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A former senior official of the communications ministry has been detained as a suspect for allegedly receiving an estimated Rp 11 billion in bribes related to a rigged tender for the PDNS development project, which has been linked to last year's ransomware attack that led to a nationwide disruption of public services, including immigration processes.
An indictment from Attorney General’s Office (AGO) prosecutors alleged Budi Arie Setiadi, who once served as the communications and information minister, of accepting half of total kickbacks received from online gambling operators.
The plaintiff of the lawsuit argues that Communications and Information Minister Budi Arie Setiadi has failed to prevent and mitigate the impacts of the ransomware attack on the temporary national data center (PDN) sites that led to disruptions of hundreds of public services.
The communications ministry is drafting a gaming industry regulation that requires foreign developers to have a local presence and carries certain sanctions, but local developers say that could have the opposite effect of stifling industry growth and hampering global access.
In its latest bid to clamp down nationwide on the scourge of online gambling, the government plans to put a daily cap on mobile phone credit transfers and block access to free VPN services that it says are enabling the illicit practice.
Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Hadi Tjahjanto said that data for 30 public services overseen by 12 ministries had been recovered using a "decryption strategy" without elaborating.
As public anger over the failure to prevent the ransomware attack on a temporary national data center facility in late June starts to wane, experts and civil groups have urged the government to be transparent about its progress in recovering the impacted databases.
