The Presidential Staff Office (KSP) is designing its own indigenous cloud system, Chief of the office Moeldoko informed.
The plan for the independent cloud system has been formulated with the help of the National Cyber and Encryption Agency (BSSN), state-owned telecommunications enterprise PT Industri Telekomunikasi Indonesia Persero (INTI), and a private company that will provide software for data storage.
The meeting to formulate the plan for the independent cloud system was held on Friday, and was attended by the head of BSSN, Lieutenant General Hinsa Siburian; president director of PT INTI, Edi Witjara; and CEO of PT Dekstop IP Teknologi Indonesia, Phidi Soepangkat, he said here on Monday.
“If we combine this, we will be independent in the cloud department, so that we can protect the data from other people’s intervention. That is what we actually seek in the future,” he explained.
The cloud system Indonesia has used so far was made overseas with machines from other countries, he said.
“We will create our own machine with the encryption that comes from BSSN. PT INTI act as a guarantor that can be sold to the government because PT INTI is state-owned,” he informed.
“The government should utilize this so that we can control everything on our own. The goods already exist, we only need to expand it, which has been implemented by one corporation, namely PT Dekstop,” he added.
However, creating an independent cloud system is a monumental task, which will take a long period of time and hard work, Moeldoko said.
“This plan has not been delivered to the President; I will formulate it first in KSP,” he informed, adding that when the design has been improved, the KSP will present it to the President.
According to Moeldoko, the recent data leak case has become a momentum for the government to bolster Indonesian cybersecurity.
This can be achieved by optimizing domestic technology and by involving experts in cybersecurity, he added.
Source: Antara News