Current Computer Networking Status

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  Hardware Sales / Market Penetration in Indonesia.
  
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  Software Sales / Market Penetration in Indonesia.
  
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  Consult Services in Indonesia.
  

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  Financial Institutions. One leading Internet Presence Provide in this area may be http://www.IndonesiaExchange.com/ especially in responds to the current trend in stock market in Indonesia.
  
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  Trade & Business Institutions. Several major players have been working on presenting Indonesian trade & business industries in Internet.
  
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  Media & Newspaper Industries. Many Newspaper & Magazine as well as TV industries in Indonesia have put their company on Internet & generate a significant of traffic.
  
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  Travel, Hotel & Tourist Industries. These industries have known to be the forefront in promoting Indonesia in global community - many have catched up with the Internet especially in Bali.
  

Local computer (hardware & software) vendors are quite abundant in Indonesia. There are several major IT consultant firms, e.g, Anderson Consulting, IBM, Hewlett Packard and DEC. When it goes into a specific Internet & TCP/IP computer networking, not that many people around in Indonesia. Most of the real TCP/IP-ers in Indonesia are located at research & educational institutions with major mailing lists:

The Indonesian telecommunication infra-structure is basically can be divided into two main categories, namely:

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  Ground / Terrestrial Segment (moving towards 2Mbps backbone).
  
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  Satellite / Space Segment.
  

In terms of Internet development we will look into both segments. Major operators in terrestrial segment are:

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  PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia (http://www.telkom.net.id or http://www.sisfotel.net.id). They have been putting B-ISDN and 2Mbps ATM Network in more than 90 cities in Indonesia involving a large number major switches on the network. It is PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia vision to become the largest Internet backbone operators in Indonesia.
  
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  PT. Aplikanusa Lintas Arta (http://www.idola.net.id or http://www.la.co.id). They are in process to put a 2Mbps Frame Relay Network to integrate 17 cities in Indonesia. They hope to increase into 31 cities in 1997.
  
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  An increasing usage of 2Mbps Wireless CDMA LAN is apparent in several major cities. It may become an alternative for building low cost 2Mbps MAN as compare to the costly ATM Network currently deployed.
  

Several companies, such as, PT. Telkomsel, PT. Komselindo, PT. Pasific Satellite Nusantara are providing GSM & AMPS services. Several efforts are currently underway towards the building of Wireless Data Network WAN - However, lack of understanding on the technology in the regulatory body tends to slow down the process.

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  PT. Elektrindo Nusantara (http://www.en.co.id), specially using TDMA VSAT (TCP/IP), DAMA & SCPC.
  
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  PT. Citra Sari Makmur (CSM), specially using TDMA VSAT.
  
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  PT. Aplikanusa Lintas Arta (http://www.lintasarta.co.id), specially using TDMA VSAT.
  
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  PT. Compact Microwave Indonesia (CMI), specially using SCPC.
  

Computer technology is not an alien to many Indonesian with many computer colleges. Unfortunately, Internet & computer networking technologies are relatively new in Indonesia. There are only two major Indonesian Universities, i.e.,

University of Indonesia (UI) (http://www.ui.ac.id/)

A significant effort in the Indonesian government computerization can be found in the education, science and technology community. The monumental effort lead by several institutions, such as,

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  Institute of Technology Bandung (http://www.itb.ac.id). especially with the establishment of 2Mbps Internet gateway for education and research as part of Asia Internet Interconnection Initiatives (AI3).
  
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  The Science and Technology Networking IPTEK-NET (http://www.iptek.net.id/) currently running at 64Kbps & will be increased to 256Kbps.
  
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  The Indonesian National Research Council (http://www.drn.go.id/).
  

Significant IT activities in many Indonesian universities is apparent. Users in Educational institutions contribute a significant portion to the Indonesian Internet users. More detailed description is described in the next section in educational & research networking activities.

Under the co-ordination of Ministry of Science and Technology (http://www.inn.bppt.go.id/), there are several government networking initiatives. Some of the major networking initiative under this ministry are:

As part of the NRC effort to support their top-down and highly competitive research programs, the NRC has been supporting the Science & Technology Network (IPTEK-NET) as the major infra-structure for disseminate research results & encourage collaboration among Indonesian researchers.

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  Scientific research and development activities in Indonesia.
  
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  World-wide international access through the Internet at speed of 64Kbps (it is planned to be increased to 256Kbps in 1996).
  
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  Library access.
  
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  Primary Name Server for *.go.id.
  

To performed its functions, several Web servers have been installed, namely,

http://www.drn.go.id/ The National Research Council Server.

The Indonesian National Aerospace Agency (also known as LAPAN), is one of the pioneer in trying to acquire the networking technology specially in satellite & packet radio networking technology (their packet radio network is known as JASIPAKTA). They have collaborating with the German National Aerospace Agency (DLR).

The Indonesian Science Institute (LIPI) is the largest government own research and development agency. LIPI in Bandung is one of the most active group in building the computer network within LIPI. Some of LIPI’s major Web servers are:

http://www.inkom.lipi.go.id/ Home Page of Control & Computer Networking Group within LIPI.

There is ten (10) government owned strategic industries & all of them will be networked. It is interesting to know that all of the strategic industries are not located in Jakarta. Only Bandung has the most dense strategic industries, namely,

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  PT INTI (inti.co.id), Indonesia's telephone digitalization pioneer, the center of excellence in telecommunication industry.
  
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  PT IPTN (iptn.go.id), (Industri Pesawat Terbang Nusantara), Indonesia's sole manufacturers of aircraft, the center of excellence in aircraft industry.
  
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  PT. LEN (len.co.id), Indonesia’s microelectronics pioneer.
  
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  PT PINDAD (pindad.go.id), the center of excellence in weapon and munitions industry.
  

A brief description of these strategic industries can be found at http://www.inn.bppt.go.id/government/bpis/bpis.html

Ministry of Industry has been developing for several years the Center Data and Information Services. Web services are also provided by the Center at:

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  PUSDATA OnLine Services (24hour BBS)
  
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  Export-Import Industry, Industry Capacity, Tax Tariff, Industry Directory etc.
  
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  Information for potential investors in Indonesia.
  
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  Company profile of various industries in Indonesia.
  
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  Export & Import status of industries in Indonesia.
  
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  Vendor, Standard, Trade Statistics, OKI, G15, APEC, ASEAN, UNCTAD, and other foreign relation information (on CD-ROM etc).
  
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  Industry Technology, Environment, Industrial R&D Centers
  
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  The Policies & Profile in Metal, Machinery & Electronics Industries.
  
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  Industrial Policies & Profile.
  

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  The Oil companies, specially to co-ordinate among Oil companies. To name a few, these companies are Pertamina, Arco, Elnusa, Caltex.
  
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  The Government Own Fertiliser Companies, specially to keep up with the demand. To name a few, these companies are PT. Pupuk Sriwidjaja, PT. Pupuk Kujang, PT. Pupuk Kalimantan Timur.
  

A major effort to integrate these networking activities into an integrated network called Industry-Trade Network (Intranet) has been pursued within the Ministry of Industry and Trade lead by PUSDATA and PT. Krakatau Information Technology (KIT).

The ministry of Environment is currently building a solid Web site specially to meet international demand on BioDiversity, EcoLabeling as well as other international environmental requirements. It is in operation with 64Kbps Internet access and is located at:

http://www.bapedal.go.id.
The earlier project within the ministry of environment is the Sustainable Development Networking Program (SDNP) in collaboration with United Nation Development Program (UNDP) and located at http://www.sdn.or.id/.
Other Departments

Several other Indonesian government ministries are looking more seriously into building their information system & networking. These ministry offices are Ministry of Forestry, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Finance & Taxation, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Mining. A coordination among these ministries in implementing their information system is being sought by the National Development & Planning Agency.