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Indonesia’s plan to integrate 27,000 govt apps in one platform welcomed but data security concerns linger

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JAKARTA – Indonesia’s ambitious plan to integrate the government’s 27,000 apps into a single platform will bring convenience to its citizens, but experts warn that data security should not be an afterthought.

The government should consider factoring in cyber-security safeguards for the platform from the get-go, they told The Straits Times, to minimise large-scale data leaks which have plagued Indonesia’s digital services.

Having a single platform to streamline digital services has been a long time coming, Indonesian President Joko Widodo pointed out during its launch on May 27.

With ministers and officials in attendance at the Presidential Palace, he stressed how the government should aim to ease access to its services for citizens’ convenience.

“But how can it be easy when ministries, government bodies and regional administrations have more or less 27,000 applications? 27,000 platforms that all run on their own and work on their own?” Mr Widodo pointed out.

INA Digital – as this single platform initiative is called – aims to make accessing government services online easier for Indonesians, including applying for official documents such as permits for public assembly and driving licences.

As in the case with Singapore’s Singpass, the INA Digital app will provide Indonesians with one single system for signing in to use apps from multiple ministries or government bodies without having to repeatedly input their details.

Indonesia hopes this will eventually halt the use of public funds to develop unnecessary apps.

Mr Widodo decided in 2024 to stop the allocation of 6.2 trillion rupiah (S$516 million) from the state budget for app development.

But beyond the obvious benefits of convenience and cost-effectiveness, INA Digital is an opportunity for Indonesia to ensure a safer digital experience for its people.

“There is a sense of frustration, if not hopelessness, with the way the Indonesian government stewards the personal data of our population,” said Mr Muhammad Habib Abiyan Dzakwan from Indonesian think-tank the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). “And this fatigue reaches the point that no one is surprised when personal data, collected by the government or state-owned enterprises, is leaked or breached.”

In November 2023, a hacker known as Jimbo reportedly breached Indonesia’s General Elections Commission’s database and put voters’ personal data up for sale on black market forums.

This came after another notorious hacker known as Bjorka allegedly leaked the data of 35 million Indonesian passport holders in July that year. Bjorka was also responsible for 2022’s leak of some 3.2 billion data entries regarding users of Indonesia’s official Covid-19 contact tracing app PeduliLindungi, now known as SatuSehat.



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