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By APD writer Maverick
**JAKARTA, April 17 (APD) — **Indonesian lawmakers grilled Facebook executives on Tuesday over the data leak of more than 1 million Indonesian users to a Britain-based political agency Cambridge Analytica, demanding Facebook to handover the audit document related to the leak within one month.
If Facebook failed to do so, the parliament would recommend the government to take moratorium step against the popular social media application, which now is subscribed by over 115 million of over 260 population in the country.
“One month is enough to handover the audit document. We have to know that the data was used by which party and for what purpose,” Member of Indonesian parliament’s Commission I Meutya Hafid said on the sidelines of a hearing attended by Facebook Indonesia Public Policy chief Ruben Hattari and Facebook Asia-Pacific Public Policy chief Simon Milner.
Meutya said that obtaining the document was necessary to anticipate misconduct that may lead to inappropriate results of the upcoming regional election in Indonesia.
“We want to make sure that the leak would not be used for political interests in Indonesia,” she said.
Indonesia was scheduled to hold simultaneous regional election in 171 provinces and regencies in June this year. It would be followed later with presidential election slated for April next year whose process would begin later this year.
Responding the Indonesian parliament demand, Facebook said that it was not sure whether it can comply with it due to progressing investigation in Britain related to the case.
“The British authorities have ordered us not to carry out auditing process until their investigation is done,” Hattari said.
Previously, in its response to demand of Indonesia Communications and Information Minister Rudiantara, Facebook admitted that 1.1 million Indonesian users have been leaked to Cambridge Analytica.
Facebook said that leak among Indonesian users was part of a total leaks on 87 million users of which 70 percent of them were the United States users. The leak was allegedly related to improper use of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica to influence elections.
Reports said data of Facebook users was illegally harvested by Facebook third-party developer, Kogan, which eventually transferred it to Cambridge Analytica, the agency that helped Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign period in the United States presidential race.
Indonesia has officially issued law on protection and personal information that has to be complied by social media operating in the country.
Maximum penalties of 12-year imprisonment and a fine of 12 billion rupiah (about 837,000 U.S. Dollars) would be charged against those proved of breaching the law.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
