Considering Jakarta Smart City, When Technology Responds To Community Needs

JAKARTA - Lately, the term smart city is increasingly being discussed by various groups. A number of local governments are trying to direct their cities to become smart cities. For example, Jakarta, which was recently reported to be implementing the smart city concept.

Since 2014, Jakarta has been projected to become the Jakarta Smart City. To build a smart city takes a long time. A number of important elements such as infrastructure, internet network and other devices must be ready. The presence of 5G connectivity and IoT technology are the main factors in realizing this mission.

When talking about smart cities, it cannot be separated from the role of technology in responding to people's daily needs. Such as the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) which is able to connect various electronic devices with human mobility. Which this requires support from 5G technology.

Jakarta Smart City itself will use the Qlue application. This application makes it easy for its citizens to build a smart city by providing criticism, suggestions and reports regarding problems that occur around the community to be forwarded to the relevant government.

"Jakarta must be more effective and efficient by utilizing integrated information and communication technology in all public sectors," wrote the Jakarta Smart City through its website. "Jakarta needs to be a smart city."

In addition to the ambition to realize a smart city, the government also needs to provide education to its citizens who have difficulty using technology, including the elderly and people with disabilities. This means that apart from infrastructure and other elements, the public must also be ready to accept the presence of a smart city.

For smart city development, the Indonesian government refers to six main pillars with tourism priorities as quoted from the official website of Kominfo:

1. Smart environment: Preparing priority tourism areas to become areas that are clean, free of trash, and orderly, without leaving the traditional elements;

2. Smart economy: Ensuring the implementation of ICT in the transaction process (cashless) takes place in priority tourism areas and surrounding local governments;

3. Smart branding: Helping local governments in priority tourist areas in increasing tourist visits;

4. Smart government: Ensuring that local governments in priority tourism areas implement a quality Electronic Based Government System (SPBE) in an effort to provide good public services;

5. Smart society: Ensuring priority tourism destination communities and the surrounding area have superior capacity and are able to be good hosts; and

6. Smart living: Encouraging a situation of priority tourist areas that is conducive and comfortable for the community and tourists, through the provision of transportation, logistics that are peaceful, safe and friendly