JAKARTA: On Friday, June 28, Indonesian President Joko Widodo issued an order to audit government data centres. This came after officials claimed that a recent ransomware cyberattack had affected a large amount of data that was not backed up, making the nation vulnerable to such attacks.
Last week, Indonesia experienced its largest cyberattack in recent memory, which disrupted several government services, including immigration and major airport operations. Indonesia’s state auditor responded to the cyberattack by stating that the president had instructed it to look into the nation’s data centers.
Muhammad Yusuf Ateh, the head of Indonesia’s Development and Finance Controller (BPKP), stated that the audit would address “governance and the financial aspect” following a cabinet meeting by Widodo on Friday.
According to Hinsa Siburian, the head of Indonesia’s cyber security agency, also known by its abbreviation BSSN, 98% of the public data kept in one of the two compromised data centers was not backed up. We see that the primary issue is governance, and there is no backup,” he said late on Thursday at a parliamentary hearing.
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