The Minister of Communication and Information Brings the Personal Data Protection Bill to the House of Representatives this December

Minister of Communications and Informatics Johnny G. Plate said the Draft Law Personal Data Protection (RUU PDP) will be brought to the DPR no later than the end of December 2019. He targets that the bill can be discussed starting in 2020 so that the regulation can be ratified immediately.

Johnny explained that the government had been preparing for this law for a long time. A number of crucial articles have also received many discussions and revisions, so that the harmonization of 18 ministries and other institutions and both have been understood.

"The manuscript is almost ready to be submitted through the President's mandate to the House of Representatives (DPR)," he said in an official statement.

The preparation of the PDP Bill uses global references, including conventions General Data Protection and Regulations (GDPR) European Union. It explains that data protection is not only limited to individual protection, but also the data sovereignty of a country.

Quote from TirtoPreviously, Johnny targeted that this bill could be discussed starting in January 2020 and if it went well, then this policy could be passed in October 2020. He asked the DPR to include the bill in the 2020 Prolegnas and 2020-2024 Prolegnas.

"I ask the honorable Commission I so that the Law becomes a priority to be completed in a short time," he said during a Hearing Meeting with Commission I of the DPR RI.

The draft bill is said to have been submitted to the State Secretariat, but was returned to Kemenkominfo at the request of the Attorney General's Office and the Ministry of Home Affairs. The two agencies asked for reconsideration of the eight points in the bill.

The eight points cover the right to own personal data, request for personal data, the definition of corporation, the right to object, the principle of personal data protection, and exceptions to processing tools or visual data processing.

Another point, regarding the exclusion of the obligation to control personal data protection and the proposed need for consideration of this bill regulates legal evidence, including electronic devices.

"After the meeting with the Minister (Johnny), the things that have been requested by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Attorney General's Office have been decided. It's just an editorial, it's okay," said Acting Head of the Public Relations Bureau Kemenkominfo Ferdinandus Setu, quoting from Dataword.

The PDP Bill has actually been discussed since 2012. It contains the definition, types, ownership rights, processing, transmission, and the authorized institutions that regulate personal data to sanctions.

Aptika Director Kemenkominfo Samuel Abrijani Pangerapan explained the obstacles faced when discussing the bill were the many regulations related to personal data. "There are 32 regulations, so it's not easy to put them together. We first equate the definitions, which were scattered earlier," he said.