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Indonesia
Title: E-learning in community access points (CAP) in assisting
the learning process for students in rural area
Proposer: Mr. Mohammad Rudy Salahuddin, Head, Sub-Directorate
for Posts and ICT, National Development Planning Agency
Country: Indonesia
Date: March 2005
I. INTRODUCTION
The low level of ICT penetration in rural areas around Indonesia
(0.2 per cent) is seen as the main obstacle to the development of the
Information Society. Initiatives based on the collaboration of the government,
private sector, civil society and civil society groups have included
numerous efforts to increase the above penetration level. Efforts have been
arranged in both ways, creating the demand, i.e. creating an increased
level of awareness through socialization activities, as well as, to some
extent, creating the supply, i.e. providing some level of infrastructure
availability – or at least creating pilot activities in making technology
available.
The World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) has set the target
date of 2015 for half of the world’s population to have access to the
Internet. Indonesia through the commitments made in December 2003 has
taken this commitment and is now conducting a number of initiatives to
ensure that those targets are reached. WSIS recognizes Community Access
Points (CAPs) as one of the solutions in providing access to the community.
In this project, 200 CAP locations situated around schools will be
selected. Collaborations will be made with teachers and lecturers to give
assignments in traditional courses to students that ‘forces’ them to use the
e-learning facilities in the CAP location. Collaborations will also be made
with the CAP sites so that certain e-learning tools can be installed and the
people managing the CAP sites can provide some assistance to students
who use the facility.
Students or learners which are identified include: junior and senior
high schools students for curriculum-based units, junior and senior high
school students for non-curriculum based activities, community decision
makers, and rural development professionals.
CAPs have been implemented in the past. However, implementing
CAP in a controlled situation where conducive conditions are created to
support effective e-learning programme in rural areas in Indonesia has not