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Director of ASEAN Political and Security Cooperation of the Foreign Ministry, Chandra Widya Yudha, said Indonesia and ASEAN member countries will design cyber security cooperation for Southeast Asia. Chandra Widya Yudha in a press conference in Jakarta on Friday (April 20) explained that the draft cooperation is scheduled to be discussed in the 32nd ASEAN Summit to be held in Singapore on 27 and 28 April. One of the issues related to cyber security that will be raised at the meeting is personal data protection to respond to the scandal of exploitation and leak of personal data on Facebook and other issues on the security of other virtual worlds.

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“It is not limited to personal data protection. I mentioned earlier that this concerns the development of capacity and regional norms and also about activities or other cooperation related to politics and security. Still there is certainly about terrorism, transnational crime that uses cyberspace as a medium, about Facebook incident, related personal data, we also include elements of the need for such personal data protection within the scope of cooperation cyber security cooperation,” said Chandra Widya Yudha.

Chandra added that until now the ASEAN multilateral cooperation plan related with cyber security is still in the stages of discussion of norms and principles among leaders of ASEAN countries. It has not been concrete yet and has not touched non-government stakeholders. However, the norms and principles, manifested in the ASEAN Leaders Statement on Cyber security Cooperation Document, can be a more concrete cooperation framework in the future. (VOI/Rezha/AHM)