Jakarta, May 18 -- Communication and Digital Affairs Minister Meutya Hafid underscored that the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade (ART) between Indonesia and the United States does not cover transfers of Indonesian civil registry data to Washington.

"It is important to stress that claims suggesting the ART regulates civil registry data transfers from the Indonesian government to the US government are entirely false," Hafid told Commission I of the House of Representatives (DPR) in Jakarta on Monday.

She explained that the bilateral pact is limited to governing data flows related to digital commerce and activities within the digital ecosystem.

"Article 3.2 of the agreement specifically addresses data flows concerning digital trade," she not...