Indonesia Is Expected To Be Able To Protect The Community From Cyber Crime

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JAKARTA - Digital technology is considered a necessity for the personal and economic life of a country, including Indonesia.

Even so, based on a survey by the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo), Indonesia's digital literacy index is still at the level of 3.54 from scale 5, in 2022.

Plus based on data from the National Criminal Information Center (Pusiknas) of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police, cyber crime has increased significantly in 2022 compared to 2021, where the number of cybercrimes has increased by 14 times.

Responding to this, the Director of Information Empowerment of the Directorate General of Informatics Applications, Kominfo Slamet Santoso, said that his party had taken strategic steps to protect internet users from cyber crime.

"Kominfo certainly cooperates with all partners to jointly develop human resources with digital understanding," Slamet said at the Indonesian Digital Literacy Conference in Jakarta, quoted Friday, November 24.

Slamet added that the second step is for the government and the DPR as regulators to prepare a bill for the protection of personal data to be finalized immediately.

"Finally, we must always partner strategically with all stakeholders," he said.

According to Slamet, collaboration of various parties is needed to solve the problem.

"Collaboration between the government, academics, industry, society, media, non-profit organizations, and individuals is able to accelerate the exchange of information among stakeholders and ensure that all parties know the development of the situation, and can make decisions appropriately," he said.

Meanwhile, Founder of the Center for Financial and Digital Literacy (CFDL) Rahman Mangussara said that currently Indonesia's internet users reached 212.9 million in January 2023, an increase of 10 million from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the increasing number of internet usage, said Rahman, all parties must realize that the higher the risk that will be faced if they do not have good literacy.

"Insufficient digital literacy makes it easy for us to get lost and face many crimes," he added.

Meanwhile, based on the National Cyber Security Index (NCSI), Indonesia's cyber security index score reached 38.96 points from 100, in 2022. It is known, Indonesia is in the third lowest ranking among the G20 countries.

Globally, Indonesia is ranked 83rd out of 160 countries in the report.