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        "msgid": "neurorights-why-minister-pigai-wants-it-in-human-rights-bill-1788184230",
        "date": "2026-08-31 20:31:05",
        "title": "Neurorights: Why Minister Pigai Wants It in Human Rights Bill",
        "author": "",
        "source": "TEMPO_EN",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Legal",
        "summary": "Human Rights Minister Natalius Pigai has proposed including neurorights protections in Indonesia's Human Rights Bill to address emerging threats from artificial intelligence and neurotechnology. He argues that legal safeguards are needed to prevent violations such as the theft of mental privacy as neurochip technology advances. The ministry is positioning this as part of technocratic planning for future human rights challenges rather than a response to existing violations.",
        "content": "<p>Neurorights: Why Minister Pigai Wants It in Human Rights Bill<\/p>\n<p>Reporter<\/p>\n<p>August 31, 2026 | 08:31 pm<\/p>\n<p>TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Human Rights Minister Natalius Pigai backs the\nadoption of neurorights protection, or the right to mental privacy,\nunder the Human Rights Bill as an anticipatory measure in response to\nadvances in artificial intelligence (AI) and neurotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>Pigai said the government must anticipate technological developments\nbecause advances in neurotechnology have the potential to create new\nforms of human rights violations, including violations involving privacy\nand the human mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere needs to be a law regulating this in the Human Rights Bill.\nOne article on neurotechnology protection,\u201d Pigai said while presenting\nhis policy direction on Monday, as quoted from Antara.<\/p>\n<p>He said neurochip technology could grow more advanced in recording or\nprocessing information about a person\u2019s condition. According to him,\nthis must be accompanied by legal instruments capable of protecting\nindividual rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy thoughts could be stolen by other people. So there needs to be a\nlaw protecting against neurological theft, because neurotechnology today\nis more advanced,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He considered neurorights protection part of the ministry\u2019s efforts\nto anticipate forms of rights violations that may emerge alongside\ntechnological development, rather than merely responding to human rights\nissues that have already occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Pigai said the ministry does not act as fortune-tellers or\nfuturologists but as technocratic planners for human rights development,\ndesigning policies for economic, social and cultural rights based on\nprojections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if, say, we project that by 2050 the economic, social and\ncultural conditions will be like this, then the technocratic planning\nprojection must be designed accordingly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Pigai added that national development technocratic planning falls\nunder the authority of the National Development Planning Ministry\n(Bappenas).<\/p>\n<p>The ministry will also incorporate that perspective into the National\nHuman Rights Development Planning Deliberation (Musrenbang).<\/p>\n<p>Read: Komnas HAM Forms Ad Hoc Team to Investigate July 27, 1996\nIncident<\/p>\n<p>Click here to get the latest news updates from Tempo on Google\nNews<\/p>",
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