Every government operates secrecy as one of mechanism to protect the
state, the people, and the assets from threats. There is lack of clarity of
rules for the secrecy system in Indonesia. Ultimately, there is no uniform
conception among government officials, because each agency makes its
own policy and system. This condition brings disadvantage to society,
because there is no clear guidance on this subject and it will not be
able to push the government to act more responsible in managing the
information. The rules about ?closed archives? in Law No. 43 of 2009
about Archives and the term of ?security classification? that mentioned
in Government Regulation No. 28 of 2012 about the Implementation
of Law No. 43 of 2009 about Archives, do not help at all in solving that
problems. To get the accountability in the management of closed archive,
the government does not have any other option than establishing a set
of rules that describe a clear secrecy system. The secrecy concept can
be framed within the concept of records life cycle, in order to be more
adjustable to the existing system.
