President Jokowi Signs The Second Revision Of The ITE Law

The photo archive - Screenshot of President Jokowi delivered a virtual speech at an online seminar, monitored in Jakarta, Wednesday (15/9). (ANTARA/Indra Arief)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo signed Law Number 1 of 2024 concerning the Second Amendment to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE). Reporting from Antara, the signing of the law was carried out by Jokowi in Jakarta dated January 2, 2024 and promulgated by Minister of State Secretary Pratikno on the same date. With the signing, the ITE Law, which is the result of the revision or the second amendment, comes into effect. In a copy of the ITE Law seen on the jdih.setneg.go.id page, there are several changes in the ITE Law, including article 27. Article 27 of the new ITE Law states that which includes acts prohibited in the ITE Law, namely anyone who intentionally and without the right to broadcast, shows them, distributes, transmits, and/or makes accessible electronic information and/or electronic documents that have content that violates decency to be known to the public. In addition, every person who intentionally and without rights distributes, transmits, and/or makes accessible electronic information and/or electronic documents that have gambling content. The government and the DPR also inserted two articles between article 27 and article 28, namely article 27A and Article 27B. Article 27A reads that everyone deliberately attacks the honor or good name of another person by accusing something of something, with the intention that it is known to the public in the form of electronic information and/or electronic documents carried out through an electronic system. Article 27B paragraph (1) reads that everyone intentionally and without rights distributes and/or transmits electronic information and/or electronic documents, with the intention of unlawfully benefiting themselves or others, forcing people with threats of violence to: a. Providing an item, which partly or entirely belongs to the person or belonging to someone else; or b. Give debts, make debts or write off receivables. Article 2B paragraph (2) reads that everyone intentionally and without rights distributes and/or transmits electronic information and/or electronic documents with the intention of unlawfully benefiting themselves or others with the threat of pollution or with threats of disclosing secrets, forcing people to: a. Providing an item that partly or entirely belongs to the person or belonging to someone else; or b. Give debts, make debts or write off receivables. Previously, the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia (DPR RI) had officially ratified the Draft Law on the Second Amendment to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Information and Electronic Transactions (ITE) at the 10th DPR RI Plenary Meeting during Session II for the 2023-2024 Period.

The ratification was marked by the tightening of the hammer by the Deputy Speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives Lodewijk Freidrich Paulus after the members of the session fully agreed with the bill. The public can download a copy of the ITE Law on the jdih.setneg.go.id page.