Roy Suryo: Unpowered Communications And Informatics, Countries Are In Danger

Illustration of hacker attack (Freepic)

Telemedia and multimedia observer Roy Suryo said Indonesia's national data center has now been published cheaply in cyberspace. This cheapness is because the samples have been offered to download the data for free.

"Starting from detailed population name data with complete address, NIK (Population identification number), NPWP (Taxpayer Identification Number), personal cellphone number, BPJS membership number, to NRP (Basic Registration Number) for TNI-Polri and Identification of Finger Sidik are all offered in Darkweb," Roy Suryo told VOI via text message received, Sunday, June 29.

"Along with the breach of various databases such as Dukcapil (Population & Civil Registration), BPJS-Health, BPJS-Employment, INAFIS (Indonesian Automatic Fingerprint Identification System), to BAIS-TNI (Indonesian National Army Strategic Intelligence Agency) complete with all User-Id and Passwords," he added.

According to Roy, the data he mentioned now exists & is available on Darkweb with various criteria and prices. Roy emphasized that with a reality like this it feels really painful and embarrassing for those who are aware and still have a sense of nationalism.

"The data above now exists and is available on Darkweb with various criteria and various prices. Starting from US$ 1000 to US$ 7000 even more, depending on the specifications and completeness. It is very ironic as Netizen comments in the virtual realm which already mentions our beloved country Indonesia as "Open Source Country" aka a country where all the sources (data) are open," he said.