Accelerating E-Government Implementation in Indonesia Through Focuses-Based G2G Interaction: A Legal Perspective

摘要

As the e-Government continues to be developed and implemented in Indonesia, the current condition shows that the implementation seems to be sporadic, unfocused, and has not been well integrated between the central government and regional governments, even though the Government has developed various applications and systems in regard of this implementation. This research aims to propose an idea to accelerate the implementation of e-Government through the improvement of the central government and regional governments relationship in e-Government, which is the G2G interaction, from the legal viewpoint. This research is a normative legal research, which uses the statute and conceptual approaches. The types of data that are used in this research are primary legal materials and secondary legal materials which were obtained from literature study using keyword/legislation approach, and then reviewed using the qualitative approach that eventually produces descriptive data. The results show that existing laws and regulations allowed and encouraged the technological use in the government sector. Additionally, although the e-Government development seems well progressed through many developments of e-Government applications and systems, Indonesia's EGDI rank shows a downward trend. This paper proposes focuses-based G2G interaction to accelerate the implementation of e-Government in Indonesia. There are four focuses which are determined from the General Supervision provision in Law No. 23/2014 concerning Regional Governments by taking into account various laws and regulations, definitions of e-Government, concept of central government and regional governments relationship in a unitary state context, and the existing condition of e-Government implementation, namely the regional institutions, regional finance, regional development, and public services. It is concluded that the focuses-based G2G interaction is expected to achieve a more focused, directed, and integrated e-Government implementation so that its process can be accelerated in all the regions of Indonesia.