Commission I of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) responded to the leak of data from one million Facebook users in Indonesia. There is an assessment that Facebook has violated applicable laws.

The deputy chairman of the Golkar faction in Commission I, Meutya Hafid, considers this a serious violation by Facebook. Facebook has violated the rules based on Article 32 of the ITE Law which was later quoted by Meutya.

"As a sovereign country, the law in Indonesia must be complied with and anyone who violates it will be subject to sanctions in accordance with the applicable laws," wrote Meutya when contacted via WhatsApp, Thursday (5/4/2018), as reported by CNNIndonesia.com.

Furthermore, Meutya also said that the government could sue, impose sanctions and close access to Facebook. He is worried that if there is no punishment for the social network, it could end badly for other internet companies in Indonesia.

"Please the government can choose an option from the three."

On the other hand, there has been a suggestion by Hanafi Rais from the PAN faction that Commission I of the DPR summons Facebook Indonesia immediately, in connection with the findings of the data leak.

"We will meet internally and immediately send a letter to them officially," said Hanafi.

It is not yet known when the summons will be. However, the agenda will be more directed to ask for clarification from Facebook, Hanafi emphasized.

Previously, representatives of Facebook Indonesia had complied with the summons of the Minister of Communication and Information, Rudiantara.

The call is an effort to clarify from the government regarding the leak of data belonging to one million Facebook users in Indonesia, out of a total of 87 million users worldwide. This is in connection with the Cambridge Analityca scandal.

From the results of the meeting between Rudiantara and Facebook, the important point is to ask third-party applications on the Facebook platform to be temporarily closed.

If Facebook does not comply with the government's request, Rudiantara, on that occasion, emphasized that he would not hesitate to close Facebook's services in Indonesia.

"If (third-party applications) are not shutdown, do you want me to shutdown all of them?" he said.