TNI Commander Prepares Special Path For Cyber Sector Personnel Recruitment

TNI Commander General Agus Subiyanto at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, Wednesday (10/7/2024). (ANTARA/Bagus Ahmad Rizaldi)

TNI Commander General Agus Subiyanto said his institution would recruit with a special route to obtain personnel who have the ability in the field of information or cyber technology. Agus said efforts to increase cyber resilience must start from quality human resources. For this reason, the doctrine of cyber fields in the TNI will also be changed. "Indeed, starting from the recruitment, cyber personnel, from his civilian he must indeed have IT (information technology) capabilities," Agus said after attending a working meeting with Commission I of the DPR RI at the Parliament Complex, Jakarta, as reported by Antara, Wednesday, July 10. The TNI already has units that handle the cyber sector. Later, personnel who have information technology backgrounds will be included in the cyber unit. "Not from general officers, general officials, or general officers, so (paths) are special, maybe college, high schools already have IT capabilities," he said. In addition, added General Agus, the TNI is currently evaluating data at the TNI Strategic Intelligence Agency (Bais) regarding a hack that occurred some time ago by a hacker named MoonzHaxor. "Evaluation from the human resources, maybe the tools should also be good," he added. Previously, the Head of the TNI Information Center, Maj. Gen. Nugraha Gumilar, said that the data that was hacked on Bais TNI was old information that had been released this year.

He also said that the PLAYer or server Bais TNI was temporarily disabled for investigation after the hack.