Plenary Session Approves Revision of Population Administration Law as DPR Initiative Proposal

The House of Representatives (DPR RI) has agreed that the Bill on the Amendment of Law Number 23 of 2006 on Population Administration be approved as a DPR initiative bill. The decision was taken during a plenary session of the House.

The plenary session was held at the parliamentary complex in Senayan, Jakarta, on Thursday (8/9/2026), with 151 members in attendance.

Deputy Speaker of the House Sufmi Dasco Ahmad presided over the session, accompanied by Deputy Speakers Sari Yuliati, Saan Mustopa and Cucun Ahmad Syamsurizal.

Dasco initially requested the views of the factions on the revision of the Law on the Amendment of Law Number 23 of 2006 on Population Administration, proposed as an initiative of House Commission II. The factions’ views were submitted in writing.

Dasco then asked the members present whether they approved the bill becoming a DPR initiative proposal, and the council members agreed.

“We ask this honourable council session: does the initiative bill proposed by House Commission II on the Amendment of Law Number 23 of 2006 on Population Administration meet approval to become a DPR RI initiative bill?” asked Dasco.

“Approved,” the members responded.

Previously, the House’s Legislation Body (Baleg) had agreed that the Second Amendment to Law Number 23 of 2006 on Population Administration (the Population Administration Bill) should become an initiative proposal. The bill regulates sanctions against administrators who fail to protect individuals’ data.

The Chair of the Working Committee on the Population Administration Bill, Martin Manurung, first outlined several key elements of the draft during a meeting in the Baleg room at the DPR building in Senayan, Jakarta, on Monday (7/9/2026). He said the bill covers improvements to the definition of personal data as well as population administration based on an integrated digital active registration system.

“The administration of population affairs based on an integrated digital active registration system must be carried out by the central government, provincial governments and district/municipal governments,” said Martin.

He said the bill also provides for administrative sanctions against administrators who fail to protect population data, and stressed that criminal penalties for users and officials who unlawfully disseminate population data would be set at six years.

“Second, the revision of Article 131, paragraph 2, as follows: administrators who fail to protect population data shall be subject to administrative sanctions in the form of fines, the amounts of which shall be determined by government regulation,” said Martin.

“Third, the revision of criminal sanctions for users and officials who unlawfully disseminate population data under Article 138, set at six years,” he added.