Mahfud MD: The President Has Sent A Surpres To The ITE Amendment Bill To The DPR

Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD/Antara

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD said President Joko Widodo had sent a presidential letter related to the Second Amendment Bill to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions to the DPR. The Presidential Letter (Surpres) has been sent to the DPR RI on December 16, 2021," Mahfud said in a press release, in Jakarta, Friday, December 24. The Bill on the Second Amendment to Law no. 11/2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE) and attach a document of the draft bill.

In the contents of the letter, in addition to submitting the bill, he said, so that the bill was immediately discussed in the DPR RI session to get approval with top priority. Law and Human Rights to represent the government in discussing the bill.

The government will revise the ITE Law on a limited basis with regard to substance. There are four articles that will be revised, namely articles 27, 28, 29, and 36. In addition to the revision of the four articles, he said, there will be the addition of a new article in the revision of the ITE Law, namely Article 45C.