Presiden Joko Widodo Tanggapi Revisi UU KPK

Ketua KPK Serahkan Tanggungjawab Kepada Presiden

PIDATO KENEGARAAN PRESIDEN REPUBLIK INDONESIA, 16 AGUSTUS 2019

Iraq sets sights on e-commerce opportunities

Iraqi minister of communication, Naeem Al-Rubaie, speaking during the high-level event on e-commerce and the digital economy in Baghdad on 28 July

Iraq is laying the foundations for e-commerce as it rebuilds its infrastructure after years of violence, government officials said during a high-level dialogue on e-commerce and the digital economy on 28 July in Baghdad.

The event kickstarted weeklong consultations that are part of UNCTAD’s assessment of the country’s readiness to engage in e-commerce, the first such exercise in a non-least developed country.

Nearly 100 people drawn from Iraq’s public and private sectors exchanged views on how to overcome the challenges that hinder e-commerce in the war-affected country.

Cybersecurity Pros Name Their Price as Hacker Attacks Swell

By.Anders Melin

 

It took a $650,000 salary for Matt Comyns to entice a seasoned cybersecurity expert to join one of America’s largest companies as chief information security officer in 2012. At the time, it was among the most lucrative offers out there.

This year, the company had to pay $2.5 million to fill the same role.

“It’s a full-on war for cyber talent,” said Comyns, a managing partner at executive search firm Caldwell Partners who specializes in information security. “CEOs know that, so they play hardball. Everyone’s throwing money at this.”

The threat of digital breaches -- and the fines, lawsuits and occasional executive resignations that sometimes follow -- has left companies scrambling to scoop up scarce security experts. The growing compensation packages and broadened responsibilities are a dramatic shift for a group of workers who once confined to obscure IT departments, little more than an afterthought to senior management.

Joko Widodo faces challenges in 2019 Indonesia poll as blank ballots, child marriages spark regional dissatisfaction

Photo: Prabowo Subianto with Indonesia's President-elect Joko Widodo. (Reuters)

Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians in the city of Makassar headed to local election polls to cast a blank vote rather than elect the only pair of candidates from the same coalition, according to quick count surveys.

Key points:

• Votes swung strongly towards Mr Jokowi in West Java
• More than half of Indonesian voters take into account the candidate's religious background
• Jokowi's political opponents had leveraged the feeling of isolation among conservative Muslim voters

And it's not the only city where this has happened — voters in 13 other regions also voluntarily gave up their time to cast a blank vote to protest against the political and economic elites who nominate the candidates.

"It was quite a slap in the face to the establishment … people are very much more focused on the candidate rather than the party," said Tim Evans from governance organisation Kemitraan, an expert on Asian elections.

[Voters' loyalty] to parties is quite rare here, people can switch parties quite easily — often what we see are people looking at performers."

It's good news for a populist style President like Joko "Jokowi" Widodo who is seen as an outsider to the establishment.

However, he faces a serious challenge as he attempts to deal with policies that could give conservative Muslims reason to turn against him.

This was demonstrated by his reluctance to apply a proposed presidential decree, known as "Perppu", to ban child marriages, and in his anti-leftist rhetoric when he denounced the PKI (Communist Party of Indonesia).