Chinese video app Tik Tok to set up Indonesia censor team to overturn ban: report

Visitors are seen at the booth of Bytedance Technology, which owns news aggregator app Jinri Toutiao and short video app Tik Tok, or Douyin, at the China International Software Expo in Beijing, China June 29, 2018. Picture taken June 29, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. CHINA OUT.

JAKARTA: Chinese video app Tik Tok, the most downloaded app globally on Apple Inc's app store in January-March, will set up a team of censors in Indonesia to overturn a ban imposed for "inappropriate content", local media reported on July 5.

The app is popular among young people for its homemade music videos. But access was blocked on July 3 by authorities in Indonesia, home to the world's biggest Muslim population, for featuring content deemed pornographic and blasphemous.