Jakarta, May 22 -- Deputy Minister of Human Rights Mugiyanto stated that the revision of Law Number 39 of 1999 on Human Rights is necessary to adapt to digital space issues to the right to a healthy environment.

"The changing times present new challenges, from the digital space, environmental protection, the right to privacy, to other constitutionally protected rights that are dynamically evolving," Mugiyanto said in a statement received here on Friday.

Speaking at a public consultation on the revision of the Human Rights Law at UIN Walisongo Semarang, Central Java, on Thursday (May 21), Mugiyanto explained that the law, which is now more than two decades old, needs to be updated because some of its substances are considered no longer r...