Article Review #2
- CYSE 201S
Improving Indonesia’s cybercrime response
Article Review #2
Shekhinah A. Green
March 23, 2024
Old Dominion University
Cybercrime precautions and criminology have massively improved over the years as Cyber crimes have rapidly increased all around the world. In Indonesia, compared to other countries, law enforcement and policies are weaker and ineffective against cyber criminals. The article, “ Cyber Criminology: An Analysis of the Indonesian and the United States Police Perception “ by Mohammad Fadil Imran, claims that the Indonesian police force battles with outdated legislation, lackluster training, and limited resources and the public is unaware of cybersecurity practices. Overall this makes it impossible for improvement in regulating cyber crime.
This topic relates to social science because cyber crimes increase and decrease directly affects people, organizations, and businesses. It deals with human behaviors regarding computers and social cyber aspects. The article describes that “the police play a pivotal role in addressing digital offenses’’(p.3) Once that protection is gone, the societal trust in computer systems is gone and the trust in those who are meant to protect like police and the government is gone . The main question is how can Indonesia improve and use influences from the United States and other countries with effective policies, advanced training, and spreading public knowledge. This article’s main purpose is to explore the perspectives of police involvement, cybercrime laws, and legislation of other countries to benefit Indonesia. The research methods used in this analysis were scholarly investigations of criminal activity, other countries’ cyber frameworks, cyber policies, and acts. Analyzing Cyber laws and legislations from Japan, Singapore, China, India, Turkey, and Russia shows that there are other countries with cyber laws that focus on certain offenses and deal with them in different ways. Researching Indonesia and the United States similarities and differences in government may be used to aid Indonesia’s improvement.
With growth comes funding, which can be used towards enhancing the police force and further protecting the country’s technology. This study directly relates to module 9“ Culture, Social Media and Cybersecurity”, specifically to developing a cybersecurity culture. Based on the article, Indonesia needs to further develop. Though influence from the West serves as a good example for Indonesia, if they create a cyberculture of their own, it will greatly improve society and leave open interpretation and ideas from Indonesian legislation and citizens. Quoting from Module 9 “The Main objective of cybersecurity culture is to develop and implement a cybersecurity culture ecosystem to support cybersecurity”(slide.9). Implementing a cybersecurity culture can provide an education and training roadmap for those who need security structures like businesses, organizations, and most importantly law enforcement. Overall society takes a huge economic impact from an increase in cybercrime. It results in financial loss, and loss of businesses, which affects the government. However small businesses and low-income citizens take a critical hit financially. Without the proper protection and precautionary measures, businesses and society will fail.
This study contributes to addressing the effects of cyberlaw in society. Cyber law is crucial because it protects all data from potential theft and loss. In Conclusion this article also shows that even the most advanced society with advanced technology can have cracks in their system that can be jeopardized if not fixed. Direct evidence of cyber laws in Europe and Asia pinpoints specific laws that reduce/ supervise cyber offenses like hacking and scamming can decrease cyber issues. To improve Indonesia’s cybersecurity they need to update their training and cyber security education and publicize basic cybersecurity practices.
Imran, Mohammad F. “Cyber Criminology: An Analysis of the Indonesian and the United States Police Perception.” International Journal of Cyber Criminology 17, no. 2 (2023): 1-12. Accessed March 24, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5281.