Stuck in Authority Formation
Discussion on the Personal Data Protection bill is slow. The Indonesian government insists that the supervision is under the Ministry of Communication.
Devy Ernis
June 7, 2021
THE meeting on the Personal Data Protection Bill held on Thursday, April 8, proceeded slowly. For one and a half hours, the meeting between the Defense, Foreign Affairs, and Communication and Informatics Commissions at the House of Representative (DPR) and the ministry of communication and informatics had not come to an agreement on the formation of personal data supervisory authority.
“The discussion has yet to reach a common ground becau
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