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Indonesia court broadens scope of DPO mandate in data-protection law

By Jet Damazo-Santos ( August 8, 2025, 06:34 GMT | Insight) -- Indonesia’s Constitutional Court has struck down a restrictive clause in the Personal Data Protection Law that limited when organizations must appoint data-protection officers. The court found that the law’s cumulative requirement was unconstitutional and must be read to trigger the obligation when any one of the risk-based criteria is met, not all three. Indonesia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a clause in the country’s Personal Data Protection Law that limits when organizations must appoint data-protection officers, or DPOs, is unconstitutional, saying the requirement must apply more broadly to strengthen privacy protections....

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