The integrity of the General Elections Commission (KPU), which is already in trouble due to an apparent data breach in the 2024 voter rolls and a barrage of complaints over inaccuracies in the new aggregation platform, and ensuring the results of the 2024 elections Further doubts are being cast on the ability to make decisions.
Immediately after the national vote counting process began on Wednesday, KPU Chairman Hashim Asiari announced that all seven members of the electoral commission are obliged to attend an ethics hearing held by the Council for Ethics in Electoral Organizations (DKPP). As a result, the procedure was suspended for several hours. Regarding the investigation into the alleged leak of voter list data.
The allegations surfaced in November 2023 after an online account called Jimbo posted on online hacker platform BreachForums that it was attempting to sell 204.8 million unique data from Indonesian voter lists.
To prove the authenticity of the data, the account shared 500,000 data points consisting of voters’ names, genders, locations, dates of birth, IDs, and family card numbers.
The person, identified as Rico Nufianshar Ali, has filed a complaint with the DKPP for the alleged data breach, and all seven KPU committee members have filed a complaint against the DKPP for the unaccountable and unprofessional conduct that led to the data breach. demanded his dismissal.
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At Wednesday’s hearing, KPU commissioners called the charges against them “baseless” and said the commission took appropriate steps to protect voter roll data in a “professional and responsible manner.” insisted.