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Internet Evolution in Indonesia. Onno W. Purbo Onno@indo.net.id Ex. Civil Servant Ex. Lecturer at ITB Works for Indonesian People. Important Key Factor. Human Community Society NOT Technology NOT $$$. Major Achievements. Bottom-up Community based Sustainable development
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Internet Evolution in Indonesia Onno W. Purbo Onno@indo.net.id Ex. Civil Servant Ex. Lecturer at ITB Works for Indonesian People
Important Key Factor • Human • Community • Society • NOT Technology • NOT $$$
Major Achievements • Bottom-up Community based Sustainable development • No backup from World Bank, IMF, ADB, in fact, some of these institutions are piggy back on our successes ..
Overview • Historical View • Key Strategies in injecting a bottom-up community based development. • Internet community development • Commercial ISP development • Government & incumbent repressive approaches. • Technical aspects in empowering people’s power to overrule the government ..
Historical View • Focus on Social (human) Aspects
Software & PC based • 286 & e-mail only • Freeware network operating system (NOS) • Downloadable from ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/hamradio/packet/
CA*net3 AI3 Indonesia: 1997 STARTAP WIDE TransPAC AI3 S-One / SingaREN APAN vBNS AI3 Indonesia IIX
Success Factor • Community based development. • Human Resource Development • Culture! • Shifting mind set! • Self-financing. • Human is the key factor!
Key Strategies • Human factor is the most important KEY. • Provide Free Education to the Society • Copyleft & Copywrong movement • Free? How about the reward? • God provides reward in unimaginable ways.
Real Examples • http://www.bogor.net/idkf • Mailing lists • Genetika@yahoogroups.com • Majalahneotek@yahoogroups.com • Linux-admin@yahoogroups.com • Indowli@yahoogroups.com • Roadshow • Linux seminar, entrance fee US$3/person • Free seminars at schools part of JIS.
Access Behaviour • Source: Adi Nugroho adi@internux.co.id • 50% Internet Café in Makassar, Sulawesi • 20-27 January 2002.
Access Behaviour • Search engine & webmail are the the most accessed site. • News & online media are next. • Indonesian pornograhics 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.
Indonesian Internet Communities • http://www.yahoogroups.com • http://groups.yahoo.com • http://groups.plasa.com • Survey done at yahoogroups.com
Historical Perspective • ’90: Indonesians@jamus.berkeley.edu • ’96: Mailing-lists@itb.ac.id • ’99: Mailing-lists@yahoogroups.com
Evaluate yahoogroups.com • 45.000+ indonesian mailing lists • Mostly <100 subscribers • Evaluate only >100 subscribers
Commercial ISPs • APJII = Indonesian ISP Association • http://www.apjii.or.id • IndoNet • the first Indonesian commercial ISP in 1994.
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)
Indonesia Internet Exchange GLOBAL INTERNET ISP ISP APJII – IIX (GCC TELKOM)
Facing Stubborn Incumbent • The Incumbent is paranoid on VoIP • US$30/incoming call line/month; from normally US$3/month • No E1 lines for Indosat & may ISPs • No E1 lines for offices • The stubborn incumbent is stubborn • Purposely no lines for ISP in several islands.
Gov’t Emergency Task Force • Sickness in Gov’t Policy Framework • No competitive safeguard • ISP must uses PSTN lines; while Telco doesn’t want to give lines to ISP … • Sickness in Gov’t Tactical Framework • No creativities are allowed • Illegaly sweeping all “illegal” VoIP operators • Illegaly sweeping all “illegal” high-speed Internet Wireless users. • Not to mention the unofficial gov’t taxes.
Current Technology Push • Wireless Internet 11-54Mbps • Estimated cost US$150 / unit • “Unlicensed” band 2.4Ghz, 5-5.8GHz • Build own network, no Telco!