Cybersecurity expert Doctor Pratama Persadha said that he was not sure the government had blocked Facebook, because the users of this social media in Indonesia reached 130 million users.

"If Facebook is still fussing, I think it needs to be blocked. However, it needs to have a replacement solution," said Pratama who is also the Head of the Communication and Information System Security Research Center (CISSReC) in Semarang, Thursday (12/4). /2018).

According to Pratama, there are risks if the government blocks Facebook. In fact, the risk could spread to politics and cause instability in the country.

The Facebook blocking discourse is related to the alleged data theft by Cambridge Analytica of 87 million FB user data in the world. Of these, 1,096,666 of them are Indonesian netizens.

Pratama argues that Indonesia's position is weak because infrastructure does not have an alternative to local social media. Unlike China, which blocks Facebook, Google, and WhatsApp, they have prepared alternative applications, such as QQ, Weibo, and WeChat.

This is because, he continued, social media has grown to be more than just a place to meet old friends. However, it has further become a place to earn a living for many people. In fact, relatively many micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) use Facebook for their promotional tools.

"This should be a lesson so that in the future the government can see this as a priority to build social media platforms and other internet services," said Pratama.

According to him, the cases of data leakage of Facebook users also occurred on other platforms with different amounts, could be smaller or more.

"Privacy issues in our country also need to get a legal umbrella through the Personal Data Protection Act. This must also be resolved by the government," said Pratama, who was once the Acting Director (Plt.) of the Signal Security Director of the State Crypto Agency (Lemsaneg).

Touching back on the Facebook case, he argued that the government's threat to block Facebook on the one hand wanted to show the government's side with the people. However, that's not enough.