DPR Legislation Committee Agrees to Bring One Data Bill to Plenary, Set for Ratification Tomorrow
The Legislative Committee (Baleg) of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI), in collaboration with the government, has agreed to bring the Draft Law on One Data Indonesia (SDI) to the plenary session. The Bill is expected to be ratified into law during tomorrow’s plenary.
The decision-making meeting for the One Data Indonesia Bill took place at the Baleg room, DPR RI building, Senayan, Jakarta, on Monday (5/10/2026). The meeting was attended by the Head of Bappenas, Rahmat Pambudy; Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Bima Arya Sugiarto; Deputy Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs, Nezar Patria; Deputy Minister of PAN-RB, Purwadi Arianto; and Deputy Minister of State Secretary, Bambang Eko Suhariyanto.
The Chairperson of the Working Group for the One Data Indonesia Bill, Sturman Panjaitan, stated that the Bill consists of 20 chapters and contains 141 articles. The SDI Bill is an initiative of the DPR RI.
“The SDI Draft Law is an initiative of the DPR RI, so during the first-level discussions, the List of Problem Inventories (DIM) was submitted by the government. The number of DIMs submitted by the government totalled 1,338 for the main body and 829 for the explanations,” Sturman said during the meeting.
The Chairperson of the DPR Legislation Committee, Bob Hasan, then invited each faction in the DPR to express their opinions regarding the One Data Indonesia Bill. He also requested the approval of the Council members to proceed with the Level I decision regarding the Bill.
“After we have collectively listened to the final opinions of the mini-factions and the government, we now request the meeting’s approval as to whether the results of the One Data Indonesia Bill discussions can be processed further in accordance with the prevailing laws and regulations,” said Bob Hasan, which was met with approval from the meeting participants.
The following are the key points of the SDI Draft Law presented by Sturman Panjaitan:
A. Regulation of National Basic Data (DDN) controlled by the state as the primary reference for development planning, fiscal policy and budgeting, social assistance distribution, and other national strategic needs, including the criteria for establishing six clusters and the classification of open, limited, and closed data.
B. Regulation of SDI governance through the SDI Master Plan, SDI Architecture, SDI Management, and SDI Cycle, coordinated by a Minister, including the determination of national priority data.
C. Institutional strengthening through the formation of SDI organisers reporting to the President, replacing the One Data Indonesia Agency with a coordinative, normative, and facilitative role in coordinating data supervisors, data producers, and data custodians.
D. Regulation of the division of authority between the central government, regional governments, and village/sub-district governments in producing and managing data, including village data deliberations as a participatory forum to agree on village data.
E. Regulation of data supervisors, data producers, and data custodians across levels from national to village/sub-district and corporations, as well as data users and their obligations.
F. Regulation of data standards, metadata, reference codes and/or master data, and a national data catalogue system that must be implemented by all data producers and custodians without centralising data control in a single institution.
G. Regulation of SDI infrastructure and risk management, including the use of digital technology, blockchain, and artificial intelligence to ensure national data sovereignty, traceability, and human oversight.
H. Regulation of data interoperability implemented without centralising physical databases and without transferring ownership, control, or management responsibility from the data producers.
I. Regulation of data usage and access control, including the imposition of fees for access to limited data as non-tax state revenue, and the requirement for parliamentary approval for the access and transfer of closed data outside Indonesian jurisdiction.
J. Strengthening of data security and protection through security standards implemented by cyber and cryptography agencies, cryptographic infrastructure, digital certificate management systems, security and data sovereignty audits, and incident reporting within a maximum of 24 hours.
K. Regulation of funding, incentives, guidance, supervision, evaluation, and accountability, including the submission of oversight reports by organisers to the President and the DPR.
L. Strengthening public participation in SDI implementation, including providing input, reporting suspected data misuse, participatory oversight, and voluntary data contributions.
M. Regulation of dispute resolution mechanisms prioritising non-litigation methods, with a mediation period of a maximum of 14 working days, extendable by another 14 working days.
N. Regulation of administrative sanctions, criminal provisions, and transitional provisions to ensure compliance and the sustainability of SDI implementation, including the removal of certain prohibitions which are formulated into criminal provisions.
O. Formation of the organisers within a maximum of one year and the adjustment of SDI systems and infrastructure based on the regulations of Presidential Regulation Number 39 of 2019 concerning One Data Indonesia.