2025 and so on. This existing regulation explicitly
mentions the importance of using ICT. There is no
justification for local governments with high
numbers of ICT users not to optimize the use of
ICTs at the District / Township level until the
Village.
When viewing Law number 6, 2014 about the
Village. This law was born because of the many
demands in the village independence instead
mandated to utilize ICT in catching up behind the
village and the city. The potential of many villages
has not been well-explored and well-publicized.
Service to the community is still very conventional.
If the potential of the village with all its local
wisdom can be read in other space, it is not
impossible that the global village can be realized.
Also when the service to the public with the
apparatus transform from conventional to digital, it
is not impossible that good governance will be
achieved at the village level. One way to publicize
and inform the potential is by utilizing the Village
Information System (VIS).
Many benefits can be taken if ICT (VIS as a
form of it) can be utilized optimally. Based on the
report from OECD (The Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development) in Darmawan
(2011) there are several benefits of E-Gov when
used optimally: improving efficiency in various data
or information ranging from collecting, , Providing
information and communication both within and
between governments (Gil-García, 2007).
The second benefit is improving service to the
community, why? Because society does not need to
know the structure and complex relationships behind
the services provided by the government.
Bureaucratic hierarchical structures that seem
complicated and long services cut by the existence
of this ICT. A third benefit can help socialize
government policies including ongoing activities to
the community so that stakeholders can share ideas
and information regarding a policy. Potential
villages that have been buried will also be built
through the utilization of ICT (Jahja, 2012). Other
benefits can reduce corruption, increase openness
and trust in government. The government can also
make savings through the process of administration
and supply of ICT-based information. Equally
important benefits are increasing trust between the
government and its people, improving good
governance through increased transparency, and the
effect will reduce corruption. Similarly, if the
aspirations and opinions of the community can be
facilitated or accommodated in ICT-based media
used by the government, then community
participation in building the village will be built. The
impact woke the sense of belonging to the village.
Villages belong together and do not belong to a
handful of village rulers. When togetherness and
participation of villagers to their village are built,
village empowerment becomes more dignified and
poverty will be slowly reduced.
The use of VIS was started by the village of
Karangrejo after Kelud disaster arrived. The Village
Government considers the need for the application
of ICT as one of the media to anticipate when the
disaster comes again which is worried about citizen
loss of property, objects, data and also soul. ICT
answers the problem of community data whenever a
disaster occurs so as to minimize undesirable things
such as loss of Identity Card, Birth Certificate, even
Certificate of Land. This is shared by Supadi 64
years old villager Karangrejo said:
“The timing of last year's disaster was
frightening, let alone it was not the first time. The
most powerful was in the 90s. Dark really fitting that
time. Fear reappeared fitting in 2014. Fear of losing
all as well as loss of important data mas. Deed of
land, diploma, let alone to lose family life "
(Waktu kejadian bencana tahun lalu rasanya
takut mas, apalagi ini bukan kali yang pertama.
Yang terdahsyat dulu waktu tahun 90-an mas. Gelap
banget pas waktu itu. Ketakutan muncul lagi pas
tahun 2014 mas. Ketakutan kehilangan semua
termasuk juga kehilangan data-data penting mas.
Akta tanah, ijazah, apalagi naudzubillah sampai
kehilangan nyawa keluarga mas)
At the end, the desire of Karangrejo village to
have new media devices through ICT is supported
by UNDP (United Nations Development Program)
in 2015. From 220 villages spread in Blitar district,
two villages are selected by UNDP, Modangan
village and Karangrejo village to run new media
Known as Village Information System (hereinafter
abbreviated as VIS). This system is considered
effective in order to save the data as well as a
storefront and village information boards in
cyberspace. The consequence of UNDP's assistance
is that villagers voluntarily submit demographic and
other data for the purposes of this VIS. For more
than two months the village tools together populate
the VIS offline to be activated online. The majority
of the residents welcomed the presence of this
assistance at the same time as they voluntarily
submitted their data to the village as Nurul said as
the village of Karangrejo:
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