Sebangsa, a powerful new service for citizens and government to talk with each other.
One of the largest users of social media in the world, Indonesians are taking it a step further with a new social network just for public services.
Enda Nasution and his team have built an app called Sebangsa, or Same Nation, featuring Facebook-like timelines (or Twitter-like feeds) for citizens to share about public services.
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City to partner with local delivery tracking app Go-Jek.
Jakarta’s public bus operator TransJakarta will develop a mobile app for people to track the arrival times of buses at bus stops.
The app will allow people to track the location of bus drivers and estimate when buses will arrive at the bus stops, said Steve Kosasih, CEO of TransJakarta.
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Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, will invest IDR 30 billion (US$2.4 million) on its smart city project this year, the team told FutureGov.
60 per cent of the money will be spent on building an operations centre that will help monitor and respond to complaints from citizens, said Alberto Ali, Head of Technical Unit, Smart City Jakarta. The remaining will be used for operations and human resources to run the centre, he said.
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Indonesia wants to learn from Singapore’s experience of using technology to deliver public services, the Minister for Bureaucratic Reform, Yuddy Chrisnandi, said last week after a meeting with Singaporean officials.
Singapore’s e-government systems allow it to involve citizens in decision-making and also share real-time information with citizens, businesses and government officials, Chrisnandi noted.
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Their experiment, as stated by Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt in 2013, shows that the Internet has become the largest experiment and is full of surprises.