Armed Forces enter cyberspace world<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Armed Forces and the defense ministry have
\nentered the cyberspace age, hooking up to the Internet.<\/p>\n
Now, the two institutions are planning to jointly develop
\ntheir own data base system, to be called Hankamnet, Commodore Sri
\nDiharto, the defense ministry's chief of database information,
\nsaid yesterday.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a seminar on defense and security information
\nnetworks, Diharto said the ministry and the Armed Forces are
\nalready using the Internet to obtain information about
\ndevelopments overseas. "We can learn a lot of things about
\nscience and technology, defense and security matters through the
\ninternet global network," he said.<\/p>\n
The Indonesian military is also supplying information to the
\nnetwork about defense and the military, although the data
\nprovided is of a strictly "thematic" nature, he said.<\/p>\n
He added that the military also uses the Internet to counter
\n"negative information" about Indonesia that circulates on the
\ncomputer network.<\/p>\n
Diharto said the Internet has been used by "anti-Indonesia"
\ngroups to discredit the government and the military.<\/p>\n
As an example of false information that has found its way onto
\nthe internet, he said the recent "home-page" of the U.S. Central
\nIntelligence Agency described Harmoko, the chairman of
\nIndonesia's ruling political organization, as a retired Army
\nlieutenant general.<\/p>\n
More recent examples of "negative information" include
\ncriticisms of the Indonesian military's presence in East Timor,
\nAceh and Irian Jaya, he said.<\/p>\n
He said Indonesia has no choice but to enter the cyberspace
\nage. "Whether we like it or not, we have to adapt to the drastic
\nadvances in information and communications technology. We will be
\nleft behind otherwise," he said.<\/p>\n
He said the Armed Forces and the defense ministry's planned
\nHankamnet database would provide accurate thematic information on
\nthe military to the public.<\/p>\n
"Through the (Hankamnet) network, interconnecting all
\ninformation centers in the ministry and ABRI (Armed Forces),
\neveryone will have access to information on defense and
\nsecurity," he said.<\/p>\n
The defense ministry's Director General for Planning and
\nBudgetary Affairs Rear Admiral Jusuf Effendi said an integrated
\ninformation system is vital to strengthen the management of the
\nArmed Forces.<\/p>\n
Despite budgetary limitations, the Armed Forces will have to
\nset up a modern data base system for include military and
\nintelligence information, he said. (rms)<\/p>",
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