Konde.co, an alternative media site that actively reports on cases of sexual violence against women was hacked last October. This incident followed the media's coverage of a rape case involving officials from the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs in Jakarta.
Konde.co experienced a denial of service attack aka DOS attack, which meant the public could not access the site. It was the second DOS attack on the non-profit news platform since it launched in 2016. It wasn't the only site targeted, two weeks earlier a digital political news site called Narasi was also hacked. Not only was there a DOS attack, but several personal accounts belonging to the Narasi journalists were hacked and monitored.
Digital news channels such as Konde.co, Project Multatuli (a news platform for investigating social and political cases managed by journalists cum social activists in Jakarta) and Narasi exist as alternative media alongside mainstream media which are powerless to provide a critical and accurate news item. They fill the 'empty space' amid the spread of clickbait journalism, an oasis during the crisis of quality journalism in Indonesia following the country's digital revolution. Scholars call it non-profit journalism, media without a profit motive which carries public interest issues.
