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View all search resultsBy prioritizing the commercial "free flow" of information, the Indonesia-US trade deal threatens to transform personal data from a constitutional right into a mere commodity, leaving Indonesian citizens vulnerable in a regulatory vacuum.
As the clock ticks ever closer to the October deadline for establishing a cyber privacy agency, a new hacking incident on a civil service database has allegedly posted millions of stolen data for sale on the dark web.
In past cases of data theft, there were few immediate consequences, such as when the account details of 15 million customers of the country's biggest Islamic lender, Bank Syariah Indonesia (BSI), were published online last year or when, in 2021, a flaw in the Health Ministry's COVID-19 app exposed the personal data and health status of 1.3 million people.
The government was rightly hailed for passing the 2022 data protection law, but as the country continues in its digital transformation and the world whirls amid rapid technological advancements, the next administration needs to take a wider look, including national security, at guaranteeing data privacy as a fundamental right.
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