Indonesia pushes cybersecurity law as rising ransomware attacks spark concerns over digital transformation
The push for the legislation comes as South-east Asia’s largest economy deals with the fallout from a ransomware attack on its national data centre
[JAKARTA] Indonesia is pushing ahead with a long-awaited cyber-resilience law, seen as an essential long-term solution to tackle escalating cybersecurity issues, following a series of high-profile data breaches.
Meutya Hafid, a lawmaker and chair of the First Commission of the House of Representatives, said the new Bill proposes requiring all government agencies and regional administrations to store their data on regional cloud servers, including private data centres, rather than storing all the information at national facilities. “The law will also push us to have a backup in local data centres,” she told The Business Times (BT).
The proposed law, which includes fines of up to 10 billion rupiah (S$827,627) or up to 10 years in prison for organisations or individuals, is intended to serve as an umbrella for all cybersecurity laws and regulations in Indonesia.
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