Cybersecurity expert Alfons Tanujaya hopes that the General Election Commission (KPU) will prepare and ensure the security of all Information System devices and vote counting recapitulation systems, so that they do not experience interference or attacks during the voting on February 14, 2024. “The KPU may need to manage Election Support sites well so that it can accommodate the surge in access traffic which will certainly increase sharply on the D-Day, and at the same time maintain the security and validity of its website data,” Alfons said in a statement quoted on Sunday (11/2/2024).
Alfonso predicted the opportunity for cyber attacks during the election vote counting process could occur at any time.
Perludem called KPPs officers in areas where the Internet is good and not even technical guidance, therefore according to him, the KPU and all state institutions related to cyber security are expected to remain aware of attacks in cyberspace on voting day. He also hopes that the public will actively participate in guarding their votes until the counting process in order to minimize the chances of irregularities, and rely too much on the recapitulation Information System (Sirekap) from the KPU. Pope Francis arrives in East Timor ” so the data on the KPU Sirekap site is only informative and serves to cross-check with the actual data that is recapitulated offline and not directly connected to the internet, so it is expected to be safe from attempts to manipulate the results of the vote count,” Alfons said. Sirekap has been tested since the 2020 simultaneous regional head election (Pilkada). The existence of Sirekap will replace the counting Information System (Situng) which was last used in the 2019 election. Also read: Avoid Potential Fraud, the KPU is asked to ensure security in Sirekap with special technology
the Coordinator of the data and Information Division of the KPU RI, Betty Epsilon Idroos, said that the data documented in Sirekap was different from the Situng used to be. “Situng it is documenting the results of each polling station by scanning (Form) C-results. (Form) C-results in the form of paper, scanned at the KPU level of the Regency/city, using a scanner machine, go to the KPU RI server,” explained Betty on Tuesday (6/2/2024). Form C-this result is based on the result of a copy of form C1 made by the voting organizing group (KPPS) at the polling station level. Meanwhile, in Sirekap later, the data upload process is not carried out at the recapitulation at the district/city level, but directly at the polling station by KPPS through the Sirekap mobile application. Read also: KPU confirms that C1 Plano documentation will still be collected despite using Sirekap “KPPS photographed (Form) C Plano which was carried out directly at the polling station, entered the KPU RI server.
Photographed everything for the five types of ballots (namely) President and vice president, DPR RI, provincial DPRD, DPRD Regency/city, and DPD,” said Betty. Sirekap is equipped with optical mark recognition (OMR) and optical character recognition (OCR) technology. Thus, the patterns and handwriting indicated on the C1 plano form at the polling station, when photographed and uploaded to Sirekap, are instantly recognized and can be converted into numerical data to be sent to the server. In short, Sirekap will read what was photographed, in this case the result of the vote count recorded in the C1 plano form. Read Also: election 2024, KPU believes Sirekap is more transparent than Situng furthermore, said Betty, KPPs officers will verify whether the results of sirekap’s introduction have been precise with the data on the C1 plano form. “Are the results of machine reading the same as the results of his eye reading, that the number two reads Two, Number Three reads number three, number one reads number one and so on,” he explained. “If the number does not read the same, then he has a function to revise what is in the picture, with what he must update,” said the former chairman of the DKI Jakarta KPU. The 2024 election and presidential election campaign period has ended on February 10, 2024. Also read: KPU use Sirekap for the 2024 election replace Situng, this is the difference now that the election and Presidential Election stages are entering a quiet period which is imposed on February 11 to 13, 2024. The voting process will continue with the counting to be held on February 14, 2024.