Team completes draft on RI's first cyber law

Team completes draft on RI's first cyber law

JAKARTA (JP): A special team of academics from the Bandung
Institute of Technology and the University of Padjajaran has
completed a draft on Indonesia's first law on cyber crimes and
will present it to the government in October.

Head of the cyber law drafting team Ahmad M. Ramli said on
Monday that the draft would be presented to the director general
of posts and telecommunications who will forward it to the
Minister of Transportation Agum Gumelar.

"The government will first have to study the draft with other
telecommunications experts and the Indonesian consumer agency,
before it is enacted into law," he said on the sidelines of a
seminar on Internet banking.

The law would address crimes dealing with the Internet such as
credit card fraud and signature fraud that sometimes occurs
during transactions on the Internet, Ahmad said.

It would also address privacy definitions on the Net such as
how a company should handle confidential information of its
customers over the Net, he said.

Punishment for cyber crimes would not be as harsh as for
crimes made in the "real world", Ahmad said, explaining that many
cyber crimes were committed by people without a lot of money and
therefore the fine should be within their capacity to pay.

The law would differentiate crimes committed intentionally for
profit and those committed unintentionally and that jail terms
would be limited to between two to four years depending on the
seriousness of the crime, he said.(tnt)