ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDONESIA

Development of Information Technology in Indonesia

The development of information technology to improve performance and enable a wide range of activities can be implemented quickly, precisely and accurately, so that ultimately will improve productivity. The development of information technology lihatkan treat the emergence of various types of activities based on this technology, such as eGovernment, e-commerce, e-education, eMedicine, e-laboratory, and others, all of which was based electronics.

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:

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 "FlexibleLearning". This is reminiscent of Ivan Illich forecast early 70s on "Education without school (Deschooling Socieiy)" which is extreme teacher is no longer needed.

Trend of education in Indonesia in the future are:

Development of open education by distance learning mode (Distance Learning). Ease to organize open and distance education should be included as a key strategy.

Resource sharing between agencies with education / training within a network

Libraries and other educational instruments (teachers, laboratories) changed into resources rather than a bookshelf.

The use of interactive information technology devices, such as CD-ROM Multimedia, in education gradually replace TV and Video.

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.

In the Government Sector (eGovernment).

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. In essence eGovernment 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:

(1) serve a better service to the community.

(2) improvement of the relationship between government, business and the general public.

(3) Empowering communities through information easily obtained.

(4) The implementation of a more efficient government.

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 current state of infrastructure in addition to the geographical aspects of Indonesia's unique and extensive.

To support the successful operations of a financial institution / bank such as banks, certainly needed a reliable information system that can be easily accessed by its clients, which in turn will depend on informasionline technology, for example, a customer can withdraw money wherever it is located as long as there ATM from the bank, or a customer can check balances and transfer money to another account in a matter of minutes, all transactions can be done.

Telematics technology and infrastructure development in Indonesia will greatly help the development of industries in the financial sector, such as expanding the scope of business by opening branches in the region, as well as the exchange of information among insurance companies, brokerage, banking, and other financial institutions.

Banking and financial institutions have been strongly influenced by the development in information technology products, even they can not operate again without the presence of information technology. This sector requires the development of information technology products in jasajasa to give them to their customers.