Indonesia: NGO, its director target of hacking
Event- Country
- Indonesia
- Initial Date
- Feb 12, 2022
- Event Description
Translation types Text translation Source text 3,365 / 5,000 Translation results Komnas HAM Commissioner Beka Ulung Hapsara revealed the findings of the field after visiting Wadas Village, Bener District, Purworejo Regency on Saturday (12/2/2022). From the results in the field, his party said that it was true that there was violence perpetrated by the police against local residents. Traumatized residents "What we found was that there was violence perpetrated by the authorities, then residents were still traumatized," he said when contacted on Sunday, February 13. Komnas HAM also asked Ganjar to focus on trauma recovery for Wadas Village residents, especially for women and children. "It's also about security guarantees, no more intimidation, then no threats or coercion," he said. According to Beka, Ganjar accepted these proposals. "He (Ganjar) claimed responsibility for yesterday's incident and will follow up on Komnas HAM's advice," said Beka about the incident in Wadas Village. LBH's social media and activists were hacked. "This pattern of attacks such as hacking often happens to human rights defenders who are critical of public policies. This is not an ordinary crime such as illegal access or hacking, but this is a backlash that can endanger the lives of human rights defenders," said the Executive Director of the Legal Aid Institute. (LBH) Press Ade Wahyudin, quoted from Tempo. The initial hack took place against the Director of LBH Yogyakarta, Yogi Zul Fadhli on Saturday, February 12, 2022. At 15:34, Yogi received an incoming message from WhatsApp that contained his number being registered on a new device along with the WhatsApp code info. Yogi then opened the WhatsApp application and received a notification that his number was no longer registered on WhatsApp. According to WhatsApp, he had registered the number on another phone. Even though he was not registering his phone number on another device. Yogi is trying to take over his WhatsApp again. At 15:44, WhatsApp he was back. On the same day at a different time, the cellphone of a contact person for a press conference of a civil society network in solidarity with the Wadas residents was also hacked. Dean, the name of the owner of the cellphone, cannot open messages on WhatsApp with a locked description. Dean then decided to leave the WhatsApp group which consisted of the civil society network. The hack made it difficult for activists who were in solidarity with Wadas residents to communicate with each other. As a result, some group conversations are disabled. LBH Yogyakarta's Instagram cannot be accessed Previously, LBH Yogyakarta's Instagram account was also inaccessible on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, at 23.20 WIB. The account uploaded content about the arrest of Wadas Village residents by the police. Even though it was hacked, now the LBH Yogyakarta Instagram account has recovered. Ade does not want to conclude who is behind the hack, but the public can judge for themselves. "It is difficult to conclude who the perpetrator is. But in fact, there was an attack and it coincided with Wadas' advocacy," he said. LBH Yogyakarta has been accompanying Wadas residents who have refused to mine andesite rocks. Chaos ensued in Wadas Village at the beginning of last week. A number of Wadas residents were arrested because they insisted on refusing to have their land measured and released for andesite mining.
- Impact of Event
- 2
- Gender of HRD
- Man
- Other (e.g. undefined, organisation, community)
- Violation
- Online Attack and Harassment
- Rights Concerned
- Internet freedom
- Freedom of expression
- Online
- Right to healthy and safe environment
- Right to privacy
- HRD
- NGO
- NGO staff
- Perpetrator-State
- Unknown
- Perpetrator-Non-State
- Unknown
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: -7.824711405409987
Longitude: 110.36369727541339
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
On 12 February 2022, Yogi Zul Fadhli, Director of the NGO LBH Yogyakarta, had his WhatsApp temporarily hacked, days after the NGO Instagram was also deactivated in correspondence of a key advocacy activity by unknown authors in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.