Information technology in Indonesia

Jakarta: Indonesia must it was thought straighten out technological education, including information technology, since early to change from the agricultural nation to the based country the industry.

Wahidin Wahab, President Robot the Olympics Committee Indonesia (ROCI), said Indonesia was left five to 10 years in the technological field from our neighbouring country like Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam.

"When our neighbouring country was competing to level itself to the country that had the technological capacity that was competent like Japan, Indonesia precisely still in the beginning stage in developing this technology," he said in the seminar made Robot find it easy in implementation gaps of the exhibition of the Bazaar clouds computer in JCC Jakarta, last week.

According to him, the technological gap became one of the factors why most Indonesian communities experienced technological retardation. The command or access to technology only was obtained by a small number of people who had the fund and the adequate cost. That caused technological knowledge to be not equitable.

A Riza Wahono from Creative foundation said the lesson that was based on technology must be made pleasant and caused curiosity from the student. The studying concept must be changed in a playing manner while studying, with that the student will more be attracted by the world of technology.