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View all search resultsPressure is mounting on the government to restore all public services affected by last week’s ransomware attack on a temporary national data center (PDN) and to improve the security of state digital infrastructure to prevent such cyberattacks in the future.
Communications and Information Minister Budi Arie Setiadi says that the government will not pay the US$8 million ransom demanded by hackers behind the cyberattack on the temporary National Data Center facilities and will fix the impacted services as soon as possible.
Several ministries and government bodies have requested larger budgets to facilitate their relocation to the Nusantara Capital City (IKN) next year, a President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo legacy project that has been hampered by delays, lack of investment and land acquisition problems.
Online gambling is prohibited in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority nation, but last year more than 3 million people engaged in an activity estimated to be worth nearly $20 billion, or about 1.5 percent of gross domestic product.
Communications and Information Minister Budi Arie Setiadi has revived a plan to set up a council to monitor social media content and make these platforms “more accountable”, despite fears over its potential impact on freedom of speech online.
The bill prohibits streaming content displaying violence, mysticism, LGBT or “negative behavior or lifestyles that potentially harm the public”, with violations resulting in fines or license termination.
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