Supervision Of The Personal Data Protection Act Will Be Under The Auspices Of Kominfo

Director General of Informatics Applications, Kominfo, Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan (doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Draft Law on Personal Data Protection (RUU PDP) contains a clause regarding the protection supervisory agency. Where the supervision will be handled by the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo).

"After becoming a law, we were given two years to adjust, including in the government and regarding this authority institution," said Director General of Information Applications, Kominfo, Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, during the Ngobral ISED webinar "Protecting Digital Footprints and Securing Personal Data" , Thursday, November 19.

The man who is familiarly called Sammy explained that the oversight authority for the Personal Data Protection Act will later be called the Data Protection Authority (DPA). An organization under the auspices of Kominfo.

"This is what we proposed in the Personal Data Protection Bill," said Semuel.

This structure, according to Semuel, is also applied in Malaysia and Singapore, where the supervision of personal data is under the country's communication ministry. The Directorate General of Informatics Applications currently has 20 staff who already have data protection certification, or data protection officers.

If this proposal is accepted, Kominfo will conduct training for these personal data protection officers, who have received certification from Europe, so that implementation is in accordance with the needs in Indonesia. The Personal Data Protection Bill contains the rights and obligations for personal data owners and institutions that collect or process personal data.

"Our bill is 80 percent of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) school, there must be adjustments," said Semuel.

So far, developments regarding the Personal Data Protection Bill are still at the DPR to enter the discussion stage. Semuel stated that of the 300 problem inventory lists or DIM regarding the Personal Data Protection Bill, more than half have been discussed.

The government and the DPR initially targeted the Personal Data Protection Bill to be completed by the end of November. However, if it is not possible to be completed this year, the Personal Data Protection Bill is expected to be completed in early 2021.