REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The Commissioner of the National Commission on Human Rights Maneger Nasution has received reports on the case of cloned cell phone number. The latest case happened to Mustofa Nahrawardaya, the Governing Council of Library and Information Muhammadiyah. Mustofa has reported the case to the operator Telkomsel and gained confirmation that none of SMSs that angered people were not sent from his phone.

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Maneger reiterated the party who cloned cell phone number of Indonesian citizen without rights has violated the right to privacy in Human Rights. He said according to Article 28F of the 1945 Constitution and Article 14 of Law 39 of 1999 on Human Rights, the independence and confidential correspondence relationship including through electronic means of communication links should not be disturbed, except on the orders of a judge or other authority constituted under the provisions of the legislation of Article 32 of Law 39 of 1999.

Therefore, Maneger said the state attendance, especially the government, is obligatory to protect and fulfill the constitutional rights of citizens. In the other hand, he remarked that the people could sue through existing mechanism of law to retain their right to privacy. "Whoever, let alone a government as stakeholders should not perform wiretapping, cloning, and so on to the citizens phone without rights," he reiterated.

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