The government has invited hundreds of IT specialists from across the country to develop digital solutions to enable more efficient and transparent governance.
As part of an ongoing effort to realize President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s campaign promise of implementing e-governance, the Office of the Presidential Staff (KSP) is hosting the country’s first ever nationwide “hackathon” with the aim of crowdsourcing digital application concepts that will assist in the gathering of accurate data that could serve as a foundation for more effective policies.
Weiterlesen: ID: Digital solutions sought to create good governance
Public initiatives to link government and citizens through technological innovations have been rapidly mushrooming.
The last one was laporpresiden.org, founded in May 2015. It became popular since President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo encouraged Indonesians to utilize the site, together with the government’s site lapor.go.id, built under the previous presidency, to channel complaints.
With over 250 million people, Indonesia has the world’s fourth-largest population and the largest in Southeast Asia. While the government’s vision for information and communications technology (ICT) is “to bring into reality a modern information society, prosperous and highly competitive, with strong support from ICT”, the current development is still a long way off this goal.
The country does not yet have a complete database with the total number of local governments that have implemented online services.
Indonesia and Singapore have agreed to establish cooperation in the field of electronic governance, which is the implementation of government activities using technology.
The agreement was marked by the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Indonesias Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Minister Yuddy Chrisnandi and Singapores Communications and Information Minister Yacoob Ibrahim.
Weiterlesen: ID: Indonesia, Singapore sign MoU on electronic governance
An NGO has filed criminal charges against State-Owned Enterprises Minister Rini Soemarno for authorizing Indonesian communications provider Telkom to build a data center in Singapore, partly owned by a Singapore parastatal, that would host Indonesian government data.
In its report to the National Police in Jakarta late on Wednesday, the watchdog group Indonesia Club said it had no issues with the data center serving corporate clients, but that its proposed hosting of Indonesia’s e-government services violated state intelligence and electronic communications laws.