Low awareness underlies Indonesia’s cybersecurity woes


JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia News Network): Low awareness and accountability among public electronic service providers (ESPs) continue to be the bane of Indonesia’s weak data-protection landscape, experts have said, as protection measures continue to lag behind the nation’s speedy digital transformation.

Despite a barrage of cybersecurity threats and data breaches that have exposed Indonesia’s vulnerabilities, authorities still seem unbothered by the policy divide that has put the personal data of millions of people at risk.

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