The Minister of Communication and Information, Rudiantara, emphasized that the government would not hesitate to close the Facebook platform if the world's largest social media site became a place for spreading false news, as happened to the Rohingya.

"I take a position, I threaten to close Facebook and the government has no doubts if it has to close Facebook if it is used for hoaxes," said Rudiantara at the Ministry of Communication and Information Building, Jakarta, Thursday (5/4) yesterday.

After Facebook admitted to being used as an anti-Rohingya propaganda tool in Myanmar, Rudiantara said he did not want something similar to happen in Indonesia.

In addition, indications of the leakage of one million user data from Indonesia in the Cambridge Analytica case require a cooperative attitude from Facebook in following up on requests from the Ministry of Communication and Information.

Rudiantara said that his party would not just take action to close social media platforms, but through a process and with the right reasons.

Although he assessed that so far, Facebook is among the three platforms that are less cooperative, namely only fulfilling 50 percent of the Ministry of Communication and Information's requests to close content that was considered not according to the norm since two years ago.

"This is what I want to convey to the public, that this is the situation, I personally have no intention of closing anything like that, it must be guarded for the benefit of the state and society," said Rudiantara.

The Minister of Communication and Information emphasized that all social media must be willing to participate in maintaining the stability of the country if they want to do business in Indonesia, if it causes instability in Indonesia, the government will act decisively.

There are also Facebook users in Indonesia who access social media every month more than 115 million people, of the 2.07 billion people who access Facebook every month worldwide.