Cybercrime Threat a Growing Concern: Police

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By Lona Olavia
The Jakarta Globe
May 13, 2014

Jakarta -- The chief of the National Police and the head of the Indonesian 
financial watchdog said cybercrime in Indonesia remained a significant 
challenge as Internet use in the country continued to grow.

“Do not be overconfident,” Gen.Sutarman said at a panel discussion in 
Jakarta on Tuesday. “Indonesian hackers will often do things just for the 
sake of it.”

Sutarman said that the increasing popularity of e-commerce in the country 
meant more online transactions were being made, affording an opportunity 
to hackers capable of exploiting security loopholes.

Indonesia has received greater scrutiny from cybercrime authorities in 
recent years, especially since a 2013 survey by Akamai Technologies, an IT 
security firm, reported that Indonesia had overtaken China as the number 
one source of hacking traffic in the world. The dubious honor is not 
necessarily instructive of Indonesia possessing the greatest number of 
cyber criminals, but that international hackers have found soft spots in 
Indonesia’s cyber security from which they can launch attacks.

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