Development of Information Technology in Indonesia

Information technology is a technology that is used to process the data, including processing, obtain, compile, store, manipulate data in different ways to produce quality information, the information is relevant, accurate and timely, which is used for personal, business, and government and is a strategic information for decision making. This technology uses a computer to process the data, the network system to connect one computer to another computer as needed, and the use of telecommunications technology so that data can be distributed and accessed globally.

Roles that can be assigned by the application of this technology is to get information for personal life such as information about health, hobbies, recreation, and spiritual. Then for professions such as science, technology, trade, business news,
and professional associations.
Means of cooperation between
individuals or groups with one person or a group of others without knowing the limits of distance and time, country, race, economic class, ideology or other factors that may inhibit exchange ideas.

           
            Development of Information Technology spur a new way of life, from the beginning until the end of life, life as it is known by e-life, meaning of life has been influenced by a variety of electronic needs. And now these are lively with various letters that start with the prefix e, like e-commerce, e-government, e-education, e-library, e-journals, e-medicine, e-laboratory, e-biodiversitiy, and others again based electronics.

Whatever you call it, in the information age, physical distance or geographical distance is no longer a factor in human relations or inter-agency effort, so that the universe becomes a hamlet universe or "Global village". So often we hear the term "distance is dead" or "distance is dead" increasingly real truth.

Role of Information Technology

In our lives in the future, information technology and telecommunications sector is the most dominant sector. Anyone who mastered this technology, then he will be a leader in his world. Information technology plays a role in many areas, among others:

1. Education (e-education)

Globalization has triggered a shift in education from conventional education face toward a more open education (Mukhopadhyay M., 1995). As an example we look at the French project "Flexible Learning". This is reminiscent of Ivan Illich forecast early 70s on "Education without school (Deschooling Socieiy)" which is extreme teacher is no longer needed.

Prophecy scholars as follows:

• Bishop G. (1989) predicted that the future of education will be supple (flexible), open, and accessible to anyone who requires no view factor type, age, and previous educational experience.
• Mason R. (1994) argue that the future of education will be determined by the information network that allows interaction and collaboration, rather than building schools. However, technology will continue to widen the gap between rich and poor in.
• Tony Bates (1995) states that technology can improve the quality and range when used wisely for education and training, and has great significance for the economic well-being.
• Alisjahbana I. (1966) suggested that the approach to education and training will be "At that moment (Just on Time)". New teaching techniques will be two-way, collaborative, and inter-disciplinary.
  5. Romiszowski & Mason (1996) predicts the use of "Computer-based Multimedia Communication (CMC), which are synchronous and asynchronous.

Of the forecast and the views of scholars above it can be concluded that with the influence of globalization, the future of education will be more open and two-way, diverse, multidisciplinary, and productivity related to work "on the spot and competitive.

With the development of information technology in education, so when it is already possible to place a distance learning by using the internet to connect between students and lecturers, see the value of online students, financial checks, view class schedules, send the task assigned faculty and so on, all of it had to do. A major factor in distance learning which has been considered a problem is the lack of interaction between faculty and students. However, with the internet media is very possible to make the interaction between faculty and students in the form of real time (real time) or not. In the form of real time can be done for example in a chatroom, direct interaction with real audio or real video, and online meetings. Its not real time can be done by mailing lists, discussion groups, newsgroups, and bulletin board. With the above faculty and student interaction in the classroom may be replaced, although not 100%. Material forms, exams, quizzes and other educational means can also be implemented into the web, like material made ​​in the form of faculty presentations on the web and can be downloaded by the students. Similarly, the exams and quizzes created by faculty can also be done in the same way. Administrative settlement can also be solved directly in the registration process, let alone supported with online payment methods.

Digital Libraries; In this section, there are a variety of library information, are not limited to books but also on digital libraries such as sound, images and so on. This section is to support and shape database.

Embody the ideas and wishes of the above in the form of reality is not an easy task but if we look to other countries that have long developed a web-based distance learning, have a lot of institutions that use this method. Not only the skills possessed by engineers who needed but also a variety of policies in the field of education greatly influences its development. If the views of readiness means of support such as hardware, it seems that this is not in doubt. Only one who has always been a main concern of Internet users in Indonesia, namely the problem of bandwidth, of course, with the limited bandwidth reduces comfort especially on non-text based materials.

2. In the Government Sector (e-government)

E-government refers to the use of information technology by the 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 the government through system automation and internet networks, more commonly known as the world wide web. At the core of e-government is the use of information technology can improve the relationship between the 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).

The benefits of e-government that can be felt, among others:
Service with better service to the community. Information can be provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without having to wait for the opening of the office. Information can be sought from the office, home, without having to physically come to the administration office.

Improved relations between the government, businesses, and the general public. Openness (transparency) it is expected that the relationship between the various parties for the better. This openness eliminate mutual distrust and resentment on all sides.

Community empowerment through information easily obtained. With 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 on, can be displayed online and are used by parents to choose the right school for their children.

Implementation of a more efficient government. For example, government coordination can be done via e-mail or even video conferencing. For Indonesia, the area is very large, it is very helpful. Question and answer, coordination, discussions 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.

Public demands for good governance is urgent to be implemented by the government apparatus. One solution that is needed is integration of government administration system through a network of on-line information systems among agencies at the central and local governments to access all the data and information especially related to public service. In the government sector, the changing strategic environment and technological advancements encourage government officials to anticipate the new paradigm with efforts to improve the performance of the bureaucracy and improving services towards the realization of good governance (good govermance). The important thing to consider is the government sector is a driver and facilitator in the success of development activities, therefore the success of the development should be supported by current velocity data and information between agencies to enable the integration of the system of government and the use of other parties. Efforts to accelerate the implementation of e-Government, still have problem because currently not all menyelenggarakannya area. Moreover, there is still a perception of e-Government simply create a web site only socialization is not performing optimally. But based on Instruction, the construction of an integrated government information system will be realized until the year 2005.

3. Finance and Banking

Currently, many economic actors, especially in the big cities that no longer use cash in payment transactions, but have used modern banking services.

Modern banking services that exist only in the big cities is understandable because of the current economic growth is still concentrated in large cities only, which causes the velocity of money is also concentrated in the big cities. So that the banking sector was rather slow in its expansion into the regions. This is somewhat due to the