Director General Of Aptika Kominfo Officially Resigned Due To The PDNS 2 Ransomware Incident

Director General of Aptika Samuel Abrijani Pangerapan (photo: Dinda Buana/VOI)

JAKARTA - After almost eight years, the Director General of Informatics Applications at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Samuel Abrijani Pangerapan officially resigned from his position.

"This is my time to separate. I declare that as of July 1, I have submitted my resignation (resign) to the Minister of Communication and Information," said the man who is familiarly called Semmy at his press conference Thursday, June 4 at the Kominfo Office, Jakarta.

Semmy said that the reason for his resignation was one form of responsibility for the ransomware incident at the Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) 2, which shocked the Indonesian people for the past few days.

"First, the reason is, this incident is technically my responsibility as Director General of Trustees in the process of government transformation," said Semmy to the media crew.

"So I take this responsibility morally, and I say it should be finished with me. Because this is a problem that I should handle well," he continued.

Semmy said that until now, the Minister of Communication and Information Budi Arie Setiadi is still processing his resignation letter. And have not revealed who his successor will be.

Nevertheless, Semmy said that currently the government is still recovering from the PDNS 2 affected by the ransomware.

Semmy said the decryption key provided by the Brain Cipher ransomware group had been tried by the government.