Using Foreign Funds, Kemenkominfo Builds Second National Data Center In Batam, Is It Safe?

The process of handing over land for the construction of the National Data Center in Batam/Photo: Antara

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information at the end of 2022, will build Indonesia's second National Data Center (PDN) in the Nongsa area of Batam City, Riau Islands Province. Minister of Communication and Information Johnny G. Plate said the National Data Center is a digital data storage warehouse with global standards Tier-IV and cloud computing technology-based. "With the construction of a national data center equipped with Tier-IV standards and based on cloud computing, it will facilitate decision-making for the Indonesian government," said Minister Johnny in an interview in Batam, Friday 24 June. In addition, the data center to be built in Batam is the second data center in Indonesia that has a fiber optic network available, which connects Batam City and West Indonesia. Meanwhile, Indonesia's first data center is in Jakarta, because currently the central government and central business is in the area. "This data center in Batam is the second owned by p government. The government's first data center was built in Jakarta, in the Deltamas Industri area, and the second was built in the Nongsa Digital Park area. The two data centers are connected and redundant, so they can provide support for each other's data services. Why was it built in Batam, because in Batam there is also a fiber optic network that connects Batam with Western Indonesia," said Minister Johnny.

Based on the instructions of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo, Minister Johnny stated that the construction of the PDN will begin at the end of 2022 and is estimated to be completed within 18 months. The National Data Center construction project to be built has a cooperation system between the Government of Indonesia and South Korea with a value of 100 million US dollars. or around Rp. 2.3 trillion. "The cooperation between e-government infrastructure between Indonesia and Korea is to build a data center (government data center). This data center is planned to be financed by the Korean government, the financing document is currently being discussed between the Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF) and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia. We hope that this can be done and completed soon so that the groundbreaking can be carried out," said Minister of Communications and Informatics Johnny.