Ministry Of Home Affairs Asks Perpetrators Of Spreading Jokowi's NIK To Be Punished Simultaneously In Today's Memory, September 4, 2021

President Joko Widodo received the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday, January 27, 2021, on the west side of the central courtyard of the Presidential Palace, Jakarta. (www.presidenri.go.id)

JAKARTA Memories today, four years ago, September 4, 2021, the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) asked the perpetrators of spreading the Population Identification Number (NIK) and the corona vaccine certificate President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) to be punished accordingly. The perpetrator is considered to have violated the security of Indonesia's number one personal data.

Previously, the government had never really cared about personal data protection matters. The breakdown of the personal data security system in Indonesia has become a common secret. This condition was shown by the leaking of personal data from the President of Indonesia.

Pessimism related to personal data protection is increasingly emerging. The government must be able to store, maintain, and ensure the confidentiality of people's personal data as if they don't care. They are never firm when there is data managed by the government or the private sector that leaks.

The government seems to underestimate personal data matters. In fact, data managed by the private sector threatens many Indonesian people. Take for example data leakage managed by the private sector in 2020. Data from Tokopedia was once hacked by hackers.

The hack managed to retrieve 91 million user data and seven Tokopedia sellers. The incident caused a stir throughout Indonesia. Another big scene was when the government itself experienced a data leak. The narrative was shown when data on the permanent voter list of the General Elections Commission (KPU) in the 2014 Election was hacked.

The leak did not play games, hackers managed to get 2.3 million personal data from the Indonesian people. The people actively criticize the government. However, the government does not want to be blamed. They also promised to tighten matters of personal data protection. Even though the results were still nil.

This condition is because the data from Indonesia's number one person is leaked. Data on Jokowi's NIK and corona vaccine certification spread easily to the media in early September 2021. This condition proves that the data of the President of Indonesia is easy to hack, especially the people.

"It's not comfortable, it's a lot, not only the President, but many officials whose NIKs have become scattered are still out. We realize that now, we will close the data on officials," said Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin as quoted by the COMPASS.com page, September 3, 2021.

The leak of Jokowi's data made his ministers frantic. They tried to find out who the hacker was and asked law enforcement officials to arrest him. The Ministry of Home Affairs did not want to be left behind on September 4, 2021.

The owner of the power asked the hackers to get the appropriate punishment. This condition is because the data violations committed belong to the number one person in Indonesia. This condition opens the veil that all Indonesian citizens have unsafe data.

The Ministry of Home Affairs also advised all Indonesian people to be careful in using the NIK. This condition is because the NIK is valid for life.

Residents of the public should not upload KTP-El, KK, on social media, every application made to minimally use 2 factors/elements for authentication. For NIK according to the law, it is valid for life.

"We are currently conducting a study. The perpetrators must be punished accordingly so that there is an element of deterrence. Each institution should not announce the NIK of residents, NIK of customers, customers, students and so on," said Director General of Dukcapil of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Zudan Arif Fakrulloh as quoted on the detik.com page, September 4, 2021.