On behalf of the president of the Republic of Indonesia, we express our deepest gratitude to Commission I of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI) for all the hard work, suggestions, and recommendations that were conveyed during the discus
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Communication and Informatics Minister Johnny G. Plate believes that approval of the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill holds historical significance for Indonesia's digital sector to make it more connected and advanced.

"On behalf of the president of the Republic of Indonesia, we express our deepest gratitude to Commission I of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI) for all the hard work, suggestions, and recommendations that were conveyed during the discussion on the PDP Bill," he remarked in his statement received here on Thursday.

After being discussed in six sitting periods by Commission I of the DPR RI and the government, the bill was finally approved on Wednesday (September 9, 2022) to undergo the second level of discussion at the plenary session of the House.


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All factions from all parties in the commission agreed that the PDP Bill can be discussed further in the plenary session, so it can be ratified into law.

To symbolically show their approval on the bill, representatives from the House as well as the government signed the draft of the bill as well as its explanatory text.

The draft of the PDP Bill contains 16 chapters and 76 articles as well as 371 items of the Problem Inventory List (DIM).

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After being discussed since early 2020, the Indonesian people are finally one step closer to have a regulation on data and privacy protection as well as security.

Hence, the minister welcomed the House’s attempt to ratify the PDP Bill into law, considering that Indonesia recently experienced data leaks due to cyberattacks.

He believed that implementation of a law regulating the protection of personal data will strengthen and facilitate the handling of data leak cases.

Earlier, Head of the DPR Commission I Meutya Hafid expected that the PDP Bill could be ratified into law in September 2022 at the latest.


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