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Balancing Privacy Rights and Legal Enforcement:
Indonesia Practices
Presented at The 2011 IAITL Legal Conference Series
Cyprus: 19-22 September, 2011
Sinta Dewi

Lecturer at Faculty of Law,
Department of Law and Technology
University of Padjadjaran Bandung, Indonesia

Abstract. This paper describes and analyses the regulatory
environment of privacy protection in Indonesia relating to government
legal enforcement, particularly in the corruption and national security
investigation. After the Suharto era, the Indonesian political architecture
became more democratic and privacy conscious. Privacy is protected in
Indonesia as one of the fundamental human rights and is regulated in the
Constitution. However, the increased level of corruption and national
security issues in Indonesia has prompted the government to apply
wiretapping regulation. This paper will discuss the intersection between
privacy protection and government legal enforcement and how far these
two rights could be balanced.

1. Introduction
Since first introduced in United States by Warren and Brandheis in 1890, the
concept privacy as a right to be let alone privacy become a debatable issues due to
the wide range of rights physical privacy in the home or office, the decision relating
reproductive without government interference, freedom from surveillance 1 and
information privacy where involves the storing, collection and handling personal
information. From the European countries approach privacy considered as one of
fundamental human rights. Privacy is well develop in western society because
privacy found in the old social practices in the norms of western societies where
people began to differentiated between public and private realm2.
Although privacy right is a well recognised right, there is still no acceptable
definition of privacy3 due to the wide range of its application. One of the debatable
issues relating to the privacy right in the modern world is the Big Brother metaphor
as depicted by George Orwel’s - a totalitarian government where the government
can constantly monitoring and spying people. One of Big Brother’s methods is
1

James Waldo el al, Engaging Privacy and Information techonogy in A Digital Age, (2007) ,
p. 1.
2 Richard C. Turkington and Anita L. Allen, Privacy Law: Cases and Materials, (1999). P. 3.
3 Raymond Wacks, Privacy a Very Short Introduction , 40 (2010).