IT DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA
Information Technology is a technology used to process data, including processing, obtain, compile, store, manipulate data in different ways to generate quality information, information that is relevant, accurate and timely, which is used for personal purposes, education, business , and administration and is a strategic information for decision making. Roles that can be provided by the application of information technology and communications technology is to get information for your personal life such as information about health, hobbies, recreation, and spiritual. Development of information and communications technology spurred a new way of life, from beginning to end of life, this life is known as e-life, meaning life has been influenced by a variety of needs electronically. And now it is overflowing with a variety of letters that begin with the prefix e-like e-commerce, e-government, e-education, e-library, e-journal, e-medicine, e-laboratory, e-biodiversitiy, and others again based electronics.
Rector of Bandung Institute of Technology Akhmaloka said Indonesia should not be passive consumers who just follow the development of information technology (IT). In his speech at the seminar “Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Indonesia 2012” in the West Hall, ITB on Wednesday, said Indonesia also Akhmaloka must participate in determining the direction of IT development is rapidly increasing. “Do not just every month change-change ‘mobile’, but must participate to direct the development of the technology,” he said.
If Indonesia is only a passive consumer, he added, it will oscillate in the development of increasingly advanced IT and finally could not take advantage of these technological developments. “Do not just take the technology that just confused,” he said.
Meanwhile, Minister of Communications and Information Tifatul Sembiring in his speech expressed his hope that the inauguration of the seminar universities such as ITB and other universities also can develop into a research institute that produces high-tech products.
And what role student / student of IT development in Indonesia?
IT developments in Indonesia is increasingly advanced and sophisticated, but in the process of development, there are many challenges faced by IT people. With that information technology can significantly improve performance and enable a variety of activities can be performed quickly, precisely and accurately, thus increasing productivity. Information Technology or other businesses that supported the implementation of Information Technology for the present and the future still get special attention from the government, because bersifatnya strategic for the development of the nation of Indonesia. Two important aspects of business development related to the Information Technology infrastructure and Human Resources (HR). In addition to these two aspects are, in fact there are many other aspects such as education, finance and so on. However, poor infrastructure and scarcity of human resources professionals in this field is the cause of slow development and Information Technology business in Indonesia.
Various challenges faced in facilitating and further enhance the existing IT. Some of the challenges to be faced, namely;
Produce a range of information technology products, especially software, as a product of domestic industry Indonesia
Leveraging IT to solve problems Indonesia is the country’s strategic
Indonesia information technology development is strongly influenced by human resource capacity in the understanding of information technology components, such as hardware and computer software; network systems and telecommunications systems that will be used to transfer data. The need for information technology-based energy is still increasing; this can be seen with many types of jobs that require skills in information technology in various fields; also enabled the number of HR professionals with both in the field of information technology is still small, when compared with the population of Indonesia . improving the quality of human resource professional, a good infrastructure in place is a necessary condition for achieving the level of success and success in the future.
Information technology plays a role in many areas including:
Education (e-education).
Globalization has sparked a trend shift in education from a conventional face to face education toward a more open education (M. Mukhopadhyay, 1995). As an example we look at the French project “Flexible Learning ‿. This is reminiscent of Ivan Illich forecast early 70’s on “Education without schools (Deschooling Socieiy)” extreme teacher who is no longer needed.
Bishop G. (1989) predicted that the future of education will be flexible (flexible), open and accessible to anyone who needs irrespective of the type of factors, age, and previous educational experience.
Can be concluded that with the influence of globalization, the future of education will be more open and two-way, diverse, multidisciplinary, and related to the productivity of labor “was also ‿ and competitive.
The trend of education in Indonesia in the future are:
– The development of open education with distance learning mode (Distance Learning). Ease to conduct open and distance education should be included as a key strategy.
– Sharing resources among institutions with education / training in a network
– Library and other educational instruments (teachers, laboratory) changed into the source of information rather than a bookshelf.
– The use of interactive information technology devices, such as CD-ROM Multimedia in education is gradually replacing TV and Video.
With the development of information technology in education, so when it is already possible to place a distance learning using the internet media to connect between students and teachers, see the online students, financial checks, view class schedules, send the tasks assigned faculty and so on, all it has to do.
In the Government Sector (e-government).
E-government refers to the use of information technology by government, such as using the intranet and the internet, which has the ability to connect the needs of the population, business and other activities. Could be a business transaction process between the public and government through automation and networking systems, more commonly known as the world wide web. At its core e-government is the use of information technology can improve the relationship between government and other parties. use of information technology is then produced new forms of relationships such as: G2C (Governmet to Citizen), G2B (Government to Business) and G2G (Government to Government).
Benefits of e-government that can be felt include:
(1) service better service to the community. Information may be provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without waiting for the opening of the office. Information can be sought from the office, home, without having to physically come to the office of government.
(2) Improved relations between government, business, and the general public. Openness (transparency), the expected relationship between the various parties would be better. This openness eliminates the mutual suspicion and resentment from all sides.
(3) community empowerment through information that is readily available. Given sufficient information, the public will learn to be able to make their choice. For example, data about the school: the number of classes, student capacity, passing grade, and so forth, can be displayed online and used by parents to choose the right school for their children.
(4) Implementation of a more efficient government. For example, coordination of government can be done via e-mail or even video conferencing. For Indonesia, a vast area is very large, this is very helpful. Frequently asked questions, coordination, discussion between local leaders can do without all must be on the same physical location. No longer any need to fly to Jakarta for a meeting that lasted only one or two hours.
Finance and Banking
When this has been a lot of economic actors, especially in big cities that no longer use cash in payment transactions, but have taken advantage of modern banking services.
Modern banking services that exist only in big cities is understandable because the current economic growth is still concentrated in large cities only, which causes the velocity of money is also concentrated in large cities. So that the banking sector was rather slow in its expansion into the regions. This is somewhat due to the current condition of infrastructure in addition to the geographical aspects of Indonesia’s unique and extensive.
To support the operational success of a financial institution / bank as a bank, it is definitely needed a reliable information system that can be easily accessed by customers, which in turn will depend on information technology online, for example, a customer can withdraw the money wherever it is located as long as ATM of any bank service, or a customer can check balances and transfer money to another account in just minutes, all transactions can be done.
Technology and telecommunications infrastructure development in Indonesia will greatly assist the development of this industry in the financial sector, such as expanding the scope of business by opening branches in the area, as well as exchange of information among insurance companies, brokerage, banking industry, as well as other financial institutions.
Banking and financial institutions have been strongly influenced by product development in information technology, even they can not operate anymore without information technology. This sector requires the development of products in information technology to deliver their services to their customers.
Indonesia information technology development is strongly influenced by human resource capacity in the understanding of information technology components, such as hardware and computer software; network system either LAN or WAN and telecommunications systems that will be used to transfer data. The need for information technology-based energy is still increasing; this can be seen with many types of jobs that require skills in information technology in various fields; also the number of capable human resources in information technology is still small, when compared with the population of Indonesia.
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