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24 Pt. 2 J. Legal Ethical & Regul. Isses 1 (2021)
Data Privacy Law in the Application of Smart City in Indonesia

handle is hein.journals/jnlolletl2424 and id is 496 raw text is: Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues DATA PRIVACY LAW IN THE APPLICATION OF SMART CITY IN INDONESIA Sinta Dewi Rosadi, Padjajaran University Suhardi, Bandung Institute of Technology Samuel Andi Kristyan, Bandung Institute of Technology ABSTRACT Smart cities have the ability to transform data of the physical world into data in the cyber world and monitor it in real time, also contribute to intelligent services for users in terms of entertainment, transportation, and health care, the environment and energy. However, concerns arise about the security, because intelligent city apps not only collect sensitive information from people and their environments, but also affect people's lives. One of the main challenges on the smart city application is the privacy where the smart city infrastructure enables to monitor and surveillance a massive data that can share, process, generate, and analyse large amounts of personal data such as their geo location, characteristics, activities and if it links this data together, it could create profiles or people that against their privacy right. The result is found that in the application of smart city in Indonesia, data privacy is still at stake since Indonesia has not yet had a specific data privacy law that will provide maximum protection. Keywords: Smart City, Privacy Challenges, Application. INTRODUCTION Smart cities concept has been evolving for decades and helping city leader to utilize the information technology to provide a better service and ensure that citizen get to increase their quality of life. Like many cities around the world, smart city has become a trend in Indonesia and is seeking to become a smart city that utilizes the information and communications technology (ICT). The main goal of smart cities is to improve the lives of the citizen and manage city resources in addition to provide better services for communities, improve the governance, provide better service delivery, create more resilient and critical infrastructure for better community mobility, crime prevention and traffic control. According to Datafloq report from The Benefits of Becoming a Smart City, smart cities are becoming necessary due to the world's growing populations is moving to urban centers and currently the world is home to 7,] billion people and by 2025, it will grow to 8 billion (Willis, 2015). The population of Indonesia is projected to increase to 271.1 million in 2020 and increase again to 305.6 million by 2035 (Sub directorate of Statistical Demographic, 2013). With the same research from Sub directorate of Statistical Demographic (2013), the population of urbanization is predicted reaching 5 billion, this means reach 60 percent from total world population. Indonesia's level of urbanization will reach 66.6 percent in the year 2035 for several provinces especially in Java and Bali, which their level of urbanization are higher than the other province. Given these conditions that show majority population living in urban environment, the concept of smart city in Indonesia is needed to establish the growing demand for efficiency and resources, thus the concept of smart city emerges as the management model of cities (Gamero, 2012). It is urgent to improve the concept Corporate Law and Legal System 1 1544-0044-24-S4-815 Citation Information: Rosadi, S.D., Suhardi, & Kristyan, S.A. (2021). Data privacy law in the application of smart city in Indonesia. Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues, 24(S4), 1-9 Volume 24, Special Issue 4, 2021