President Jokowi Launches INA Digital
President Jokowi delivers remarks during the 2024 Electronic-Based Government System (SPBE) Summit and the Launch of Govtech Indonesia at State Palace in Jakarta, Monday (05/27) (PR of Cabinet Secretariat/Oji)
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo Monday (05/27) launched the Government Technology (GovTech) INA Digital at the 2024 Electronic-Based Government System (SPBE) Summit at State Palace in Jakarta.
For the record, INA Digital is a Government’s integrated digital platform that will be operational in September 2024.
“We have to enhance our digital public infrastructure. It is like a ‘toll road’ for public service digitalization in our country. We also have to strengthen our GovTech transformation, INA Digital, an integrated platform that provides education services, health services, business permits, tax services, and so on,” he added.
According to the President, the launch of INA Digital is an initial step toward continuing to improve integrated national digital services.
“It’s just the beginning. It’s okay. The transformation must be done step by step. The most important thing is starting it. Digital state apparatus must be prepared, and the system must be disseminated, improved, and continued gradually,” President Jokowi said.
On that occasion, the Head of State emphasized that the bureaucracy should serve the people, not make things difficult.
“The benchmark should be the satisfaction of the people, the benefits received by the people, the ease of public services. But how can it be easier when ministries, agencies, and regional governments have around 27 thousand applications,” he said.
President Jokowi noticed that 27 thousand public service applications owned by the government, both at the central and regional levels, are not integrated and overlapped. Therefore, the President requested his administration to stop creating new applications that are not integrated.
“Starting this year, stop making new platforms, stop it. There are 27 thousand existing applications. When we checked the budget this year alone, Rp6.2 trillion is allocated to create new applications, build new platforms,” said the President.
Furthermore, through INA Digital, President Jokowi expressed hope that government services to the people can be simplified and integrated through a super application while calling on ministries/agencies and local governments to work together to integrate and ensure interoperability of applications and data.
“No more excuses like ‘this data is mine,’ ‘this data belongs to us,’ ‘this is my ministry’s data,’ ‘this is my agency’s data,’ ‘this is my local government’s data.’ No more excuses! We won’t progress if we continue to not breaking the silos. So once again, leave behind old practices, leave behind old mindsets,” he remarked. (DND/ABD) (AP/MMB)
