The Highly-Awaited Indonesian Personal Data Protection Law Is Passed

After about seven years in the making, on September 20, 2022, the Parliament finally approved the Personal Data Personal Data Protection Bill (the "PDP Bill") during the 5^th Plenary Session of 2022-2023 of the Parliament.

In the age where personal data processing activities seem inevitable, the PDP Bill is expected to be the cornerstone and centerpiece of Indonesia's personal data protection regulatory framework. The PDP Bill will serve as an "umbrella" regulation for all personal data processing activities horizontally across all sectors while still allow flexibility for each sector to tailor a specific regulation according to each sectoral characteristic.

At present, the approved version of the PDP Bill has not been circulated publicly. Nevertheless, based on the latest publicly available PDP Bill on September 20, 2022, we note that the PDP Bill will adopt similar concepts found in a more-mature data protection regime (e.g., the European Union's General Data