Government innovation: The challenges and the best practice of smart city in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.32How to use a DOI?

Keywords

smart city; government innovation; bureaucracy; effectiveness; efficiency

Abstract

Nowadays, the concept of city building by putting forward the smart city is mostly discussed by the Indonesian government. The discussion and ideas are from the assessment of government on the idea capability in building smart city to solve the problems in the city such as traffic jam, safety, and garbage. The building of smart city with the use of technology and information is expected to be a solution in serving the society. It is also aimed to be a solution for the problems in the region. Literally, smart city is meant as “kota cerdas”.Smart city is designed to help the residents’ activity especially in managing the resources efficiently. It also gives the easy to access the information to the society and to anticipate the unexpected events. BAPPENAS has decided the road map of city building in Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) in 2015-2019. There has been the development of 7 metropolitan areas, 5 new metropolitan areas, 10 new public cities, 20 autonomous cities and 39 new developing centrals. In 2017, the government selected 25 cities/ regencies to develop smart city. It is also expected that the number will add in 2018. Ministry of communication and information targets 75 cities/ regencies to develop smart city through “Gerakan Menuju 100 Smart City” which means a movement for 100 smart cities. The success of smart city in Indonesia has become a big attention. Therefore, the research on smart city becomes an interesting thing. The success of smart city is related to the obstacles and the challenges. The best practice on smart city becomes the best learning for academicians and Indonesian bureaucracy. This research used descriptive-qualitative approach. The result of the research explains the obstacles and the challenges of the smart city implementation in Indonesia. The best practice of smart city is also supposed as a pilot project and reference for other areas that have not implemented smart city.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Haidar Fikri
AU  - Didik G Suharto
AU  - Rino Ardhian Nugroho
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