Personal Data Protection Bill, The Government's Efforts To Create Comprehensive Regulations In The Digital Era

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JAKARTA - The Personal Data Protection Bill (RUU PDP) is referred to as the Government's effort to build the most comprehensive basis or rules for safeguarding the personal data of the Indonesian people, especially in the era of technological advancements that make data exchange easier and more unrestricted.

That matter was delivered by the Coordinator of Law and Cooperation of the Directorate General of Aptika, Ministry of Communication and Informatics, Josua Sitompul, then explained that this step was taken by the government to discuss the rules that are considered crucial in the current era of information disclosure.

"If we look at the milestones of personal data protection rules starting from PP 82/2012 which was finally lowered to Ministerial Regulation 20/2016, then continued with PP 71/2019 then. So we can see the Government's national efforts to build a more comprehensive foundation to protect public data", said Josua in a webinar, Wednesday (16/6) night.

There are also things contained in the PDP Bill that explain the philosophical meaning of personal data protection, legal basis, the principle of personal data protection, the concept of the data controller and data processor, the rights of the personal data subject, and the obligations of the data controller and data processor.

If in the previous rules the philosophical meaning of Personal Data Protection (PDP) has been included, in the PDP Bill the meaning The philosophy of the PDP is explained in more depth.

Another example of the most visible difference is the discussion of the obligations of the data controller and data processor.

“In the previous regulation PP 71/2019, the regulation was referred to as governance in electronic systems so that the context is too broad and includes unity that system. But if the PDP Bill relates to the obligations of the data controller and data processor, the obligation of the application manager is not only on the system but actually specifically discusses the protection of personal data," said Josua.

The PDP Bill is also expected to harmonize the presence of laws from each work sector. as adopted by the ITE Law and its derivatives such as the Banking Law, Telecommunications Law, Population Administration Law, and Health Law since 2008.

This hope was conveyed by the Co-Founder of the Indonesian Data Protection Practitioner Association (APPDI) Danny Kobrata who hopes that the presence of the PDP Bill can further strengthen the personal data protection security line in Indonesia.

“With many different sectors such as health, banking, telecommunications. The PDP Bill is expected to harmonize or streamline the use of data so that there is no confusion of cross-sectoral rules and confusion in the community. Of course, with this harmonization, the potential for personal data leakage can be minimized because supervision and law enforcement are carried out at one point and make law enforcement stronger if violations are found", said Danny.

The PDP Bill has been included in the National Legislation Program (Prolegnas) list since 2019, and until June 2021 the draft Law It is hoped that this year will be the last year the PDP Bill is still being discussed.

It is hoped that this year will be the last year that the PDP Bill is discussed and can soon be ratified into law so that the regulation can be more binding on application developers or owners and processors of personal data so as not to violate the data of the Indonesian people.