already leading Southeast Asia’s push to keep children off risky digital platforms with an under-16 social media ban, now wants to extend those protections to e-commerce after officials said young people had become victims of online scams and unsupervised digital spending. The plan has drawn support from child psychologists, who warn of impulsive consumption among young users. However, it also presents e-commerce companies with a difficult compliance test: building age-verification...