Alluding To MOMS Shutdown Disrupts Entrepreneurs, APNI Hopes Simbara Doesn't Experience Similar Events

Inauguration of Simbada (Photo: Doc VOI)

JAKARTA - The government officially launched the Mineral and Coal Information System between Ministries and Institutions (Simbara) today, Monday, July 22. At the launch this time the government specializes in nickel and tin commodities after previously being successful with coal.

The General Secretary of the Indonesian Nickel Mining Association (APNI), Meidy Katrin Lengkey, hopes that this system will not be vulnerable to cyber attacks. He imitated the cyberattack some time ago which hacked the national data center.

"Hopefully there will be no obstacles to helping prayers, hopefully there will be no microsoft hackers so that it will shut down because of this, right, digital," Meidy said when met by reporters at the Ministry of Finance Building, Monday, July 22.

Moreover, he said, one of the weaknesses of the digital system is the risk of shutdown down as experienced by the Minerba Online Monitoring System (MOMS) system which is detrimental to mining companies.

"Digital itu kekurangannya adalah dia shut down, kalau dia shut down jangan sampai terjadi seperti kemarin MOMS shutdown perusahaan terkena demurrage, nggung kerugian. Ini bukan kesalahan keusahaman tapi kesalahan sistem," kata dia.

For this reason, Meidy asked that Simbara be really prepared as well as possible so that it can be used to remote areas given that many minerba mine sites are located in remote waysah and have signal constraints.

Therefore, Meidy assessed that SIMBARA must really be completed and conditioned so that it can be implemented even to remote areas. This is because many mining companies are constrained by signals.

"We hope that with Simbara everything is factual, there will be no double-double contracts, double-doubled documents," he continued.

Furthermore, Meidy said that she welcomed the presence of nickel commodities in this system because the entire upstream to downstream process of the mining industry became more transparent.

"From production to food, first choose, later there will be routes caught, there is trade, there are taxes or royalties, there is our connection through the port, which is produced by ESDM and industry that eats," he explained.

On the same occasion he also expects Simbara to become a system that can reduce illegal mining activities.

"We hope that after this there will really be controlling, monitoring, all upstream to downstream processes, lifecycle from mining to output, so that there is no state loss," he concluded.