Personal Data Of Aid Recipient Teachers Leaked To The Public, Minister Of Education And Culture Asked To Intervene

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JAKARTA - The Association for Education and Teachers (P2G) regrets the leakage of private data belonging to teachers and honorary and private education personnel through the WhatsApp message application. They are candidates for Wage Subsidy Assistance (BSU) from the Ministry of Education and Culture.

"To the extent that there is a population identification number, the account number concerned, even the name of the biological mother. We are very sorry that this personal data has been leaked and spread to the public through the WAG," said P2G National Coordinator, Satriwan Salim in a written statement quoted by VOI, Friday, November 20.

The Ministry of Education and Culture and the bank, he continued, should be able to maintain the confidentiality of the personal data of teachers and education personnel who will be prospective recipients.

Head of P2G Teacher Advocacy Iman Z. Haeri said that due to the leakage of personal data, honorary and private teachers who had not registered to receive BSU became anxious and afraid. They are afraid that the same thing will be experienced.]

So that in the future, the Ministry of Education and Culture and the bank are expected to quickly protect the personal data of teachers and education personnel. Given the number of prospective recipients is 2,034,732 people. Moreover, the total budget for BSU is quite fantastic, amounting to Rp3.66 trillion.

"Mas Minister must be very understanding about digital security. If he fails again, this is similar to a conversation in the simplification of the curriculum draft some time ago. This time the teacher data leaked. Not even got subsidized assistance, the data has leaked. said Faith.

Apart from that, P2G also asked the police to immediately investigate the alleged leakage of personal data belonging to teachers and education personnel who are currently scattered in the WA group by the responsible party. This is important so that the security of user data, especially teachers, education personnel, and lecturers, can be protected by the state.

It is known that in the file that was leaked through the short message application there were 175,000 names of teachers complete with the Unit Number for Teachers and Education Personnel, Identity Number, BSU ID, Name of Teachers and Education Personnel. In addition there are also places of birth date, name of place of assignment, account number, to the name of the biological mother.