Success Story of IT Development: Indonesia experiences

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Success Story of IT Development Indonesia
experiences
by Falatehan

• Directorate General of Posts dan
  Telecommunications,
  
• The Republic of Indonesia

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Telephone access

• Number of line in services 8.1 millions
• Cellular subscribers 6.5 millions
• Population 220 millions
• Teledensity 3
• Most line are concentrated in cities
• Alternatif telephone access
• Cellular and Fixed line subscribers including FWA
  (Fixed wireless access)
  
• Telephone cafes 200.000 points

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Internet Access

• As end of 2001
• Subscribers estimated 1 million
• Users estimated 4 millions
• Type of access
• Dial-up, Cable modem, ADSL, Satellite
• Visiting 2.000 internet cafes

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Internet users
Source APJII, ITU- 2001
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Potential Internet Users
Huge potential internet users in Indonesia

• 150.000 telephone/internet cafe
• 1600 Universities
• 4000 Specialized High
• School (SMK)
• 10.000 High School (SMU)
• 10.000 Pesantren
• Business / offices
• Total potential internet users

• 30 millions
• 3 millions
• 4 millions
• 7 millions
• 7 millions
• 10 millions
• 61 millions

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Telecom regulations
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Telecommunication sector reform

• Telecom reform has been implemented since the
  Telecommunication Law no. 36 year 1999 was
  amended and the Blue Print on Telecommunications
  Development was issued.
• Principles
• Creating fair and healthy competition in all
  telecom services
  
• Increasing private participation as
  telecommunications providers
  
• Conducting pro consumer policy
• Ensuring transparent, consistent, credible
  regulatory framework
  
• Facilitating participations from privates,
  association and telecom community in regulation
  reform.

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Telecom Investment Climate

• Indonesian policy under WTO agreement Foreign
  shares are up to 40 for telecom business.
  
• In the open market, open and conducive investment
  climate are very demanding and as guarantee for
  future investment.
  
• Therefore, telecom industry reform is on-going to
  create strong fundaments toward full
  liberalization.

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Information and Communication Technology
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ICT in Indonesia

• Through Presidential Decree No. 50/2000,
  Government has established Coordinating Team of
  ICT (Telematika).
  
• The team is to coordinate the development and the
  utilization of ICT in all sectors from government
  departments and private sectors in Indonesia
  
• Through Presidential Decree No. 6/2001,
  Government endorses Development and utilization
  of ICT in Indonesia.
  
• Implemented through Five Year Action Plans

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ICT establishment

• Encouraging internet access through
• ISP, high speed internet access, broadband
  wireless access and Satellite
  
• Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) Jakarta, Bogor,
  Bekasi, and Yogyakarta
  
• xDSL (Direct subscriber lines)
• Regulations in preparation
• IT utilization Law (Ministry of Information)
• Electronic commerce related laws such as digital
  signatures law (Ministry of Trade and Industry)
  
• Roadmap for E-government (Ministry of
  Information)

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Policies in Internet access

• Encouraging internet access through
• ISP, high speed internet access, broadband
  wireless access and Satellite
  
• Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) Jakarta, Bogor,
  Bekasi, and Yogyakarta
  
• xDSL (Direct subscriber lines)
• International bandwidth
• Bandwidth (Internet) should be affordable for
  common people
  
• Through network access point (NAP) license,
  Government is to encourage private investments to
  compete in International bandwidth provisioning
  in Indonesia

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Program in ICT regulation

• Currently, no limitation on the number of ISP.
• Preparing Information Technology Law to provide
  jurisdictions and umbrella provisioning for IT
  implementations in Indonesia. The law will covers
  all aspects on IT implementations such as
• Privacy protection
• Electronic Commerce
• Competition, Consumer protection, Taxation.
• IPR (Intellectual Property Right)

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Program in information access

• Endorse Information Access through villages.
• One million Telephone access for 971 sub district
  (kecamatan) and about 42,014 village (desa).
  
• Infrastructures for community telecenter in
  rural areas.
  
• Broadband Internet Kiosk/Café remote access
  area 10 nodes.
  
• Business Information Center 320 nodes.
• Education
• School 2000 program, accelerating internet access
  from schools.
  
• Establishing campus network in Indonesia

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Program in IT corridors

• Develop multimedia cities
• Jogja MediaNet Yogyakarta and Central Java
• Kemayoran International Business District
• Jakarta innercity /golden triangle
• Parahyangan multimedia corridor, West Java
• Bandung High-Tech valley, West Java
• Develop High-speed IP-based backbone Indonesia
  rings.
  

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Multimedia Cities
Jakarta
Bandung
Semarang
Jogjakarta
Parahyangan multimedia city

• Jakarta
• Golden Triangle
• Inner ring Road

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Program in application developments

• Tele Education
• establishing campus network in Indonesia
• developing course contents
• promoting on-line education and research in IT
• Tele Medicine
• To provide access for 7000 hospitals and health
  centers
  
• E-Government
• Applications of E-Government for 86 locations.
• Applications of E-Government in villages such as
  information-rich villages (Desa Maju), 95 units.

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Thank You
DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF POST DAN
TELECOMMUNICATIONS,
THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA
Gedung SAPTA PESONA, Jl. Medan Merdeka Barat 17
Jakarta 10110 Indonesia http//www.postel.go.
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