TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Legal expert staff of the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, Henri Subiakto, assumed Facebook user`s information which previously reported have breached could be used for criminal acts or political strategy in the 2019 election.

The professor of communication from Airlangga University stated the government has coordinated with National Police to investigate the scandal and have sent a verbal and written notice to Facebook. “We urged Facebook to make an apology for those users’ whose data breached,” said Henri yesterday, Sunday, April 8.

As previously reported, Facebook information breach was revealed by Christopher Wylie, former Head of Research of Cambridge Analytica last March. The massive data breach began when Aleksandr Kogan, a University of Cambridge researcher, using personal data of 87 millions of Facebook users for personality quiz app throughout 2014, one million of the data were from Indonesia.

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Director of Indonesia Media Watch, Agus Sudibyo, argued people might continuously worry if Facebook and the government did not announce the users’ account whose data were breached. “Imagine there are 130 million Facebook users in Indonesia and the government did not know how those data used,” he said.

Communication and Informatics Minister Rudiantara claimed the government is currently waiting for the audit results from Facebook on the data breach. “We asked Facebook to report the result,” he said.

Earlier, Facebook Indonesia’s public policy head Ruben Hattari stated his office will obey the regulation. “We will submit the audit result completely,” he said.

HUSSEIN ABRI DONGORAN