Government of the Republic of Indonesia

The Government of the Republic of Indonesia includes:

• Indonesian National Police POLICE

History

2024: Indonesia's defence minister elected as country's president

March 20, 2024 in Indonesia announced the results of voting in the presidential elections. The victory was won by the country's Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, who won more than 50% of the vote. Former head of state Joko Widodo could not run for a third term and supported Subianto. Read more here.

2023: Minister of Communications and Information Technology arrested on bribery charges

On May 17, 2023, law enforcement arrested Indonesia the Minister of Communications information technology and the country, Johnny G. Plate. A senior official is suspected of corruption and taking bribes in the supply of telecommunications equipment. More. here

2020: Zoom ban

On April 23, 2020, it became known about the ban on the use of Zoom in the Indonesian government. The local Ministry of Defense saw in this service risks for intercepting the content of conversations.

According to The Jakarta Post , citing an order from Vice Admiral Agus Setiji, Secretary General of the department, the Zoom Meetings video conferencing platform is prohibited from being used for official purposes due to the threat to national security that this product carries.

Government banned Zoom meetings

According to Setiji, "there is information that during meetings through Zoom there may be duplication of traffic to servers to other states, which allows a third party to track the content of negotiations."

The Indonesian Defense Ministry refers to the results of studies that reported a data breach due to the use of the Zoom application.

So, on April 22, 2020, the director of IQReserve, Pavel Myasoyedov, noted that the Zoom video conferencing application has vulnerabilities that could lead to a loss of privacy of conversations.

According to the Wasnington Post, 15,000 Zoom personal videos were publicly available on the Internet. It turned out that conference recordings can be stored on other platforms without the consent of video participants. Among the available videos were business meetings, lessons at school, as well as private conversations.

Agusa Setiji recommended that the authorities find a replacement for Zoom for online conferences in a short time.

Earlier in Indonesia, cases of hacker attacks were recorded while using the Zoom application. On April 16, 2020, during a discussion about the coronavirus COVID-19, held by the National Council for Information and Communication Technologies, obscene images began to appear on the screen.^[1]

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