Warning, 200 Million Indonesian Population Data Potentially Lost Due To Legacy Of Storage Servers

Illustration of e-KTP or electronic KTP. (Between)

JAKARTA - Indonesia's population data is in danger of being lost because hundreds of data storage servers managed by the Data Center of the Ministry of Home Affairs' Population and Civil Registration Service (Dukcapil) have the potential to be damaged.

Deputy Chairman of Commission II of the DPR RI, Luqman Hakim, said that hundreds of data storage servers were old, worn out, and some of their spare parts were discontinued.

“We are facing a serious threat regarding population data. Nearly 200 million population data stored in the Dukcapil Data Center of the Ministry of Home Affairs is in danger of being lost or destroyed," said Luqman in Jakarta, Tuesday, April 12.

Based on the information received, he said, no one dared to carry out the maintenance process for the hundreds of servers because the possibility of damage was very high.

"If left unchecked, our nation will suffer considerable losses, namely the loss of nearly two hundreds of millions of population data which the state has been trying hard to input for years, after a recording process involving nearly two hundred million Indonesians," he said, launching Between.

Luqman explained, from the explanation from the Ministry of Home Affairs that was delivered after the Working Meeting (Raker) on April 5 regarding the issue of population data, it had not been comprehensive in anticipating the threat of the loss of two hundreds of millions of population data of the Indonesian people.

According to him, until now there have been no measurable steps in the form of hardware rejuvenation or hardware updates for hundreds of servers belonging to Dukcapil that have been budgeted and become a priority at the Ministry of Home Affairs.

"Of course this is very dangerous, I am very worried about the population data which is the basis of many state services to the people, if the system is disrupted and the hardware is fatally damaged, then we might setback back to the stone age," he said.

He reminded that population data managed by the Dukcapil of the Ministry of Home Affairs has a very big role because there are around 4,517 agencies that collaborate with the ministry in the use of population data.

However, according to him, until now there has been no government decision to collect non-tax state revenue (PNBP) from the use of population data by third parties.

"In fact, some of those who use this data are corporations, business groups, and other productive businesses," he said.

He assessed that with so many parties cooperating in the utilization of population data, it will increase the workload of hundreds of Dukcapil's servers, which are old and in almost broken condition.