Jakarta (VNA) – The acceleration of digitaltransformation in Indonesia can be driven through four main sectors, namelydigital infrastructure, digital government, digital economy, and digitalsociety, according to the Ministry of Communication and Informatics.

These four sectors are capable of supporting Indonesia thathas the potential to clock the biggest and fastest internet economy developmentin Southeast Asia, according to Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company's datain 2020.

Seeing this digital potential, the ministry has created the IndonesiaDigital Roadmap 2021-2024 to expedite digital transformation in accordance withthe government's directive, said the Ministry's Human Resources Research andDevelopment Head Hary Budiarto.

The ministry is trying to make digital talent in variousregions take advantage of opportunities, Budiarto remarked.

In terms of infrastructure development, the ministry hadbuilt the Palapa Ring spanning a length of 12,229 km that connects 57 districtsin Indonesia.

The ministry will launch the Indonesia Raya Satellite orSATRIA 1, with a capacity of 150 Gbps; 300-Gbps capacity SATRIA 2; and SATRIA3, with a capacity of 500 Gbps, in 2023, specifically to access fast internet(Wi-Fi) in public services.

The ministry will also install 7,904 Base TransceiverStations (BTS) in villages within the 3T (outermost, remote, andunderdeveloped) regions through the Telecommunication and InformationAccessibility Agency (BAKTI).

In the digital government sector, the ministry pushes fore-government with the Toward 100 Smart City Movement with six developmentpillars as the foundation to implement the development programme. These sixpillars comprise smart governance, smart infrastructure, smart economy, smartliving, smart people, and smart environment./.