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Cybersecurity threats in Indonesia decreasing, with AI deployed by both sides

Occurrences of abnormal data traffic, which are used as an indicator of potential network misuse or security attacks, dropped to 976 million last year, well down from the peak of 1.6 billion hit in 2021.

Aditya Hadi

Aditya Hadi

The Jakarta Post

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Prince, a member of the hacking group Red Hacker Alliance who refused to give his real name, uses a website that monitors global cyberattacks on his computer at his office in Dongguan, China's southern Guangdong province, on Aug. 4, 2020. PHOTO: AFP/THE JAKARTA POST

August 31, 2023

JAKARTA – The number of potential cyberattacks against Indonesia’s public and private sector has come down in the past two years, according to data from the National Cyber and Encryption Agency (BSSN).

Occurrences of abnormal data traffic, which are used as an indicator of potential network misuse or security attacks, dropped to 976 million last year, well down from the peak of 1.6 billion hit in 2021.

As of Aug. 27, the agency had only detected around 270 million such abnormalities this year, pointing to a further decline.

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