The businesses – grouped under the Indonesian Hospital Association (PERSI), the Indonesian E-Commerce Association (idEA), the Association of Indonesian Financial Technology (Aftech) and the US-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) – expressed their concerns in a hearing on the bill with House Commission I overseeing defense, foreign affairs, information and intelligence on Monday.

"We must distinguish aggregate data and individual data. Aggregate data is unidentified, unlike individual data. Unidentified data should be excluded from this regulation,” Bima Laga of idEA said.

Budi Sampurna of PERSI echoed Bima’s sentiments, saying that hospitals normally classed anonymized behavioral data of their patients as impersonal data.

He added that all patient personal data should be considered confidential, which could not be transmitted or opened without the patient's consent, except under certain circumstances.

          Lawmakers questioned the businesses' arguments for excluding anonymized data from the bill, saying that companies should get the data holders’ permission to use such data to create behavioral profiles.

"We understand the businesses' concerns, but for me, whatever the purposes are, they should have the owner’s consent," Charles Honoris of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) said.

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