Cyberterrorism and its Prevention in Indonesia

Dian Alan Setiawan Faculty of Law, Universitas Islam Bandung, Indonesia

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Keywords: prevention, cybercrime, cyberterrorism How to cite: Setiawan, D. A. (2020). Cyberterrorism and its Prevention in Indonesia. Jurnal Media Hukum, 27(2), 256–272 Article History: Received: 01-07-2020 Reviewed: 21-08-2020 Revised: 24-08-2020 Accepted: 31-12-2020

In cyberspace, cyber technology gives rise to illegal activities that are legally referred to as cybercrimes. Cybercrime appears in various forms including cyberterrorism. The purpose of this research is to discuss the development of cyberterrorism and to explore the efforts made by the Government in addressing and controlling cyberterrorism in Indonesia. This normative legal research examines the application of the relevant legislation, especially Law No. 19 of 2016 on the Amendment to Law No. 11 of 2008 on Information and Electronic Transactions and Law No. 5 Year 2018 on the Amendment of the Law No. 15 Year 2003 on the Eradication of Crime of Terrorism. It is found that the act of cyberterrorism can be prevented through both technological and legal approaches.

DOI: 10.18196/jmh.20200156

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1. Introduction

In the past 20 years, Criminals have been resorted to the acts of robberies, abductions, car stealing, donations of shares, DVD piracy, and free piracy loans. All of these methods will soon end with the developing cyber technology. Some experts say that this type will become obsolete because it is present in the advancement of Cyber technology. Many aircraft will use fly by wire controls so it makes more sense for criminals to pass hacking into the navigation system and to divert the direction of the plane as wish. The progress of cyberspace science and technology is a necessity in a century of increasingly advanced human civilization.1

Virtual world technology that is connected with many internet networks has a new phenomenon in human interaction in cyberspace. Cyber technology is the use of the internet as a medium for unlimited communication and interaction which then has a negative impact because of the emergence of media through Cyber which is commonly

1 Darlis, A. (2017). Cyber Narcoterrorism. Kompasiana.

https://www.kompasiana.com/andidarlis/590add24b67e61c3109174d6/cyber- (Accessed on February 17, 2020)

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known as Cybercrime. The irresponsible use of cyber technology may amount to a criminal conduct which can potentially pose as threats to the country. The types and violations of Cybercrime vary greatly Including the act of electronic eavesdropping, electronic data theft, online dissemination of pornography, increased illegal funds, handling via the internet, internet gambling, vandalism sites, deletion of damaging systems through viruses, trojans, signal bases and the like appear in shape like that.

The use of “Cyber” for crimes committed by parties who have high ability and expertise in computer science, Cybercrime’s agreement on computer mastery and computer programming to make malware scripts/codes, they can analyze the workings of computer systems and networks, and are able to find a solution for the system will then use this weakness to get into preventative measures such as safekeeping. Cyber is currently also used to launch terror (cyber terrorism). Indoctrination/dogma through Cyber which is able to produce many people for jihad as well as recruitment which is