Vice President Asks Police To Innovate To Prevent Cyber Attacks: Eliminate Kaku Bureaucratic Blocks

Vice President (Wapres) Ma'ruf Amin. (Between)

JAKARTA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin asked the National Police and related parties to seek innovative steps in countering cyber attacks.

"Effort to innovative and comprehensive steps that can become 'vaccines' for all cyber attacks. Eliminate rigid bureaucratic barriers, because we all work within the framework of the Republic of Indonesia," said the Vice President in Jakarta, Thursday, August 8, quoted by Antara.

This was conveyed by the Vice President in his virtual remarks at the Seminar for Participants in the Staff and High Leadership School (Sespimti) of the 33rd Regular Education Police in 2024.

In his key speech, Vice President Ma'ruf also emphasized the importance of responding quickly in dealing with public complaints. This attitude must be guided by members of the National Police at all levels.

"Increase the ability of apparatus human resources in cyber fields to be more responsive and responsive to public reports. Train Police personnel from the Headquarters level to the police station level by involving related elements," said the Vice President.

The Vice President reminded that as an institution that carries out the function of security and community arrangements in order to create a situation and condition of security and order, the Police must be able to accept the input of the people they serve. This is solely to continue to improve public performance and trust in the Police.

"Listen to the suggestions of public criticism and follow-up in accordance with existing procedures. The aspirations of the community are an encouragement to provide better security and order services in the future," he said.

Ending his speech, Vice President Ma'ruf hoped that the seminar could formulate a number of breakthroughs in thought that would soon be thoroughly applied to improve cybersecurity in Indonesia.

"Hopefully this seminar will produce policy recommendations and strategic steps in handling cyber crime, ranging from preemptive, preventive, to taking action," said the Vice President.

Meanwhile, the Head of Sespim Lemdiklat Polri Inspector General of Police Chryshnanda Dwilaksana emphasized the importance of inter-institutional collaboration in answering various challenges in the digital era.

He said that the Indonesian people are still facing cyber insecurity due to the use of foreign applications.

"In the current digital era, problems will continue to develop, therefore there must be provisions in the virtual world. We all understand, we still use an application system that is not sovereign and full of vulnerability. Therefore, the synergy of stakeholders is very important," he explained.

Chryshnanda said that HR is the nation's main asset which in today's digital era is expected to be good at the IoT (Internet of Things) network.

Through this activity, participants are also expected to be able to understand and build a state-of-the-art system that can be relied on in data-based community services.