Commission I Of The DPR Urges The Government To Form A Personal Data Protection Agency

JAKARTA - Member of Commission I of the DPR, By Soleh urged the government to form a Personal Data Protection Agency (BPDB) to anticipate challenges that arise due to the development of immitational reason (AI).

"We encourage the government to encourage the establishment of a Personal Data Protection Agency to protect Indonesian public data and provide public protection amid the increasingly massive development of AI," said Soleh to reporters, Friday, February 28.

By saying that Indonesia already has Law Number 27/2022 concerning Personal Data Protection. However, he said, the regulations for implementing this regulation had not yet been made so that personal data protection efforts were still not running optimally.

"This situation is in our view quite urgent if we look at the development of Mind Immitation that is so fast today and triggers many cases of personal data breaches," he said.

By revealing that based on Databooks data in the third quarter of 2022, Indonesia is ranked 3rd as the country with the most data leak cases in the world. In that quarter, Indonesia experienced data leaks of 12,742,031 accounts. The amount of data leakage is arguably very large and embarrassing for the country of Indonesia.

"However, the government is still not responding to this problem, as evidenced by the re-hacking incident on June 20, 2024 yesterday," he said.

By saying that one of the mandates of Law 27/2022 concerning Personal Data Protection is the formation of the Personal Data Protection Agency. However, according to him, the formation of this agency seems to be running on the spot because more than two years from the ratification of the Personal Data Protection Law has not yet been established.

"We hope that the Government will immediately execute the formation of a personal agency protection agency so that efforts to protect personal data in the midst of strong internet penetration can be carried out properly," he said.

By affirming that the formation of this BPDP will function to supervise and regulate the use of personal data and provide education to the public about their rights related to personal information. With this BPDB, it is also to ensure that the use of AI technology is carried out in an ethical manner and in accordance with applicable law.

"The formation of this BPDB is expected to minimize the occurrence of crime in cyberspace," he concluded.