Director General Of Dukcapil: No Traces Of Population Data Leaks Found

Director General (Dirjen) of Population and Civil Registration (Dukcapil) of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) Teguh Setyabudi. ANTARA/HO-Ditjen Dukcapil

JAKARTA - Director General (Dirjen) of Population and Civil Registration (Dukcapil) of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Teguh Setyabudi, said that based on an investigative audit conducted by his party and BSSN there were no traces of data leakage of the Online Centered Population Administration Information System (SIAK).

"The Directorate General (Ditjen) of Dukcapil of the Ministry of Home Affairs together with other related BSSN and stakeholders have carried out preventive mitigation and rapid investigative audits with so far no traces of data leakage found in SIAK Central Online run by the Directorate General of Dukcapil of the Ministry of Home Affairs," Teguh said as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, July 17.

Even so, he continued, the investigative audit was still being carried out by the Directorate General of Dukcapil together with the National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) and other relevant stakeholders to investigate the alleged leakage of population data.

Teguh conveyed that currently an investigative audit of the alleged data leak has begun to be directed to a population data base managed by the district/city government.

"The investigation audit process is still ongoing to investigate allegations of leaks, including databases in districts/cities as well as preventive mitigation for prevention in the future," he said.

Previously, the alleged data leak was first revealed by a Twitter account called user @DailyDarkWeb on Saturday (15/7). In one of his uploads, the account stated that 337,225,465 rows of population data managed by the Directorate General of Dukcapil of the Ministry of Home Affairs were sold on hackers' forums ("hackers").

In a screenshot of the hacker forum page shared by the Daily Dark Web account, the hacker with the account name RRR claims to get 337 million rows of data from the official dukcapil.kemendagri.go.id website.

The hundreds of millions of data include population identification numbers (NIK), place of birth date, religion, marital status, divorce certificate, mother's name, occupation, and passport number.

Teguh had previously conveyed that the data element format that was allegedly leaked and spread on social media was different from the data element in the Dukcapil database of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

"What we can inform you is that the data in Breachforums viewed from the data element format is not the same as in the population database in the current Directorate General of Dukcapil," he said.