Indonesia

Hackers have been hard at work in Indonesia, defacing web sites left right and center in protest at the treatment of a local hacker who defaced the president’s web site earlier this month and could now face a 12 year jail term.

Internet café worker Wildan Yani Ashari, 22, was cuffed by police last Friday just over a fortnight after he replaced the home page of president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) with the message: “This is a PayBack From Jember Hacker Team”.

Hackers recently defaced the Web site of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the president of Indonesia.

"The website is now back to normal but those responsible have posted an image of the defacement here," notes The Register's Phil Muncaster. "The image indicates that a hacker dubbed MJL007 from a group known as the Jember Hacker Team was responsible for the incident. The only message reads: 'This is a PayBack From Jember Hacker Team.'"

Indonesia, a country that's basically an archipelago of more than  70,000 islands that has infrastructure issues in electricity and limited bandwidth, is rolling out the world's most ambitious biometrics-based national identity card project for its citizens.