Kapuk Muara Village Staff Suspected Of Burglary PeduliLindung App Is Fired

Metro Jaya Police Chief Inspector General Fadil Imran held a press conference to arrest the PeduliLindung burglar/Rizky Adytia-VOI

JAKARTA - Head of Head of Kapuk Muara, Penjaringan, Central Jakarta, Jason Simanjuntak, dismissed the staff who became suspects in the case of burglary of vaccination data on the PeduliLindung website.

"We have terminated him as of September 2. He was dismissed because of his criminal case", Jason said when contacted, Friday, September 3.

Jason said that the former staff with the initials HH was a non-PNS employee in the administrative division of the sub-district. HH has been working for four years.

Jason admitted that he did not know when HH committed the data breach. As far as Jason knows, HH has always been honest.

"He is a good person, smart in his work. What I know is that he is honest in our work. We just don't know, right", he said.

Previously, Metro Jaya Police arrested two people who broke into the PeduliLindung website data to produce a vaccine certificate. One of the perpetrators is a staff member of the Kapuk Muara Village, North Jakarta.

"Two actors share roles, one as a marketing officer who sells to the public through a Facebook account and after getting an order, the next actor makes it", said Metro Jaya Police Chief, Inspector General Fadil Imran.

The two suspects are FH (24) a private employee who owns a Facebook account by the name of Tri Putra Heru and HH (30) as a staff of Kapuk Muara Village, North Jakarta.

In the action, the suspect is HH who is the mastermind of the crime. Because he offered to produce a vaccine certificate.

"After communication with the Facebook account, it was discovered that the account was selling vaccine certificates without going through vaccination and could be directly connected to PeduliLindung with the price of a vaccine certificate card at IDR 370 thousand", said Fadil.

After FH gets a customer, the customer data will be given to the suspect HH. He will retrieve the population identification number (NIK) through the BPJS (health insurance) data which is connected to the PeduliLindung site.

"The perpetrator (HH) has access to population data. The perpetrator has access and then cooperates with his partner to sell it to the public", said Fadil.

"After (HH) gains access to the NIK, then the person concerned makes a vaccine certificate by using a password and user name (at PeduliLindung)", continued Fadil.

From the results of the examination, it was known that the two suspects had sold 93 vaccine certificates. In addition, the police also arrested those who ordered vaccine certificate services, namely AN (21) and DI (30). They are known to order the service to fulfill the requirements for activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"These two play a role in purchasing certificates without being vaccinated on the Facebook account that I mentioned above. Tri Putra Heru is priced at IDR 350 thousand, one for IDR 500 thousand", said Fadil.

For their actions, the suspects are threatened with 6 years in prison and a fine of IDR 600 million. As referred to in Article 30 of Law Number 19 of 2016 concerning amendments to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning information and electronic transactions (ITE).

As well as being suspected of violating Law 32 Number 19 of 2016 concerning people who intentionally and without rights violate the law in any way change, add, reduce, repeat transmission, hide electronic information and or electronic documents belonging to other people or public property.