Heaptalk, Jakarta — Minister of Communication and Informatics Budi Arie Setiadi conducted an impromptu inspection at the Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) 2 in South Tangerang, Banten Province.
“Today, I conducted a surprise inspection at one of the PDNS infrastructures outside of Surabaya to ensure that cybersecurity measures are optimally strengthened,” said Minister Budi Arie Setiadi after the working visit on Wednesday (07/17).
During the visit, Budi Arie was accompanied by Acting Director General of Informatics Applications Ismail and officials from the National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) to observe the Cyber Security Center, Working Space, and Temporary Data Center Storage Infrastructure directly. This activity is part of a series of oversight efforts to recover national digital service infrastructure.
The government implemented the data migration recovery scheme to address the ransomware cyber attack on Surabaya’s Temporary National Data Center, or PDNS 2. Budi stated, “I ensure every recovery step is carried out meticulously. This is crucial to ensure that data migration and backup are conducted cautiously.”
Teams from the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, BSSN, PT Telkom Tbk, and all ministries, agencies, and local governments are conducting the recovery efforts for PDNS 2 services. “Inspections and evaluations will continue to be conducted at several other national data infrastructure points in the coming days,” Budi added.
Meanwhile, the Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia stated that 86 services have been restored. “As of July 12, at 5:30 PM Western Indonesia Time, 86 services from 16 ministries, agencies, and local governments have gone live,” said Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Hadi Tjahjanto.
The restored services include licensing services and information services in the form of portals, including scholarship services managed by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology. Since the decryption key was provided by the ransomware group Brain Cipher, Hadi stated that the team is continuing efforts to restore public services as quickly and carefully as possible.
The service recovery process will be divided into three zones based on data handling techniques. “We have divided it into three zones. Data affected by the incident at PDNS 2 is in the red zone and is placed under ‘quarantine.’ Next, it will be transferred to the blue zone for security enhancement and vulnerability scanning before going live. Otherwise, public service data is uploaded to another data center in the green zone, ready for use again,” Hadi concluded.
