Indonesian Research Journal in Legal Studies
Vol. 4 No. 2: September 2025 - Indonesian Research Journal in Legal Studies (IRJILS)

The Existence of Law Number 27 Of 2022 Concerning Personal Data Protection in Protecting Citizens' Privacy Rights

Awaluddin (Faculty of Law, Universitas Tadulako, Palu, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Sep 2025

Abstract

This research aims to analyze and examine how Law Number 27 of 2022 plays a role as a legal instrument in ensuring the protection of citizens' privacy rights to personal data. In addition, this study also aims to assess the effectiveness of the norms and provisions regulated in the law, as well as evaluate institutional readiness to support its comprehensive implementation in the digital era. This research uses a normative legal method by examining laws and regulations and legal documents related to Law Number 27 of 2022 to examine the protection of citizens' privacy rights. The results of this study show that Law Number 27 of 2022 has been present as a special regulation that provides a clear and comprehensive legal basis in ensuring the protection of privacy rights for citizens' personal data. This law contains data protection principles in accordance with international standards, as well as regulates the rights of data subjects, the obligations of data controllers, and sanctions for violations. However, the effectiveness of the implementation of this law still faces structural obstacles, especially the lack of the formation of an independent supervisory institution which is an important element in carrying out the function of supervision and law enforcement optimally. It is recommended that the government immediately establish an independent supervisory institution and improve people's digital literacy to support the effectiveness of protecting privacy rights under the Personal Data Protection Law.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IRJILS

Publisher

Subject

Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description

Indonesian Research Journal in Legal Studies (IRJILS) is a scientific journal published by the Postgraduate Program of Universitas Muhammadiyah Palu with E-ISSN 2963-1017. This journal is open access and peer-reviewed, published twice a year (March and September). IRJILS serves as an academic forum ...