The Perfect Wave
Despite the growing occurrence of cyber crimes, Indonesia's courts have yet to try an Internet credit card fraud case. Can this be attributed to narrow legislation, collusion or the incompetence of law enforcement?
June 18, 2002
Petrus Pangkur, a student from the economics faculty at Yogyakarta's Atma Jaya University, could earn the unenviable title of becoming Indonesia's first convicted Internet credit card hacker. At age 22, Yogyakarta's police have charged Petrus of committing Internet credit card fraud. Last Monday, June 10, police submitted Petrus' case to the Yogyakarta Public Prosecutor's Office.
Petrus, an internet hacker operating under the alias Interne
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