Prevention and enforcement
National Police Chief Gen. Suyudi Ario Seto met with Communication and Digital Minister Meutya Viada Hafid at the Rupatama Building at Police Headquarters in Jakarta. According to ANTARA News, the meeting sought to accelerate joint digital-security work under a memorandum of understanding the institutions signed in April 2026.
Suyudi called for stronger public digital literacy and faster action against online crime. He described digital offenses as deeply troubling to the public and said he hoped stronger security would address growing anxiety about cybercrime, including fraud and hoaxes, Tempo reported.
Meutya said protecting people online was central to the partnership. She outlined reports received by her ministry concerning illegal trading in personal data, scams, online gambling, pornography, cyberbullying, misinformation and hoaxes. The breadth of those problems, she said, required cooperation that combined prevention with law enforcement.
Scam losses and enforcement
At the meeting, Meutya praised police for taking action in under a month against an online gambling network operating both locally and across borders, according to ANTARA News.
Separate figures reported by ANTARA illustrate the extent of digital fraud. From November 2024 through December 2025, the Financial Services Authority (OJK), through the Indonesia Anti-Scam Centre (IASC), recorded more than 411,000 reported cases and losses of Rp9.1 trillion, about $556 million. A Global Anti-Scam Alliance report cited in the same account found that 66 percent of Indonesians had encountered a digital fraud attempt.
The Communication and Digital Ministry handled 141,110 scam reports from 2016 through 2026. Most originated from platforms owned by Meta, ANTARA reported.
For the period from November 2024 through August 2026, OJK and the PASTI Task Force processed 668,441 reports. They verified 1,276,688 accounts and blocked 659,419 of them, according to ANTARA. Their actions froze Rp771.2 billion, about $46.7 million, in illicit funds; victims across 19 banks received repayments totaling Rp206 billion, about $12.5 million.
Cyberattacks and circulating hoaxes
The National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) logged 5.5 billion cyberattacks in 2025, ANTARA reported. That was 714 percent above the annual average for 2020-2024. Another 1.52 billion attacks were recorded from January 1 through April 15, 2026.
The attacks included attempts to steal personal data, commit online fraud and gain unauthorized access to systems. Not every attack led to a data breach.
Hoaxes are another area tracked by the digital ministry. According to Kompas.com, the ministry recorded 16,999 hoaxes on social media from August 1, 2018, through July 29, 2026. Fraud was the largest category, with 3,904, followed by government-related hoaxes at 2,997 and health-related hoaxes at 2,610. The total included 917 recorded from January 1 through July 29, 2026.
Protecting telecommunications infrastructure
Meutya also raised the physical security of digital infrastructure. She said her ministry continued to receive many complaints about internet outages caused by crimes such as cable theft and tampering for resale. Such damage can cut internet access across a region, she said.
According to ANTARA, she also commended police for their handling of thefts of base transceiver station (BTS) equipment that had disrupted public telecommunications services in various parts of Indonesia.
