IT Law Improves Country’s Competitiveness

By: Sonny Zulhuda

The above is my paper that I delivered in a seminar at Law Faculty, University Diponegoro (Undip), Semarang, this month (June 2o1o). More than 120 participants attended mostly academics, faculties and law students from that University. Beside me as speaker was Prof. Dr. Nyoman Sarikat Putrajaya from the Law Faculty of Undip.

We discussed how the cyberlaw and other IT-related legislation can improve the competitiveness of the country, in this respect Indonesia. Variety of issues were being highlighted and debated including international law, cybercrime, content regulation, e-commerce law, phishing and carding, personal data protection, and -unsurprisingly the most popular topic- the latest incident of online porn that involved some national celebrities.

The program was organised by the Asian Law Students Association (ALSA), Undip Local Chapter in cooperation with Law Firm Prihatwono & Partners. My long-time friend Rico from the Law Firm acted as the moderator. Should you are interested to know further about the paper, you can let me know by email (zulhuda at yahoo dot com). Ah, by the way, it is in Indonesian language! 🙂