• Established by the Presidential Regulation N. 53 of 2017 (amended by Presidential Regulation N. 133 of 2017), under the authority of the Kemeko Polhukam;
• Took over the equipment, financing, archives and documents of the State Encryption Agency’s, the Indonesia Security Incident Response Team on Internet Infrastructure (ID-SIRTII), and the Information Security Directorate of the Ministry of Communications and Informatics;
• Responsible for the implementation of cybersecurity in effective and efficient manner by utilizing, developing, and consolidating all elements related to cybersecurity;
• Mandated to manage national, regional, and international cooperation in cyber security affairs.

The BSSN mission is as follows:

• Ensure information security in the government sector, national critical information infrastructure, and the digital economy in realizing national security and increasing national economic growth;
• Establish and implement comprehensive cybersecurity and password governance;
• Building the independence of cybersecurity and password technology by encouraging the growth of domestic industries in the field of cybersecurity and password;
• Build, coordinate, collaborate, and operationalize systems for identification, detection, mitigation, crisis management, response and recovery against threats, incidents, and / or cyber and password attacks;
• Building a cybersecurity culture as an inherent cultural value structure by encouraging the growth of a culture of safe and comfortable internet use by every Indonesian citizen;
• Provide and optimize cybersecurity and password resources through a learning process and continuous quality improvement supported by transparent and accountable office management.