27 October

You can ask Google to stop listing pages that contain your phone number, home address or ID number in its search results, though removing the page itself means contacting the site owner. On 27 October 2016, Indonesia's House of Representatives passed amendments to the Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE) Law, under which website and platform operators must delete irrelevant information at the request of the person concerned, on the basis of a court ruling. The Jakarta Post quoted the information and telecommunications minister as calling this good because Indonesia previously had no right to be forgotten, and the paper reported that this provision and the articles on cyberbullying were regarded as particularly draconian. The lawmaker who led the House team on the amendments highlighted Article 40, which authorizes the government to cut off access to unlawful content or order providers to do so, saying the aim is to make the government responsible for preventing the spread of prohibited information, while the paper reported that the law has little in the way of provisions regulating the use of this power. That power remains in the second amendment, Law No. 1 of 2024, which adds that for pornography, gambling and other content defined by regulation such an order can take the form of cutting off access or having the provider moderate the content itself, as far as technically possible; if you would rather not deal with a site owner, you can start by asking Google to remove only the search result.