Fajarasia.co – Chairman of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Puan Maharani, reminded that the Data Protection Task Force created by the Government could solve the problem of data leakage and cyber crime as a whole. According to him, the data leak case is not just the Bjorka phenomenon.
“There have been many cases of data leaks in the last few years. We hope that the Data Protection Task Force formed by the Government by involving a number of ministries/agencies can solve data leakage cases thoroughly,” said Puan, Thursday (15/9/2022).
“So don’t just solve the data leak from the Bjorka hackers, but all of them,” added the first woman who served as Chair of the Indonesian House of Representatives.
As is known, hackers on behalf of Bjorka have leaked data belonging to a number of state agencies and officials. Starting from the claimed data from the SIM Card registration process, the General Election Commission website, to the President’s correspondence.
“The problem of data leakage has actually happened before this massively. The problem of data leakage is also not only related to state security, but also the private data of citizens who have been leaked is not counted anymore,” said Puan.
For this reason, the DPR encourages the Data Protection Task Force to conduct a large-scale investigation. Given, said Puan, the public data that was leaked was related to personal identity.
“We can’t just focus on state-owned data, but ignore the leaks of people’s personal data,” he said.
Puan also highlighted the Global Data Breach Statistics (Surfshark) Report for the third quarter of 2022, which placed Indonesia in third place as the country with the most data hacks. The report stated that Indonesia experienced 12.7 million hacks.
“Public health data is scattered, not to mention the leakage of personal information used by irresponsible people to market their products. This is very disturbing and detrimental to the community,” said Puan.
The former Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture said that cyber crimes also attack private electronic system (PSE) institutions and operators. Therefore, Puan asked the Government to provide security protection for all parties.
“DPR hopes that a thorough investigation can find ministries/agencies, and agencies that have often received cyber attacks and/or are vulnerable to being hacked,” said the grandson of the Indonesian Proclaimer Bung Karno.
“That way there is an evaluation that can then be carried out to improve the system and efforts to prevent cybercrime attacks,” continued Puan.
Puan also reminded the importance of auditing the state’s cybersecurity system. This is because cases of data leaks and cyber attacks continue to occur.
“And of course a more sophisticated cyber security system must be built, including increasing human resources (HR) in the field of capable technology,” he said.
The DPR will continue to monitor the efforts made by the Government to address the problem of data leakage. Moreover, the Data Protection Task Force created by the Government is in line with the Personal Data Protection Bill (RUU PDP) which mandates the establishment of a personal data protection authority.
“Through Commission I, which will also form a Data Leakage Working Committee (Panja), the DPR will continue to oversee the issue of data leakage. And the DPR is committed to protecting people’s personal data through the PDP Bill which will soon be ratified,” concluded Puan.*****
