Prabowo will name Nugroho
This afternoon, Prabowo will name Nugroho Sulistyo Budi as the head of BSSN.
According to reports, on Wednesday afternoon, February 18, 2025.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto will officially inaugurate Nugroho Sulistyo Budi and. Pratama Dahlian Persadha as Head of the National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) and Deputy Head of BSSN, respectively.
According to the poster that Tempo saw, Prabowo will name Nugroho and Pratama would take up the roles from. Head of BSSN Hinsa Siburian and his deputy Commissioner General of Police Rachmad Wibowo.
Ardi Sutedja, a cybersecurity specialist with the Indonesia Cyber Security Forum. Attested to the flyer’s status as an official BSSN agenda.
Ardi responded, “That is accurate (from BSSN),” when Tempo reached him on Wednesday, February 19, 2025.
Tempo made an effort to get BSSN spokesperson Ariandi Putra to confirm the inauguration of the BSSN leadership. However, there has been no response to Tempo’s confirmation mail.
Additionally, Pratama Persadha has not commented on the announcement of his inauguration this afternoon.
On Wednesday afternoon, February 19, 2025.
Prabowo will officially launch a number of agencies. Including the National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN), the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), and the Financial and Development Supervisory Agency (BPKP).
Cabinet Secretary Teddy Indra Wijaya said that a number of officials would be inaugurated this afternoon. “Several officials will be inaugurated this afternoon,” Teddy stated in a written statement on Wednesday, February 18, 2025.
In fact, when the TNI Commander was transferred in December 2024, Nugroho Sulistyo Budi was named Chief of BSSN. He took Lieutenant General (ret.) Hinsa Siburian’s seat at that time.
This previous member of the Mawar Team was transferred again because he was in retirement prior to his inauguration, which took place approximately a month ago.
The Decree of the TNI Commander Number Kep/7/I/2025, dated January 3, 2025, regarding Dismissal from and Appointment to Positions within the TNI, contains information about Nugroho’s mutation. Consequently, the Head of BSSN job is unfilled.
Pratama, meantime, serves as the Chair of the Communication and Information System Security Research Center, or CISSReC, a cybersecurity research organization.
According to its website, CISSReC is a non-profit organization that conducts research on the security of information and communication systems.
