Strategic Efforts in Encountering the Cyber Threats in the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic which has been a global health crisis not only posing threats in social, political, and economic sector, but also rising a big threat towards cybercrime. The state’s priority tends to focus in controlling and addressing the pandemic is reducing controlling and surveillance priorities in the other sectors. This lead to the increasing gap of cybercrime to take place by leveraging the situation. Therefore, this policy brief will explain three outlines of policy options that could be taken by the Indonesia’s National Cyber and Code Agency (NCCA) as efforts to optimize the cyber defense and security in facing the cybercrime in the Covid-19 pandemic, which are:   1) Strengthening the cyber defense of Indonesia which is extended to the company and online platform levels; 2) Enhanced cooperation in terms of sharing data in the regional level of ASEAN; and 3) Enhanced the engagement in terms of training, transfer of skill and knowledge in the international level. This policy brief then will recommends a policy to Indonesia’s NCCA that could be applied optimally and effectively so that cyber threats in the time of Covid-19 pandemic could be reduced well with a maximum controlling.