Limited Meeting Leaks And Becomes Polemic, Mahfud: Tapped

Menkopolhukam Mahfud MD (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menkopolhukam) Mahfud MD said that currently the discourse being initiated by the government often leaks in the community and becomes a polemic.

Mahfud suspects that the leakage of the discourse was through technology that is often used for meetings. Given that, in the current COVID-19 pandemic, the government is holding online limited meetings (Ratas) via a video conference service platform to replace conventional face-to-face meetings.

"Something that is still in the discourse of the discussion has leaked in the community. The leak was not leaked by the official. Sometimes, like today, we use virtual meetings that can leak everywhere," Mahfud said in an interview broadcast on Dedy Corbuzier's YouTube account, Monday. , 18 May.

Mahfud suspects that this leak occurred because a third party tapped into the virtual meeting. This, said the former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court (MK), is very likely to happen considering that during meetings, these officials are often accompanied by other people who help them.

"At home there are those who accompany them later, maybe there is technology that is tapping and then leaking (the information)," he said.

This discourse leak, which then makes officials sometimes confused in explaining something, so they stuttered. Given, sometimes the decisions that are heard by the public are not yet final.

"Now, when this (discourse) has started to leak, questions arise and the officials concerned sometimes explain that in a state of confusion there are different (answers)," he said.

"But the truth is, the decisions are never different and when it becomes a discourse people debate it," he added.

Regarding the possibility of hacking, Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung said some time ago that he had coordinated with the National Cyber Crypto Agency (BSSN).

As a result, virtual limited meetings that are often held by President Joko Widodo and related ministers and officials to discuss domestic issues use different applications for each implementation.

"In coordination with BSSN, we will use alternating applications so that no one can track them," said Pramono last April.

Previously, the government often used the Zoom application to hold limited meetings. However, currently the government uses a different application each meeting to avoid hacking.