Estimates Other Sectors Affected By PDN Disruption, Commission I Of The House Of Representatives: Being Mitigated

Chairman of Commission I DPR RI Meutya Hafid. (ANTARA PHOTO/Aditya Pradana Putra)

JAKARTA - Chairman of Commission I of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Meutya Hafid, assessed that so far the government has taken steps to overcome disturbances in the National Data Center (PDN) system. However, he said, it had not fully recovered.

According to him, his party has also received information from the Minister of Communication and Information (Menkominfo) Budi Arie Setiadi that the disturbance that occurred was targeting PT Telkom. His party also requested that the resolution of the problem be accelerated.

"It seems that there are other sectors that are also affected, this is being mitigated, anywhere affected and it will be resolved one by one," said Meutya at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Monday, June 4, which was confiscated by Antara.

He said that improvements to the existence of PDN disturbances must really be done because it involves the good name of the Indonesian nation. In this case, he admitted that his party did not want to blame anyone, but all parties must realize that cybersecurity is important.

Meutya assessed that if there was an attack on the system that caused the service to be disrupted, there would be a potential for data leakage. For this reason, he admitted that he would summon the Minister of Communication and Information if the problem had not been resolved in the future.

"The point is that if you want a malfunction, you want an attack, the main problem is our cyber security insensitivity. So this needs to be improved," he said.

Earlier on Saturday, June 22, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs (Menko Polhukam) Hadi Tjahjanto said the government was still improving and exploring problems related to disturbances in the PDN system managed by the Ministry of Communication and Information (Kominfo).

He said that equipment must have weaknesses. Therefore, the government also anticipates that disturbances do not occur again and government and community data are protected.