Jakarta Globe – AFP, November 4, 2013
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Indonesia
on Monday backed a UN document highlighting anger at US-led data snooping, as
Australian websites came under cyber attack in protest at Canberra’s reported
involvement in the surveillance network.
Jakarta
said it would cosponsor the draft resolution at the UN General Assembly
following reports the US and Australian missions in the Indonesian capital
collected data as part of the American-led spying efforts.
“Enough is
enough,” Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa told reporters. ”The
recent revelations will have a potentially damaging impact in terms of the
trust and confidence between countries concerned.”
He added
that Indonesia was “joining Germany and Brazil in cosponsoring a resolution in
the General Assembly of the United Nations to address precisely the kind of
issues that are now being brought up.”
On Friday,
Brazil and Germany submitted a joint draft resolution on the protection of
individual liberties to the UN General Assembly’s human rights panel, according
to Brazilian diplomats in New York.
The text
does not explicitly mention the United States. But it calls for necessary
measures to end violations of the right to privacy, including in digital
communications and to force countries to respect their obligations within the
framework of international human rights laws.
The spying
row started off between the US and its European allies but last week erupted in
Asia after the Sydney Morning Herald reported there was a network of US
intelligence facilities in the region.
The
newspaper, amplifying an earlier story by German magazine Der Spiegel, said
Australian missions were also involved in the US-led spying network.
On Sunday,
The Guardian newspaper reported Australia and the US mounted a joint
surveillance operation on Indonesia during the 2007 UN climate change
conference in Bali, citing a document from US intelligence leaker Edward
Snowden.
The
Australian government has said it does not comment on intelligence matters.
The row has
strained relations between Canberra and Indonesia, its northern neighbour and
strategic ally, with Jakarta last week summoning the top American and
Australian diplomats in the country over the reports.
As well as
official anger, cyber activists vented their fury Monday with the group
Anonymous Indonesia claiming to have defaced more than 170 Australian websites
in protest at reports of Canberra’s alleged spying activities.
“Hundreds
of Australian Websites Attacked for #OpAustralia By Indonesian Hackers,” it
posted on Twitter, listing the sites which appeared to be mostly small
businesses that ended with the Australian domain “.au.”
The hacked
websites were emblazoned with the message: “Stop Spying on Indonesia,”
underneath an Indonesian flag imprinted with a black graphic of the face of Guy
Fawkes, whose image is used on masked by the Anonymous collective.
Anonymous
is usually understood as a loosely organized hacker collective that conducts
online attacks internationally, most recently in Singapore on Friday when a
newspaper website was defaced over Internet freedom in the city-state.
Agence
France-Presse
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