Heaptalk, Jakarta — Indonesia’s government reported that public service recovery at the Temporary National Data Center had been resolved for 86 services from 16 ministries/agencies.
The Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs, Hadi Tjahjanto, delivered, “This recovery measure was carried out by the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN), PT Telkom Tbk, and active contributions from other tenants. As a result, around 86 services from 16 ministries, institutions, and regional governments managed to go live as of July 12, 2024,”
In his further statement, Hadi explained that several public services successfully restored were licensing and information services in the form of portals. He also revealed that Scholarship services provided by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology have been rejuvenated.
The government has also classified its data retrieval process into three-stage zones, following the data handling techniques, which consist of:
- Red zone: Data affected by the Ransomware attack incident is in the red zone and is in quarantine.
- Blue zone: The government will move data to this zone for security strengthening and vulnerability scanning.
- Green zone: The recovered data in the public service would be uploaded to other data centers into the green zone to be ready for re-utilize.
“The government has performed clearance measures to clean data from suspicious malware or viruses from the recovered data. We also continue reinforcing the security parameters of its infrastructure. Every recovery measure is performed carefully to minimize the coming cyber attacks on our National Data Center.” Hadi concluded.
Previously, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) restored 30 public services affected by a cyber attack on the Temporary National Data Center (PDNS 2). The Ministry has implemented a decryption scheme to gradually and carefully address the problem and restore the assets and services of affected ministries, institutions, and local governments.
“This short-term strategy is an emergency restoration move that will take place in July -August 2024. While in the long-term strategy, we will conduct an audit process until November 2024,” Acting Director General of Information Applications of Indonesia’s Ministry of Technology and Informatics, Ismail, said.
