Cyber Security Regulation in Indonesia
Bambang Pratama, Mohammad Bima Sangga Prano, Iron Sarira, Besar, Batara Mulya Hasibuan

Business Law Program, Faculty of Humanities, Bina Nusantara University

Abstract

In the industry 4.0 the use of information and communication technology (ICT) already shift to the critical infrastructure sector. The use of communication networks providing some merit for data processing to control automatically critical infrastructure. However, the use of information and communication technology to operate critical infrastructure can cause problems, if the system shut down by cyberattack by other country or some of group hackers. Tallin Manual in Estonia, Malware Stuxnet in Iran^s nuclear reactors, are some example of cyber terrorism, the development of this cyberspace invasion indirectly cause cyber war, and the effect of cyber war is much more dangerous than the conventional war. In Indonesia, cyber regulation explicitly regulates under Information and Electronic Transaction (hereinafter ITE Law), but the regulation is not comprehensively anticipated cyber war and cyber security. In the middle of legal gap, that doesn^t mean there is no regulation to regulate cyber security. Depart from the question of cyber security, this paper tried to resolve and interpret Indonesian regulation regarding cyber security. The findings from this paper indicate that cyber security in not stand-alone concept, because it needs sovereignty concept to support. From the general and particular concept this paper tries to provide legal overview in cyber security to anticipate cyber-attack from foreign and domestics. The expectance of this paper in the future, when the government issues a rule of law on cyber sovereignty, then this article can be one of the references to draw up the rule of law.

Keywords: Cyber, Security, Law, Sovereignty

Topic: Economic, Business and Technology