Fostering IT human resources in Asia—Indonesia: IT-base is falling behind in economic crisis

Abstract

IT-rization in Indonesia is falling behind far in economic crisis. The diffusion rates of the Internet is only 1-2%, and there is no proper IT business itself yet. The state IT synthetic plan (Nusantara21) that it is settled on in 1997 virtually is deadlocked because of the slow progress. And another basic plan (Telematika Indonesia) which takes its place in 2001 lacks concrete goal for execution and actuality. The biggest subject is the exhaustion of IT-talented people, and strongly expected that real IT talented people rearing is carried out with support of the foreign countries such as Japan.