Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Mahfud MD claim app CareProtect made by the government so far solely to protect the people of Indonesia.
He conveyed this in response to a report by the US Department of State that suspected that there had been human rights violations related to public privacy related to the use of the PeduliLindung application.
“We created the Care for Protection program to protect the people,” Mahfud told reporters, Friday (15/4).
PeduliLindung is a Covid-19 tracking application that is officially used for digital contact tracing of corona virus cases in Indonesia. The application, which was released since March 2020, has a feature that is able to show the concerned citizen is being exposed to Covid-19 or not.
Mahfud claims that so far Indonesia has managed to overcome the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic better than the United States.
For him, efforts to protect human rights are not only protecting individual aspects but also communal-social human rights.
“In this context, the state must play an active role in regulating. That is why we created the Care for Protection program which is very effective in reducing the transmission of Covid-19 infections to Delta and Omicron,” he said.
It is known, the US Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a report entitled ‘2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Indonesia’. One of the highlights in the report relates to arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy.
The report revealed that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) said security officers sometimes carried out surveillance without warrants of individuals, residences and monitoring telephone calls. The report highlights the use of Pedulilindungi.
“The app also stores information about an individual’s vaccination status. NGOs express concern about what information the app collects and how this data is stored and used by the government,” the report said.
(rzr / fra)
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