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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, who visited the National Cyber and Encryption Agency’s (BSSN) cyber monitoring system control center in South Jakarta on Tuesday.
During his visit, he held an online meeting with various state and regional bodies’ computer security incident response teams (CSIRTs) to check on their capacity to safeguard their respective databases.
“I want to interact directly with all CSIRTs in Indonesia so that I know how prepared they are to face threats both from outside and within,” Hadi said, as quoted in a statement issued by the office of the coordinating minister.
He determined that 93 of the central government’s 160 bodies as well as 156 of 552 regional administrations had established tech response teams. The senior minister later said the figures represented “significant progress” in enhancing the country’s cybersecurity.