After a hearing (RDP) meeting with Commission I of the Indonesian House of Representatives in Senayan, Central Jakarta, Tuesday (17/4/2018), it was rumored that Facebook Indonesia would be closed. It is planned that the closing will be held on April 24, 2018.

A few days before the news of the closure occurred, Netizens, especially Facebook users, posted the status "Facebook will be closed", some also uploaded "before Facebook is closed, post a status or photo first."

The news that Facebook will be closed is of course a pro and contra among netizens.

Even so, the rumors that went viral and circulated widely on social media, especially Facebook, were certainly not true or hoaxes.

The government can indeed give strict sanctions to block Facebook, because the data of one million Indonesian users was also leaked in the Cambridge Analytica (CA) scandal.

However, there is no certainty that on April 24, Facebook will actually be blocked in Indonesia.

Minister of Communication and Information (Menkominfo) Rudiantara on various occasions never mentioned blocking Facebook.

In fact, Rudiantara said that the Ministry of Communications and Informatics did not hesitate to block Facebook, but must follow procedures so that the steps are not rash.

Rudiantara's only firm statement about blocking Facebook is if there is evidence that Facebook is used as a means of inciting or fighting.

Rudiantara ensured that if investigators found an element of criminal suspicion in the leak of Facebook user data in Indonesia, the chances of blocking Facebook would be even greater.

At the moment, these two things cannot be proven, they are still under investigation and waiting for the results of the audit.

"If there are indications that Facebook in Indonesia is being used for incitement, like what happened in Myanmar. I have no qualms about blocking it," said Rudiantara, a few days ago.

The Minister of Communication and Informatics has asked Facebook to conduct an audit, and submitted the results of the audit since a week after the announcement that data on Facebook users in Indonesia had been leaked in the CA scandal.

The request was included in the first Warning Letter (SP) sent by the Ministry of Communication and Informatics. But after the specified deadline arrived, Facebook has not yet submitted the results of the audit.

Kominfo also issued a second warning letter.

"Currently, it is SP II. We are waiting, later after SP II it can be upgraded to a temporary service termination if needed," said Rudiantara again.

If the audit results are known later, the government can assess the potential problems that could arise from this data leak and take steps to address them.

Meanwhile, Head of Public Policy for Facebook Indonesia, Ruben Hattari, emphasized that the recent data leaks from users were not in the form of breaching the security system of Facebook users.

In front of the leadership of the House of Representatives Commission I, Ruben explained that the data leak was caused by the abuse of authority given by Facebook to application providers or so-called third parties.