The Ministry of Communications and Informatics has submitted a Government Regulation Plan (RPP) for the Personal Data Protection Law (PDP) which is targeted for completion in July 2024.

This derivative regulation will serve as a guide for the implementation of Law No. 27/2022 on Personal Data Protection, which was ratified in September 2022.

"Regarding the RPP PDP, today there has been a kick off meeting with all government stakeholders. The regulation is expected to be completed in July," Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, Director General of Informatics Applications, said on Friday, March 15, 2024.

Then, the Presidential Regulation regarding PDP institutions is also targeted to be completed simultaneously. Meanwhile, the PDP Law regulates administrative sanctions for data controllers who violate them.

However, companies that experience data leaks are not subject to sanctions at this time. Because, the PDP Law will take effect 2 years after it is promulgated, to be precise in September or October this year.

In this law, a personal data controller is any person or public body or international organization that acts individually or jointly in determining the purposes and exercising control over the processing of personal data.

In this way, administrative sanctions also apply to corporations and ministries or institutions that determine the purposes and exercise control over the processing of personal data.

Furthermore, Semuel also explained that companies that manage people's personal data will be subject to a fine of 2 percent of their annual income, if they experience a data leak as regulated in Article 57.

Apart from that, the sanctions given to companies will apply in stages. Several forms of sanctions are imposed, such as written warnings, temporary suspension of personal data processing activities, deletion or destruction of personal data, and administrative fines.

"Administrative sanctions are in the form of fines of a maximum of 2 percent of annual income or annual receipts for variable violations," Semuel said.