Health Minister Budi deplored the fraud in the use of the Peduli Lindungi app, which, among other things, is useful for checking vaccination status or COVID-19 test results.

The guideline is expected to support better enforcement of the ITE Law, in particular by prioritizing the approach of restorative justice.

In some countries, defamation laws are used to balance freedom of expression. However, there are two major differences from the Indonesian government’s proposal.

In general, all the provisions in the ITE Law are practically those of cybercrime.

In the past year, the attitude of Indonesian social media users was among the worst in the world, as indicated in an annual survey conducted by Microsoft that was published last week.

Although the formulation of the article on insults or defamation in the ITE Law was meant to protect legal interests, the application of the provision should not deny citizens their freedom of expression and opinion.

Everything that happens virtually reflects the real world. Indonesia’s civility in the virtual world is still low, reflecting our problematic real world.

The transformation manifesto states that the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the transformation of information technology. The changes that have occurred in five years seem to have changed in five months.