Bottom Up Indonesian Internet Infrastructure

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Bottom Up Indonesian Internet Infrastructure

• Onno W. Purbo
• Onno_at_indo.net.id
• Independent IT Writer

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Important Key Factor

• Human
• Community
• Society
• NOT Technology
• NOT

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Overview

• Commercial ISP Development
• Historical View Tech. Aspects
• Internet Community Development
• Major Achievements
• No backup from World Bank, IMF, ADB
• Bottom-up Community based Sustainable development

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Key Strategies

• Human factor is the most important KEY.
• Provide Free Education to the Society
• Copyleft Copywrong movement
• http//www.bogor.net/idkf/
• http//pandu.dhs.org/
• Free? How about the reward?
• God provides reward in unimaginable ways.

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Society Education Process
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Involving Many Volunteers ..

• Michael Sunggiardi (Bogor)
• I Made Wiryana (Germany)
• Umar Tjokroaminoto (Medan)
• Adi Nugroho (Makassar)
• Irwin Day (Makassar)
• Ismail Fahmi (Bandung)
• Etc

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Basic strategy in short ..

• Either lead or follow but please dont block the
  road for those who would move forward Phil
  Karn at Qualcomm, one of the Wireless Internet
  guru.

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Commercial Internet Development
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Commercial ISPs

• APJII Indonesian ISP Association
• http//www.apjii.or.id
• IndoNet
• the first Indonesian commercial ISP in 1994.

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APJII Membership

• 150 Principal License Holder
• 80 Member APJII
• 40 active in providing services
• 100 cities, all provinces
• Common Facilities
• APJII IIX
• APJII IDNIC
• Domain Registration NIR (APNIC)

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Principal Operational License
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Subscriber Distribution
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Targeted Total Indonesian Internet Users
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Indonesia Internet Exchange
GLOBAL INTERNET
ISP
ISP
APJII IIX (GCC TELKOM)
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Some grassroots movements

• Internet Café
• High Speed Wireless Internet (11-54Mbps)

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Indonesian Internet Cafes

• 2000 Internet Cafes
• Mostly self-finance
• Hangout at asosiasi-warnet_at_yahoogroups.com
• Fight for expanding own network concept towards
  community based network.

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Indonesian Internet Café

• Access Cost for Public Users
• Rp. 5000 / hour.
• Access Cost for Students at Schools
• Rp. 5000 / month
• Return of Investment
• 1-2 Years (no WB, no IMF, no ADB, no GoI funding)
• Internet Café is an affordable solution for
  Indonesian to access the Internet. It may enable
  20 million Indonesian to Internet in next 4-5
  years.

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Indonesian Wireless Internet

• Close to 1000 corporate users
• Uses 11Mbps (soon 54Mbps) wireless connection
• 2.4GHz (soon at 5-5.8GHz)
• Hangout indowli_at_yahoogroups.com
• Fight for free frequency license

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Historical View

• Social (human) Aspects
• Technological Aspects

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Network Topology Jan 1993
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Homebrew Radio Modem
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Software PC based

• 286 e-mail only
• Freeware network operating system (NOS)
• Downloadable from ftp//ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/pack
  et/

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AI3 Indonesia 1997
CAnet3
STARTAP
WIDE
TransPAC
AI3
S-One / SingaREN
APAN
vBNS
AI3 Indonesia
IIX
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Current Technology Push

• Wireless Internet 11-54Mbps
• Estimated cost US150 / unit
• Unlicensed band 2.4Ghz, 5-5.8GHz
• Build own network, no Telco!

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Two Way Satellite
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Success Factor

• Community based development.
• Human Resource Development
• Culture!
• Shifting mind set!
• Self-financing.
• Human is the key factor!

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Access Behavior

• Source Adi Nugroho adi_at_internux.co.id
• 50 Internet Café in Makassar, Sulawesi
• 20-27 January 2002.

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Logged Access Sites in Makassar
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Access Behavior

• Search engine webmail are the the most accessed
  site.
• News online media are next.
• Indonesian pornographic site is next in the row
  (not much).
• 2.98 users normally mistype the URL.
• Yahoo.com its family is the most (13) accessed
  site.

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Indonesian Internet Communities

• http//www.yahoogroups.com
• http//groups.yahoo.com
• http//groups.plasa.com
• Survey done at yahoogroups.com

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Historical Perspective

• 90 Indonesians_at_jamus.berkeley.edu
• 96 Mailing-lists_at_itb.ac.id
• 99 Mailing-lists_at_yahoogroups.com

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Evaluate yahoogroups.com

• 45.000 Indonesian mailing lists
• Mostly lt100 subscribers
• Evaluate only gt100 subscribers

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Evaluation
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Mailing lists
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Subscribers
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Messages in 2001
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Activeness (msg/subs/month)
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Bandwidth (Kbps)
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Summary ..

• Copyleft copywrong movement done by many
  volunteers (not the govt) really help in
  providing knowledge to the society enable them
  to build their own infrastructure.
• Wireless Internet Internet café technology is
  the key infrastructure. Most of the
  infrastructure are self-finance with no WB, IMF
  ADB involvement.
• Govt of Indonesia most of the time claim our
  sucesses ask for funding to donor agencies.