"This is related to the theft incident in a room of Indonesian officials at Lotte Hotel in South Korea recently," Syahfan Badri Sampurno of the House of Representatives (DPR)`s Commission I on foreign affairs, said here on Tuesday.
He said that he regretted very much the incident. There should be a good pacification for the visits of Indonesia`s important officials to Seoul, South Korea.
"I am afraid the embassies overseas have no SOP for the security of Indonesian VVIPs when they are on a visit overseas," he said.
After all, the ones who visited South Korea were the president`s envoys whose ranks were in the level of a coordinating minister, he said.
Syahfan said he had the information that there was no single embassy official assigned to maintain security in the hotel location. "Should this information correct, it is something very naive," he said.
He said that for a VVIP guest, a maximal pacification should have been provided, beginning from their hotels, trip routes and the locations they were going to visit.
Earlier reports have it that Indonesian military data had been stolen from the hotel room when Indonesian delegation was visiting to that country recently.
However, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa said that no data had been lost during the visit of the president`s special envoy to South Korea on February 15 to 17.
He made the statement at a press conference held on the sidelines of the government`s working meeting here on Monday responding to media reports about the loss of Indonesian military data at a hotel in South Korea when the country`s envoy was visiting that country recently.
"The visit was done in the framework of an economic cooperation. There was no report about a loss and a laptop that was gone containing military data. The defense ministry had also denied it and we had kept communicating with the Indonesian ambassador in South Korea," Hatta said.
Hatta who led the delegation said what had actually happened was that the head of the sub-directorate of electronics and telecommunication and information of the ministry of industry, Rojih Al Mansyur, discovered three unknown people entering Room 2061 where he stayed and took a laptop without his permit.
He said Rojih then reported the case to the hotel management which then clarified the case including checking on the CCTV records of the corridor of the floor.(*)
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