This week, content circulated on Facebook's timeline stating that this social media would be blocked or closed in Indonesia on April 24, 2018. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology finally spoke up about this news, and stated that it was fake news or a hoax.
The Director General of Informatics Applications at the Ministry of Communications and Informatics, Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, confirmed that the news that Internet access to Facebook would be closed on April 24 was false news. "It must be a hoax. Fake news," said Semuel to the coil (kumparan.com), Friday (20/4).
In spreading this hoax, the perpetrators used a photo that seemed to be the headline of a newspaper with the headline "FB Indonesia will be shut down." The perpetrator then added the caption text: "April 24, 2018 at 00.00 WIB."

There is also a user status update stating the same thing and until now it has been viral on Facebook, as shown below:
Facebook blocked
Semuel said the viral picture above does not clearly show the origins of the media and the source of the news.
The Ministry of Communication and Information, as the regulator of Internet content in Indonesia, has never stated that it will block Facebook on April 24.
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Semuel said the Ministry of Communication and Informatics would indeed take firm steps to block Facebook if it was found that Facebook violated the law that harmed users in Indonesia in the case of data misuse by political consultant Cambridge Analytica to win Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election.
"Like Minister Rudiantara's statement, (Facebook) will be temporarily blocked if there are findings of violation of the law or harm to Indonesian Facebook users," said Semuel.

Facebook given until April 26
Facebook is currently being hit by a problem because there is a case of data misuse by Cambridge Analytica. The Ministry of Communication and Information has sent a second warning letter asking Facebook to submit the results of an audit of data misused by Cambridge Analytica, along with the Indonesian users who were affected.
Facebook Indonesia is given until April 26 to submit the results of the audit.
Facebook Indonesia management asked the government for time so that they first coordinate with Facebook management in the region.

This data misuse is not only carried out by Cambridge Analytica, but the Ministry of Communication and Information also mentions that there are CubeYou and Aggregate IQ institutions that collect Facebook user data and then misuse it.

Cambridge Analytica Case
Cambridge Analytica collects Facebook user data through the psychological test quiz application This Is Your Digital Life, created by Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan.
Through This Is Your Digital Life, Kogan managed to collect more than 50 million data in the form of likes, interests, user's birth date, to location. This data was then handed over to Cambridge Analytica by Kogan.
The British political consultant then used data such as likes, location, date of birth of users, to target political advertisements aimed at improving Donald Trump's reputation and bringing down political opponents.
INA Facebook Public Policy, Ruben Hattari.

INA Facebook Public Policy, Ruben Hattari. (Photo: Iqbal Firdaus/coil)
Facebook apologizes for the misuse of this data and promises to make improvements to privacy and promises to limit access rights for third-party applications that want to retrieve Facebook user data.
Ruben Hattari, Head of Public Policy at Facebook Indonesia, said there are around 748 Facebook users in Indonesia who have installed the This is Your Digital Life application. The application has been closed by Facebook since 2015.