Title : Cyber Crimes and Future E-Commerce Indonesia
Authors:
- Dicky Andriyanto
Department : Accounting
Opinion:
Cyber crime cases that hamper public activity occurred again after the National Data Center (PDN) was attacked by hackers using ransomware.
Ransomware crime is a cyber crime where the perpetrators/hackers ask for some money by controlling important data or blocking while accessing the important files of a company or country.
This crime was experienced by the cities in Texas, United States, in 2019, where they were once threatened to provide millions of dollars after the ransomware given the nickname Sodikinibi disrupted the computer data system in that area.
Cyber crimes that occur in Indonesia today are not the first time. Previous events had been experienced by the Bjorka case, the term hacker who hacked a number of important data in Indonesia in 2022.
The theft of data that has recently happened, reminded a statement from a University of Sheffield academic named Clive Humby (2006) who once said "data is the new oil". It can be interpreted that data has a valuable value like oil which at that time was a product with a high price.
The statement ultimately became a fact that currently the data/company data is a commodity with a high value and can be sold to parties who need like oil commodities.
Data has become an asset is very important for all countries and business entities in the world because in it there is all vital information regarding the secret of the state or company, so its existence must be kept secret and secured as strict as possible.
The impact of cyber crime tends to quickly expand and hamper all forms of community activities that have depended on most of its activities using technology, for example it can be observed in the digital -based economic aspects.
In terms of economy and business, as it is known that the majority of the economy in Indonesia has now been supported by technological forces or better known as e-commerce. Moreover, the MSME sector is the largest e-commerce user with a total of 22 million business units and produces a transaction value of Rp 476.3 trillion (Kemenkop-UKM, 2023).
Furthermore, a study from Google, Temasek, Bain and Company (2023) has projects that Indonesia's digital economy continues to experience a significant increase in 2025 worth US $ 109 billion and in 2030 worth US $ 210 billion indicates that the Indonesian digital -based economic and business climate is very potential and becomes a new foundation of state revenue.
This good potential must be fully supported by the state so that investors are increasingly interested in investing in Indonesia because they know that their economic digitalization runs massively. So, in addition to building a "sky toll" as launched by the government, increased data security should not be ruled out because data has a high level of vulnerability to be hijacked.
Building a digitalization climate does require a lot of costs, even Alibaba as a leading digital business platform company in the world plan to issue a budget of 1.2 billion dollars to build data centers in Vietnam in 2030 in order to reach business and improve service quality.
The next question is how to develop marketplace, especially in Indonesia, maintaining data security amid the risk of current and future data theft? No matter how sophisticated the technology used such as cloud, AI, big data, and others, still presents risks that should be watched out for.
Conceptually, there are 3 ways to minimize cyber crime that can threaten the sustainability of e-commerce, including the first step is the marketplace company as the provider of platforms/digital market applications analyzing security risks as the main pillars in building data security systems. Security analysis aims to assess the level of data security to the risk of theft.
Security analysis efforts can be done by testing system security to protect data and improve the ability of the system to detect ransomware and other system virus variants. The second step is to build security capabilities by establishing basic security, mitigation of protection against inherent/innherent risk (for example: not optimal security system performance because the version has been long) and external risks (for example: hackers), as well as comprehensive data security increases. Basic security to anticipate minor threats such as viruses that cause problem platforms by reaching data regularly, tracking the location of the problem, and restoring as soon as possible so as not to hamper transaction activities.
Risk mitigation is done by designing a security system to get to know the type of risk and report to the system manager to be given treatment immediately. The third step is risk management to sort out risks that can threaten data security, so that it can be immediately followed up according to the security system and improve data security through the renewal of the security system regularly.
The problem of data hacking has become a serious threat in the 4.0 era, then developing a security system is a necessity that needs to be maximized by the marketplace manager to maintain the confidentiality of the user data. It should be underlined, that the more sophisticated the data security system will be accompanied by the more sophisticated how to hack.
Do not let the case that has occurred in one of Indonesia's leading e-commerce, Tokopedia, which was allegedly there are 91 million data on leaking users in 2020 repeated. This ultimately gave rise to some negative impacts such as distrust, discomfort, and reducing the interest of people to use technology in transactions.
Even investors who wish to give their investment to the marketplace company will turn their eyes off to other parties after assessing cyber security in Indonesia is still weak. Therefore, the renewal of regular data security systems must always be improved for the convenience of all stakeholders such as sellers and buyers.
Government participation is needed to help guarantee the smooth and security of business data so that economic flows, especially at the lower middle level such as MSMEs that use the most e-commerce, do not lose their market share. We cannot prize only in one security system, but we need to innovate the security system, monitoring, and continuous evaluation so that the future of e-commerce in Indonesia is maintained.
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