Minister Of State Secretary Guarantees Payment ID Protect Personal Data, Not Spying

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JAKARTA - Minister of State Secretary (Mensesneg) Prasetyo Hadi, who is also the Presidential Spokesperson, said Payment ID was subject to rules regarding personal data protection (PDP), and his enthusiasm was not to spy on people's personal transactions.

Prasetyo explained that the supervision implemented in the Payment ID system, one of which is to find out things that are not desirable, such as social assistance that is not on target, the welfare community who have not received assistance from the government, or transactions that then lead to criminal acts such as gambling.

"Don't call it later spying, that's not quite right, but that what needs to be seen is the spirit. Everything that concerns let alone there are transactions that we must then monitor together that the results of the monitor are intended for what is then regulated. Of course, not just any data or any transactions (supervised, ed.), let alone those related to, for example, personal data, there are already rules," said Prasetyo Hadi as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, August 13.

Pras, as he is popularly called, continued the system then used because currently many transactions that lead to criminal activities are difficult to detect with the old surveillance system.

Not only that, the results of monitoring from Payment ID can also be used for repairs, for example in terms of distributing social assistance.

"For example, in terms of distributing social assistance, yes, if the meaning of spying is not then we want to see, not, but the spirit for improvement is that after being mapped, other languages were identified, we found things that shouldn't have happened between brothers and sisters, because they shouldn't be worthy of receiving social rocks, they still accept them," said Prasetyo.

"There were also those who received social assistance, but after being identified earlier, if the language was somewhat cool, they were spying on and found that it was used for other activities such as gambling, right, this is not true. The meaning is there," he continued.

Bank Indonesia emphasized that Payment ID is not used to enter private spaces by checking one by one public financial transactions. Payment ID is fully subject to the principle of confidentiality of personal data as stipulated in the Law on Personal Data Protection (UU PDP).

"That the issue of Bank Indonesia wanting to spy, wanting to know the private space of the individual community, is impossible," said Head of the BI Payment System Policy Department Dicky Kartikoyono, Tuesday (12/8).

The use of Payment ID, said Dicky, is more to find out the economic potential in certain sectors, not target individual transaction activities. Bank Indonesia, he said, is only oriented to the realm of public policy, not to the domain of individuals.

"People'stracking buy shoes, who buys them in cafes, when we do that, BI will not do that. We want to know the growth of the shoe industry, want to know the growth of hotels, restaurants, and cafes, but we will never see individual data," said Dicky.