What data protection? - Editorial - The Jakarta Post

ndonesians are so used to their data being stolen by hackers at this point that most of the time they simply shrug it off, keep calm and carry on. In past cases of data theft, there were few immediate consequences, such as when the account details of 15 million customers of the country's biggest Islamic lender, Bank Syariah Indonesia (BSI), were published online last year or when, in 2021, a flaw in the Health Ministry's COVID-19 app exposed the personal data and health status of 1.3 million people. Last week's data breach was different. The cyberattack that compromised the national data center, which hosts data from at least 210 government agencies, including the immigration office, sent the country back to the pre-internet era, with immigration officers at the country's major airports resorting to using their cell phones to record the passport data of people entering and leaving the...