Recently, the Indonesian media has raised certain issues related to privacy and personal data in the country; in particular, there are concerns about the implications of European Regulation 679/2016 on General Personal Data Protection for Indonesians. Coupled with the case of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, the news has seized public attention in Indonesia. Since 2008, Indonesia has regulated personal data protection in Article 26 of the Law No. 11 on 2008 concerning electronic information and transaction.
This, in turn, was derived from Article 15 of the Government Regulation on e-System Operating and Transaction and then implemented by the Communication and Informatics Ministry Regulation No. 20 on 2016 about Personal Data Protection in e-System. In the meantime, the Government had also drafted the Bill for Personal Data Protection, a single omnibus law designed to more comprehensively regulate and consolidate those issues; the objective was to prevent the complexity and potential disharmony of various levels of laws in the Indonesian national legal system from being a legal barrier to implementation. To bring clarity to the understanding and protection mechanisms, the authors were called upon to straighten out any existing confusion relating to Indonesian telematics laws or the legal convergence of the country’s information and communication law.
Source: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6265-407-5_6
