Carter Hendrick
CYSE 201
3/27/2024
Article Review #2: Preventing and Combating Cybercrime in Indonesia
Intro:
This article by Mohammad Fadil Imran focuses on the different ways cybercrime is being fought in Indonesia. This is an extensive investigation that shows everything from laws to programs used to prevent many different cybercrimes and also actions that may not be cybercrimes but are harmful such as cyberbullying and spreading false, hateful, information.
Relating to the Social Sciences:
The first thing I want to mention is that there is a lot of information provided from an unbiased point of view, this article shows the negative effects of cybercrime and how to prevent it. When talking about events and articles they are always cited and not taken out of context. This shows objectivity. Also, this information is explained and cited making it easy to understand and check the sources used by Imran in his article. By reading this article I was able to learn and understand a lot about the actions taken to prevent cybercrime such as when explaining the legal frameworks put in place in Indonesia by the KUDP (Indonesian: Book of Criminal Law) on page 6. He gives a summary of the article without losing the meaning. I believe that this and the way he explains the other issues in the article show exceptional parsimony. The last principle I want to highlight in this article is empiricism. As I will touch on in the next segment, Imran does his research using many literary sources that he uses to back up his points and directly uses “Laws, regulations, and court cases” as his primary sources and then uses other works from peer-reviewed journals to online academic studies to reinforce his findings.
Research methods used:
Imran states on page 5 that there is a research gap about the topic of the article, and he aims to fix that. Imran’s questions were “What laws and protections have been put in place to keep people safe” and “What effect have these regulations had on cybercrime in Indonesia”. His research method as touched on before uses laws and other official legal documentation to show what has been put in place to protect the people of Indonesia from cybercrime. After stating the protections put in place, he then uses his secondary sources to organize and study data about the effects that the laws and regulations have had. From his research, he also formulated a list of actions that he thinks should be focused on to better protect the public from cybercrime.
How this article helps marginalized groups:
This article brings up two groups from the beginning that face a lot of exploitation and danger online, this being children and adolescents. On the second page, Imran states that Indonesia struggles with internal cyberbullying that goes as far as the dissemination of harmful content. This is very important due to how easy it is to harm someone using cyberbullying and how it could ruin the rest of someone’s life if a cyberbully were to spread lies about a child. Due to how social media works that child or teenager would have to carry a stigma and could be mistreated by not only other children but also adults. More than just socially, children are extremely vulnerable targets for many different scams, especially young boys. Not just in Indonesia but all over the world, young curious boys end up downloading viruses due to trying to access lewd content online via fake ads, bot messages on social media, and even real people trying to convince them of the link they sent them would bypass parental locks. It is more important now than ever to protect and monitor children and teens online.
Conclusion:
Mohammad Fadil Imran has written a very good and informative article that could be referenced by many as it fills the gap of research that was left for this topic. After reading the article I felt that I could both understand and trust the information that Imran put in front of me. I trust his research method and he uses his secondary sources liberally to reinforce the points found by his primary sources. As I said earlier in my review, Imran gives a list of priorities that he thinks should be focused on by the Indonesian government to mitigate cybercrime and I could not agree more. His priority is raising awareness of cybersecurity risks to the general population and giving resources to help them protect themselves. His second focus involves training individuals to understand and respond to cyber threats. I think these are two of the most important things we could do to protect ourselves in the modern age. To finish off my review I will leave a simple statement. This article is well written, properly cites its sources, and shows competence in research that I can trust.
Works Cited:
International Journal of Cyber Criminology
Vol 17 Issue 1 January – June 2023
Preventing and combating cybercrime in Indonesia
By: Mohammad Fadil Imran
https://cybercrimejournal.com/menuscript/index.php/cybercrimejournal/article/view/225/87