eHAC Application Data Allegedly Leaked, What About PeduliLindungi?

Ilustrasi (Ilham Amin / VOI)

JAKARTA - Member of the House of Representatives (DPR) Commission IX, Netty Prasetiyani Aher, assessed that the alleged leak of the Ministry of Health's eHAC application data would have an impact on decreasing public confidence in similar applications issued by the government. Along, with this pandemic, people are required to download certain applications to be able to access public services.

"People are administratively forced to use certain applications, but the security of their data is not guaranteed by the government", Netty told reporters, Wednesday, September 1.

Netty also questioned the security of data in the PeduliLindungi application, which is a condition for traveling during Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM).

"How is data security in the PeduliLindungi application? Is there a guarantee that data will not leak?", asked Netty.

The deputy chairman of the PKS Party faction reminded that the government must provide evidence of security guarantees, not just promises.

"Don't blame it if people are suspicious and reluctant using the PeduliLindungi application", she said.

"If people are reluctant to participate in filling out data, it will be increasingly difficult to monitor community mobility efforts to control case transmission. The same goes for monitoring people who have been vaccinated or not", she continued.

According to Netty, data leaks if misused can certainly cause chaos in the validity of COVID-19 data. Like some time ago, the government issued the death rate from the COVID-19 handling indicator on the grounds that the data input was invalid.

"Then, what if there is a data leak and then it is misused to create chaos?", said Netty.

Therefore, Netty asked the government to immediately resolve the case and evaluate the data application system as a whole. Given that people's data leaks have occurred several times.

"Since 2020 we have heard about leaks of Social Security Administration (BPJS) data, ID Number (NIK) data, cellphone number data, and other data. Why can this happen again and again? Has the government not learned from the experience? Could it be that the government has been 'ignorant' with people's anxiety about security guarantees", she explained.

As a form of public accountability, said Netty, the government should apologize to the people. In addition, the Government must involve the security forces to investigate this cybercrime so that the hackers are caught and punished.

"Admit the mistakes and weaknesses of the management and apologize to the people. Improve the system by involving experts who are able to protect the security of the application system. There are many smart and smart children of the nation", concluded Netty.