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House drops fast-tracking of data protection bill
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Indonesia has yet to join the club of nations from Brazil to China and India that have issued stringent regulations on personal data protection, modeled on the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which protects citizens from privacy and data breaches regardless of where the data is processed and which recognizes citizens’ “right to be forgotten”, so users can ask for data erasure and delisting from digital platforms and search engines. (Shutterstock/PopTika)
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he House of Representatives is running behind schedule to conclude deliberations on a much-anticipated bill on personal data protection this month, despite growing concerns of online vulnerabilities and a self-made promise to speed up passage of the legislation.
Lawmakers have given up on fast-tracking the legislation process during the current House sitting session that began on Nov. 9 and ends on Dec. 15.
Up until the second week of November, legislators had only been able to go through 12 of the 180 points flagged in the inventory of concerns (DIM), said Abdul Kharis Almasyhari, deputy chairman of House Commission I overseeing defense and information.
Progress became even more sluggish due to the House recess period between Oct. 6 and Nov. 8.
“Looking at the progress, we think it’s impossible for us to conclude the deliberation of the bill with the government this month,” Abdul told The Jakarta Post recently.
Lawmakers first submitted the DIM – that is, a list of inputs from all nine political party factions at the House for drafting the bill – to the government in early February. It adopted and included principles laid out in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in five key areas, including data security and data breaches.
The GDPR is considered a golden standard for personal data protection worldwide, although other standards are also referenced in the legislation drafting process.
