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Bottom Up Indonesian Internet Infrastructure

Bottom Up Indonesian Internet Infrastructure. Onno W. Purbo Onno@indo.net.id Independent IT Writer. Important Key Factor. Human Community Society NOT Technology NOT $$$. Overview. Commercial ISP Development Historical View & Tech. Aspects Internet Community Development

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Bottom Up Indonesian Internet Infrastructure

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  1. Bottom Up Indonesian Internet Infrastructure Onno W. Purbo Onno@indo.net.id Independent IT Writer

  2. Important Key Factor • Human • Community • Society • NOT Technology • NOT $$$

  3. Overview • Commercial ISP Development • Historical View & Tech. Aspects • Internet Community Development • Major Achievements • No backup from World Bank, IMF, ADB • Bottom-up Community based Sustainable development

  4. Key Strategies • Human factor is the most important KEY. • Provide Free Education to the Society • Copyleft & Copywrong movement • http://www.bogor.net/idkf/ • http://pandu.dhs.org/ • Free? How about the reward? • God provides reward in unimaginable ways.

  5. Society Education Process

  6. Involving Many Volunteers .. • Michael Sunggiardi (Bogor) • I Made Wiryana (Germany) • Umar Tjokroaminoto (Medan) • Adi Nugroho (Makassar) • Irwin Day (Makassar) • Ismail Fahmi (Bandung) • Etc …

  7. Basic strategy in short .. • “Either lead or follow but please don’t block the road for those who would move forward …” Phil Karn at Qualcomm, one of the Wireless Internet guru.

  8. Commercial Internet Development

  9. Commercial ISPs • APJII = Indonesian ISP Association • http://www.apjii.or.id • IndoNet • the first Indonesian commercial ISP in 1994.

  10. APJII Membership • 150+ Principal License Holder • 80 Member APJII • 40+ active in providing services • 100+ cities, all provinces • Common Facilities • APJII IIX • APJII IDNIC • Domain Registration & NIR (APNIC)

  11. Principal & Operational License

  12. Subscriber Distribution

  13. Targeted Total Indonesian Internet Users

  14. Indonesia Internet Exchange GLOBAL INTERNET ISP ISP APJII – IIX (GCC TELKOM)

  15. Some grassroots movements • Internet Café • High Speed Wireless Internet (11-54Mbps)

  16. Indonesian Internet Cafes • 2000+ Internet Cafes • Mostly self-finance • Hangout at asosiasi-warnet@yahoogroups.com • Fight for expanding own network & concept towards community based network.

  17. Indonesian Internet Café • Access Cost for Public Users • Rp. 5000 / hour. • Access Cost for Students at Schools • Rp. 5000 / month • Return of Investment • 1-2 Years (no WB, no IMF, no ADB, no GoI funding) • Internet Café is an affordable solution for Indonesian to access the Internet. It may enable 20+ million Indonesian to Internet in next 4-5 years.

  18. Indonesian Wireless Internet • Close to 1000 corporate users • Uses 11Mbps (soon 54Mbps) wireless connection • 2.4GHz (soon at 5-5.8GHz) • Hangout indowli@yahoogroups.com • Fight for free frequency license

  19. Historical View • Social (human) Aspects • Technological Aspects

  20. Network Topology: Jan 1993

  21. Homebrew Radio Modem

  22. Software & PC based • 286 & e-mail only • Freeware network operating system (NOS) • Downloadable from ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/

  23. CA*net3 AI3 Indonesia: 1997 STARTAP WIDE TransPAC AI3 S-One / SingaREN APAN vBNS AI3 Indonesia IIX

  24. Current Technology Push • Wireless Internet 11-54Mbps • Estimated cost US$150 / unit • “Unlicensed” band 2.4Ghz, 5-5.8GHz • Build own network, no Telco!

  25. Two Way Satellite

  26. Success Factor • Community based development. • Human Resource Development • Culture! • Shifting mind set! • Self-financing. • Human is the key factor!

  27. Access Behavior • Source: Adi Nugroho adi@internux.co.id • 50% Internet Café in Makassar, Sulawesi • 20-27 January 2002.

  28. Logged Access Sites in Makassar

  29. Access Behavior • Search engine & webmail are the the most accessed site. • News & online media are next. • Indonesian pornographic site is next in the row (not much). • 2.98% users normally mistype the URL. • Yahoo.com & its family is the most (13%) accessed site.

  30. Indonesian Internet Communities • http://www.yahoogroups.com • http://groups.yahoo.com • http://groups.plasa.com • Survey done at yahoogroups.com

  31. Historical Perspective • ’90: Indonesians@jamus.berkeley.edu • ’96: Mailing-lists@itb.ac.id • ’99: Mailing-lists@yahoogroups.com

  32. Evaluate yahoogroups.com • 45.000+ Indonesian mailing lists • Mostly <100 subscribers • Evaluate only >100 subscribers

  33. Evaluation

  34. Mailing lists

  35. Subscribers

  36. Messages in 2001

  37. Activeness (msg/subs/month)

  38. Bandwidth (Kbps)

  39. Summary .. • Copyleft & copywrong movementdone by many volunteers (not the gov’t) really help in providing knowledge to the society & enable them to build their own infrastructure. • Wireless Internet & Internet café technologyis the key infrastructure. Most of the infrastructure are self-finance with no WB, IMF & ADB involvement. • Gov’t of Indonesiamost of the time claim our sucesses & ask for funding to donor agencies.

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