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akarta: The Communications and Information Ministry is looking to strengthen the country’s defense against cyber threats by learning from other countries’ experiences in an international conference on Internet security, slated to be held in Bali from March 25–31.

“The event is important to raise our awareness about Internet crimes. Ignorance could see us fall prey to Internet crimes. Therefore, we need to share experiences [in fighting Internet crimes],” said Rudi Lumanto, chairman of the Indonesia Security Incident Response Team on Internet Infrastructure (ID-SIRTII) on Tuesday.

The Internet security conference is part of the Asia-Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team Annual General Meeting 2012 and the Technical Colloquium Forum for Incident Response and Security Teams 2012.

Rudi cited a report that found there were 1.5 million attacks targeting government sites every day.

“For example, an attack could hit our country’s banking sectors’ Internet sites that would cause a system breakdown and cause significant losses in the business sector,” he said.

Muhammad Salman, another ID-SIRTII official, said that the government needed to protect other key sectors, like transportation, energy and the military.