Overview

Even though 2020 is likely to be remembered as the 21^st century’s worst year to date due to the ongoing Corona Virus Disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) pandemic, one positive side-effect of the pandemic has been the expedited development and utilization of Indonesia’s digital and electronic environment due to the restrictions that have been placed upon physical activities and transactions.[1] Indeed, Bank Indonesia data reveals that the number of transactions conducted via electronic commerce (“E-commerce”) this year has almost doubled due to the COVID-19 pandemic from 80 million transactions in 2019 to 140 million completed transactions by August 2020.[2] Moreover, the above data doesn't even including the utilization of other electronic systems, such as user-generated content (such as Instagram and Facebook), cloud computing systems, search engines and many others.