BRI Life Customer Data Leaks, DPR Reminds Against The Ratification Of The PDP Bill

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JAKARTA - Member of the House of Representatives Commission I Christina Aryani urged the government and the council to finalize the discussion and ratification of the Personal Data Protection Bill (PDP), following the leak of BRI Life customer data. Considering that similar incidents are repeated and cases of data leaks are prone to interfere with one's information sovereignty.

"As a member of the PDP RUU Panja, I think that this incident underscores the urgency of the urgency of the Personal Data Protection Bill, which is currently in a 'deadlock' period, to be resolved immediately by finding an appropriate meeting point between the government's wishes and the will of the people represented by the DPR," said Christina, Wednesday, 28 July.

According to this Golkar politician, the cyber security aspect has not received enough attention or serious commitment so that data hacking incidents happen again and again. In fact, data security is related to the country's strong commitment to Cyber Security.

"In addition to not benefiting our position as a sovereign country, including from the perspective of data sovereignty, this incident further shows Indonesia's weak position in the context of protecting its citizens' data," said Christina.

Due to the prevalence of data leakage cases, continued Christina, a solution must be immediately found regarding the supervisory agency for implementing data protection. It seems, he said, that the DPR's argument for an independent data protection agency under the President is very relevant.

"The Ministry of Communication and Information already has a lot of homework which of course needs more attention to implement it," he explained.

Christina also encourages internal BRI Life to immediately take security measures.

"Especially to ensure that customers are protected from derivative crimes as a result of alleged data leaks," he concluded.