Observer Emphasizes Election Digitization System Must Be Safe From Hacking

Pratama Persadha/Photo: Antara

SEMARANG - Chairman of the Indonesian Cyber Research Institute CISSReC Pratama Persadha reminded general election organizers to prepare a security system for digitizing elections that is safe from hacking when implementing electronic voting (e-voting). or also make a special polling station (TPS) for e-voting," Pratama Persadha told ANTARA in Semarang, Friday, March 25. general election (election) when meeting with the General Elections Commission (KPU). Johnny during the Election Digitalization Coordination Meeting for the hybridization of Indonesia's digitalization from Bali, Wednesday (23/3), stated that the adoption of digital technology in elections has benefits for realizing effectiveness and efficiency in the process of a long political contestation gitimate, both in the stages of voting, verification of voter identity, voting, vote counting, as well as transmission and tabulation of election results. However, said Pratama Persadha, this election digitization system must be prepared, including its security, so that it is not easy to become a victim of hacking. In addition, it is also related to the readiness of the national data center. "Without a national data center, it will be difficult for e-voting in the country," said Pratama, who was once the Chairman of the National Crypto Agency Team (now BSSN) for Information Technology Security (IT) KPU in 2014 election.

He emphasized that this nation needs a national data center that is safe and thoroughly tested so that later it will not be slow due to full traffic and other technical reasons related to the network and data center. According to him, what is no less important is the readiness of human resources (HR). ) in the field. This is a difficult task for the KPU to educate its officers in the field, both in terms of regulation, technicality, and the security of the system itself." system and community data that it manages," said Pratama. In principle, he said, e-voting must be prepared properly and minimize the possibility of system disturbances from within and outside the country, especially voting via the internet. Therefore, Pratama continued, security must be made the main priority because in various e-voting cases in South America what happened was the hacking of election results. "There must be a strong encryption process with domestically made encryption algorithms. )," he said.