Jakarta: Indonesia has initiated data security discussions among G20 member countries, through the Digital Economy Working Group of Indonesia’s G20 Presidency in 2022.
Indonesia emphasizes the issue of cross-border data flow and the free flow of data with confidence to show the important role of data in harnessing digital economic opportunities with the principles of transparency, legitimacy, transparency. equity and reciprocity.
Communication and IT Minister Budi Arie Setiadi said the issue of data sovereignty amid the global digital transformation is of significant importance. According to him, Indonesia should pay attention to data sovereignty.
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“Because our financial data is vital, every country in the world, when there is something, must see the financial data. We must know the clean pockets, other countries do not know,” he said. said at the Chairul Tanjung Way Beyond Politics panel session at XXI Plaza Indonesia, Central Jakarta on Sunday, August 27, 2023.
Financial data is important for every country. This is why the government stresses the importance of protecting the financial data of the State. Budi highlighted the importance of data security as one of the three issues discussed in the Digital Economy Task Force of India’s G20 Presidency in 2023.
“The first is digital infrastructure; the second is to develop digital talents in order to improve the digital skills of the whole community; and the third thing that’s important is security in the digital economy, security is about data sovereignty,” he said.
According to the Minister of Communication and Information on data security between countries, during India’s G20 Presidency in 2023, the Japanese government came up with the concept of free flow of data with trust or exchange of trust-based data. Budi said the concept was in line with the Indonesian proposal from the previous meeting.
“Japan offers the free flow of data with confidence. So the data flows freely, but we want to use it in the same way (based on) trust, because Japan is still ahead of several countries because they have value, like Asia and the Is,” he said.
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