Monday, Minister of Communication Request Operator Report Tapping

JAKARTA - Tapping that allegedly occurred in the Indonesian telecommunication service provider so the Indonesian government's attention. Through the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Indonesia (Kemenkominfo) and the Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Body, the government also asked the operators to report the results of their investigation on Monday (16/03/2015) future.

"I think something like this will be discussed Monday, all related to wiretapping," said Head of Public Relations Ismail Cawidu Kemenkominfo in a brief message to KompasTekno, Saturday (14/03/2015).

"On Monday, a limited meeting with ITRB (Indonesian Telecommunications Regulatory Agency). From the discussion of the report of their investigation into the reference as to what follow-up," he added.

The operators are called to submit the results of its investigations, among others, Telkomsel, Indosat, XL Axiata, Tri, Smartfren, and Esia. "All mobile operators. Telkom did not," said Ismail.

The latest news about the intercepts contained in the document titled "Intro to the VPN Exploitation Process," Snowden Archive uploaded to the site. The site itself contains confidential documents ever revealed by Edward Snowden, a former NSA employee contract that is now leaking secrets of internet security.

Page 42 documents in the form of a presentation file that mentions that the National Security Agency (NSA) known to have tapped into a variety of financial institutions in various countries, one of Bank Negara Indonesia. The document also mentions the tapping is done using track virtual private network (VPN) from Telkom Flexi network.

Other financial institutions entering the tapping operation target is Kabul Bank. Password institutions of the United States was also called successful government agencies spying on other countries, such as Mexico and Turkey.

In addition to financial institutions, other documents belonging to Snowden also revealed that the NSA has security encryption key on the SIM card made by Gemalto. In addition to the NSA, the same key is also owned by the British secret agent agency, GCHQ.

According to this document, the "key" encryption owned, NSA and GCHQ can do phone tapping without first making a warrant, ask the permission of the mobile communications service provider, or parties outside the government.

The Gemalto SIM card Artificial also used by more than 450 mobile operators around the world, including Indonesia.

Besides tapping against banking institutions and artificial Gemalto SIM card, Snowden documents also reveal the tapping of the Government of New Zealand to the cellular operators in Indonesia, Telkomsel.

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