Petrus Pangkur, a 22-year-old student at Sanata Dharma University in Yogyakarta, probably never expected to face court proceedings when last year at an Internet cafe here, he ordered a helmet and glove from an American company's homepage using someone else's credit card number that he picked up from a website. It just seemed so simple, ordering things over the Internet with two credit card numbers that were not his own. All he had to do was type in the numbers and follow the verification process after selecting an item. It only began to dawn on him that maybe he had made a mistake five days later, when he was notified by the Yogyakarta office of U.S.-based courier service UPS that he had a package from the United States. After signing the administrative forms at the UPS branch office, he was arrested by police officers who were waiting for him.
"I wasn't really serious," Petrus repeatedly told the judges at the Sleman District Court last Friday, during the second hearing of his trial. It is the first time in the country that a person has been tried for this type of cyber crime. The Internet was new to him, and after about a year in Yogyakarta he began to visit Internet cafes.
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