JakartaPost-Mar 2
A barrage of complaints over apparent data breaches in the 2024 voter roll and inaccuracies in a new tabulation platform has cast further doubt on the integrity of the already troubled General Elections Commission (KPU) and its ability to reliably determine the results of the 2024 election. Shortly after the start of the national vote tabulation process on Wednesday, KPU chairman Hasyim Asy’ari suspended the proceedings for several hours as all seven of the election body’s commissioners were obligated to attend an ethics hearing held by the Election Organization Ethics Council (DKPP) regarding an investigation into alleged voter roll data leaks. The allegations emerged in November 2023 after an online account called Jimbo posted on the online hacker platform BreachForums that they were looking to sell 204.8 million pieces of unique data from Indonesia’s voter list. To prove the authenticity of the data, the account shared 500,000 data points, consisting of voters’ full names, genders, places and dates of birth and ID and family card numbers. A person identified as Rico Nufiansyah Ali filed a complaint with the DKPP over the alleged breach, demanding that all seven KPU commissioners be fired for what he said was unaccountable and unprofessional behavior that led to the data leak. At the Wednesday hearing, the KPU commissioners called the accusations leveled against them “groundless” and insisted that the commission had taken appropriate steps to protect voter roll data “in a professional and accountable manner”. The KPU also insisted that it was working closely with law enforcement, including the National Cyber and Encryption Agency (BSSN) and the National Police’s cybercrime unit, to investigate the alleged breach. Read more at: https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2024/03/02/kpu-accused-of-negligence-amid-tech-failures.html.
