CIDISS. Indonesia’s economic growth is believed to increase by 1% -1.5% if it maximizes the growing digital potential today.
ICT Institute Executive Director Indonesia Heru Sutadi said in 2017 the realization of economic growth in the country was at 5.1%. This figure will increase sharply if the government and society can take advantage of existing digital developments.
Heru said, internet and digital users of Indonesia is quite large. Moreover, the people of Indonesia like the new things.
The number of Indonesian citizens who did not reach 260 million as well as the use of internet increasingly rapidly assessed the basis for utilizing information technology in boosting the digital economy.
This effort is regarded as an antidote to the stigma that Indonesia is only a world market, not a global marketplace by the domestic industry. Moreover, according to him RI has a pretty good digital fundamentals with digital technology users reach 100 million more.
Meanwhile, Director General of Information Applications of the Ministry of Communications and Informatics Samuel Abrijani Pangerapan said the e-commerce market in 2016 only reached US $ 20 billion in Indonesia, while the target is US $ 120 billion.
He said, we still provide convenience [in the permit process. Hence audiences can also describe how local actors can thrive in this digital era.
In addition, the development of foreign technology in Indonesia is expected not to give fear by local actors. In fact, a competitor will make the domestic community think hard to seize the market that has been controlled abroad.
Technology must be controlled wisely to create a creative and innovative society that is not always a negative victim of the excesses of technological progress. To maximize the era of technology-based digitalization, it requires consistency and community participation to support, control and develop innovation technologies that are created to be used optimally for the prosperity, prosperity and welfare of Indonesia’s highly competitive human resources.
By: Moch. Irfandi *)