Data Leaks Often Occur, PKS Urges Government To Issue Cyber Strengthening Policy

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JAKARTA - Leaks of data that befell Indonesian citizens often occur recently. Some of them are data leaks for 279 million Indonesians, BPJS data, E-hac data, KPAI data, even the personal data of President Jokowi and Vice President Ma'ruf Amin.

The latest is the breach of the BSSN website and the leaking of data from members of the Police. A total of 28,000 Polri members' data were distributed at the Raidforum which included names, addresses, ranks, work units, date of birth, types of violations, cellphone numbers, and emails. This is all done by cyberattacks.

This frequent data leak has been in the spotlight of a member of Commission I DPR RI, Sukamta. He asked the government to issue a policy so that leakage would not be repeated.

Sukamta said, in the RI Law Number 23 of 2019 concerning Management of National Resources for National Defense (PSDN) that cyber attacks are a threat to the state. Therefore, he stressed the need to increase the awareness of institutional leaders on data security, technology updates, increasing human resource capacity, and budgeting.

"More importantly, the government must issue a strong general policy on cyber, of course within the corridors of regulations and legislation," said Sukamta, Sunday, November 21.

The deputy chairman of the PKS faction said that the condition of Indonesia's cyber resilience and security (KKS) was very weak. So this homework (PR) must be managed from upstream to downstream.

"Upstream work, of course, is in the laws and regulations. Our cyberspace needs to be regulated so that it doesn't become a wilderness. Until now, only the ITE Law regulates our cyberspace," said Sukamta.

This doctoral graduate from the UK illustrates the important role of legislation in strengthening cyber from upstream. If using the Venn Diagram, said Sukamta, then the set of universes is the relationship between the internet and humans. Then in it, there is a set of KKS (cyber security & defense), data security (data security), electronic transactions, cybercrime, human behavior as internet users (digital / information behavior), digital sovereignty, and all of them intersect on the issue of data protection, one of which is the protection of personal data.

"Well, there are still many empty associations with no regulations. That's why it's important to have the PSC Bill and the PDP Bill. Hopefully, the PSC Bill can be included in the Prolegnas. And hopefully, the PDP Bill will soon be completed and passed into law," Sukamta hoped.

"However, given the urgent conditions, while the time for law-making is not short, I urge the government to issue policies to strengthen our cyber," he continued.

Currently, said Sukamta, the Indonesian cyber world is handled at least by the BSSN and the Dittipidsiber (Directorate of Cyber ​​Crime) of the Police. The legal basis for BSSN is Presidential Regulation Number 53 of 2017 in conjunction with Number 28 of 2021. According to him, this is clearly not enough.

Therefore, he considered, BSSN must be strengthened by law. Because BSSN is required to coordinate all KKS functions in public institutions nationally. Do not let, said Sukamta, there is a sectoral ego here because it can hinder and slow down everything.

"What also needs to be considered is cyber diplomacy which is a bridge for our country to cooperate with other countries, especially regarding investigations and prosecution of cybercriminals from other countries. Like the case of the BSSN website and the Polri data, the claim is that the perpetrators came from Brazil. Jurisdiction must be clearly strengthened with cyber diplomacy," said the Chairman of the PKS DPP for Overseas Development and Development (BPPLN).