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UGM lecturer phone number allegedly hacked after forming group rejecting KPK Law revision
Rimawan said he had created the WhatsApp group in response to the House of Representatives’ plan to revise the KPK Law.
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UGM academicians, students, and anti-corruption activists pose for a group foto in front of the school's Balairung hall after reading out a joint statement to save the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). (JP/Sri Wahyuni)
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Gadjah Mada University (UGM) lecturer’s phone number has been hacked, with the hackers taking over a WhatsApp group created for a movement that rejects a planned revision of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Law.
The lecturer, Rimawan Pradiptyo of UGM’s School of Economy and Business, said he had created the National Academician Alliance WhatsApp group (WAG) on Sept. 7 but could no longer access it on Sept. 10. The group had gathered the support of some 2,100 academicians nationwide.
“My phone number was hacked,” Rimawan told lecturers, students and anticorruption activists joining a declaration called UGM Says No to Efforts to Weaken the KPK held at the university’s Balairung hall on Sunday.
Rimawan said he had created WAG in response to the House of Representatives’ plan to revise the KPK Law, which many believe would weaken the antigraft body. The plan has been approved by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
“I just want to remind everyone that this way of doing things – hacking or terrorizing – have to be left behind,” Rimawan said, adding that several members of the groups had also received terrorizing calls from unidentified phone numbers.
He said he had also received reports from fellow academicians saying that his hacked phone number had shared a link to a website supporting the KPK Law revision.
“It is now our responsibility [to fight against such practices]. Democracy is our own choice, so never tarnish it,” he said, reminding that differences in opinion was democratic and thus had to be responded democratically, too.
