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Indonesia produces nearly half of the world’s nickel, a mineral in hot demand to produce renewable energy technologies. The country’s dominance over nickel production is set to grow further. Newly elected president, Prabowo Subianto is pursuing an aggressive nickel downstreaming policy as he eyes 8 per cent economic growth when he takes office. However, downstreaming – that is, moving beyond extraction to process raw materials into semi-finished products – faces a plethora of environmental, social, and labour challenges, and Indonesian policymakers are responding to pressure to reduce the impact of the industry’s growth ambitions. The Indonesian Ministry of National Development Planning and…
In the wake of Law No. 27 of 2022 on Personal Data Protection (“PDP Law”), organizations and companies in Indonesia are subject to a stringent set of regulations aimed at safeguarding the personal data they handle. This legislation introduces numerous obligations for entities acting as Personal Data Controllers or Processors, necessitating robust measures to protect the personal data collected from customers, clients, employees, and other relevant parties. Failure to adhere to the provisions outlined in the PDP Law can result in substantial penalties, including fines of up to IDR 60 billion or 2% of annual revenue, underscoring the gravity of…
JAKARTA – Key members of the terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) in Indonesia have dissolved the organisation but analysts caution that the threat posed by the group, which has claimed responsibility for a string of deadly attacks in the region, remains potent. In a video declaration made at the National Counter Terrorism Agency in Bogor, near Jakarta, on June 30, its senior leader, Abu Rusdan, said that JI’s senior council and the leaders of the group’s affiliated Islamic boarding schools “have agreed to declare the dissolution of the JI and return to Indonesia’s embrace”. Abu Rusdan, a militant cleric and…
July 5, 2024Hacker newsCloud Security / Attack Surface The attack surface isn’t what it used to be, and it’s becoming a nightmare to defend. The ever-expanding and evolving attack surface means that the risk to businesses has increased dramatically, and today’s security measures are struggling to protect it. If you have clicked on this article, there is a good chance that you are looking for solutions to manage this risk. In 2022, Gartner developed a new framework to address these issues – Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). Since then, the implementation of this framework has become a priority for many…
July 3, 2024 JAKARTA – Authorities are scrambling to restore public trust in the security of the country’s digital infrastructure and citizens’ personal data after a recent ransomware attack on a temporary national data center (PDN) disrupted a slew of public services over the past week. Communications and Information Minister Budi Arie Setiadi has repeatedly apologized to the public for the nationwide disruption to services connected to the attack, with the latest apology made on Monday at a media event. These were followed by the announcement of mitigation steps overseen by Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Hadi Tjahjanto,…
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s start-ups are struggling to compete against their cash-rich foreign rivals, with the nation’s two largest unicorns GoTo and Bukalapak seeing their valuations slide substantially in 2024. Investment in local start-ups has also slowed by about two-thirds, from around US$3.5 billion (S$4.8 billion) annually in 2020 and 2021, according to a November 2023 joint report by venture fund AC Ventures and management consultancy Bain & Company. This places more pressure on local companies to innovate, stop burning cash and become profitable, say analysts. GoTo, formed by the merger of ride-hailing firm Gojek and e-commerce giant Tokopedia in…
F5 and Telkom agreed to work together to provide comprehensive cybersecurity services to organizations in Indonesia Telkom Indonesia has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with cybersecurity firm F5 with the main goal of collaborating on cybersecurity services and strengthen Telkom’s own security capabilities, the latter said in a release. Under the terms of the strategic collaboration, the Asian carrier and F5 agreed to work together to provide comprehensive cybersecurity services to organizations in Indonesia via Telkom’s B2B Digital IT Services arm. Telkom Indonesia’s strategic portfolio director Budi Setyawan Wijaya, said: “The need for cybersecurity in the future will increase…
(Bloomberg) — An official of Indonesia’s information technology ministry resigned as the government continues an audit of its data centers in the wake of the nation’s worst cyberattack.Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, director-general for applications and information at the Communications and Information Technology Ministry, stepped down on Thursday, following last month’s massive hack that crippled government services from airports to scholarships. Pangerapan said he was “morally responsible.”The attack hit more than 280 agencies — most of whom saw their data wiped out. The hacker group that claimed responsibility has since unexpectedly apologized and released a key for unlocking the stolen data, even…
July 5, 2024Information hallNetwork security / DDoS attack French cloud computing firm OVHcloud said it mitigated a record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in April 2024 that reached a packet rate of 840 million packets per second (Mpps). This is slightly higher than the previous record of 809 million Mpps reported by Akamai as a major European bank in June 2020. The 840 Mpps DDoS attack is said to have been a combination of a TCP ACK flood originating from 5,000 source IP addresses and a DNS mapping attack using around 15,000 DNS servers to pump traffic. “Although the attack was…
A cyber attack in Indonesia that’s been called the worst in years exposed a critical mistake in the country’s information technology policy. Almost none of the data in one of the two data centers hit by the ransomware attack is backed up, meaning it cannot be restored other than by decrypting the affected servers’ storage systems.The attack happened on June 20, when a “non-state actor” compromised Indonesia’s Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) using a variant of the LockBit 3.0 malware called Brain Cipher. This software not only extracts sensitive data but also encrypts it on the servers. The attacker has…