Technology in Indonesia

Technology in Indonesia is growing fastly, mostly for information and communication technology.This matter endorsed by media branding through newpaper, magazines, television stations, radio station, and internet sites. We Indonesian can buy hi-tech mobile phone produced by chinese companies. But we just consumers and users of the product not the developers. Chinese people is a success story from copy-paste generation to be a creator of ICT.

Mass media have a main role for Indonesian people that never hapen before. Facebook being a popular one for interacting among people. I get benefit from that, I can meet my old friends from intermediate school years and friends from my boardingschool,(graduated at 1994) We can do a reunion meeting at 2009, mostly because we interact with e-mail, mailing list, and facebook. The regulation about ICT still questioned, because our government still arranged an Act about it that approved by all of stakeholders.I can not +
imagine how my children will interact with ICT at the future. Now their father strugling to understand about blogging, website development, e-learning, social media networking, microblogging etcetra. Some higher education shared their lectures through internet. I can not imagine also, how our institution, UHAMKA a higher education will be at 2050. If we do not prepare to face the changes at the future, we will be left.

There are problems in Indonesian ICT development, actually in infrastructure gaps between West and East part of Indonesia. Almost all ICT provider based at Jawa island and get profit from ICT enthusiasts here. We Indonesian have PALAPA sattelite for communication through multicast interaction.