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Respon artikel menarik dari teman saya, Didin:

http://netsains.com/2008/09/menelaah-pornografi-dalam-budaya-indonesia-dan-asing/

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Peluncuran buku "Tionghoa dalam cengkeraman SBKRI"

http://tv.kompas.com/content/view/5929/2/

Disini saya bertindak sebagai moderator dadakan. Saya tidak tahu siapa dikiri saya dan dikanan saya. Tapi yang jelas: bodo amat. Saya lebih tertarik dengan pendapat peserta dan saya memang sengaja tidak memperkenalkan para panelist karena waktu tidak banyak. Capek kalo dengerin ungkapan Harry Tjan Silalahi terus. Dulu beliau adalah kepala PMKRI, nyerbu Res Publica, dan membantu menetapkan politik asimilasi total Indonesia. Setelah 40 tahun mempora-porandakan Indonesia, beliau sebenarnya berhutang permintaan maaf kepada rakyat Indonesia dan juga Timor Timur. Dulu beliau mungkir Cina, dan sekarang sepertinya kembali Cina. Apakah orang seperti ini sebenarnya mempunyai idealisme?

Mungkin setelah saya membuat pernyataan ini, saya akan dibunuh seperti mereka yang dituduh PKI?

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Peluncuran buku "Tionghoa dalam cengkeraman SBKRI"

When: Pk. 16.00 - 18.30 WIB Where: CSIS Building, Jl Tanah Abang III/23-27, Jakarta 10160 Mengapa surat bukti kewarganegaraan Republik Indonesia masih saja menjadi masalah? Bagaimana solusinya? Bagaimana etnis Tionghoa mengantisipasi dan menghadapinya? Penerbit Visimedia Pustaka bersama Perhimpunan Indonesia Tionghoa (INTI), Forum Komunikasi Kesatuan Bangsa (FKKB), Institut Kewarganegaraan Indonesia (IKI), dan Gerakan Perjuangan Anti Diskriminasi (GANDI) meluncurkan buku "Tionghoa dalam cengkraman SBKRI" yang akan mengupas permasalahan SBKRI secara komprehensif. Sambutan Harry Tjan Silalahi, SH Pengantar Prof. Dr. Juwono Sudarsono Prakata Penulis: Wahyu Effendi dan Prasetyadji Pembahasan Trias Kuncahyono (Wakil Pemimpin Redaksi Kompas) Indradi Kusuma, SH (Sekretaris IKI) RSVP: Ibu Christin (021) 5673869, 71204430

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Mengenang Letkol TNI AL Ir. Paulus Tanuhandaru MSc. MSc., ayah saya yang meninggal dalam tugasnya, 14 tahun yang lalu.

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I have just participated in IWRM, an international workshop held at Kuala Lumpur, from 21st to 25th May 2008. Thanks to Pak Onno Purbo and Ibu Nurlina Purbo and IDRC's Jacquiline Loh for giving me such an opportunity!

For further information on the workshop and its organizer, please look into

http://www.resource-alliance.org/iwrm/

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TRAMP, the vanguard of the nation, saving young generations

A flock of outdoorsmen participating in an outbound organized by the military found themselves turning into a better, if not different person: disciplined, tougher, and committed in whatever they do. And those willing to become so better follow suit, as chances are always open, provided that they can endure the training, a tough one. Continue reading...

Proposal Open Source yang dicuri oleh orang lain

Ini sekedar untuk pelurusan opini publik, atas nama demokrasi Indonesia.

Proposal ini dicuri oleh seorang aktivis lingkungan, yang namanya tidak perlu saya sebut, karena terlalu menjijikan manusia tersebut. Memang proposal ini ditujukan untuk mengembangkan open source, tapi bukan berarti proposal ini di-open-source-kan tanpa mengutip secara benar dari penulis. Continue reading...

Puff anywhere possible

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Pertamina: The Wishbone of the Country?

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Pertamina problems not just technical, clearly ethical

(Jakarta Post, September 12, 2005) While not knowing when oil prices will ever come back to earth, having Indonesia as a net oil-importer country, notwithstanding its 43-year OPEC membership, demonstrates that the condition of the national oil industry is much worse than what it had been many years ago. Continue reading...

From Combination of Wireless Technology, Fiber Optics, and SMS to Ensuring Transparency and Accountability

Almost three months after the Tsunami wiped out most of the coastal regions in Aceh, the devastated regions are still left with nothing but rubbles and debris. And not only they have become a place where thousands of people are dead and massively buried, but the internally-displaced-persons (IDP) are now at the verge of being endangered by starvation and exposed to the harsh condition of post-mortems disaster. Continue reading...

Q&A: Irwandi Jusuf: 'Why I will win the election'

A national polling institution has performed a quick count on Aceh’s Dec. 11 gubernatorial election, declaring one of the candidates a likely winner of the election, even though the official result of election is only due to be released in early January 2007. Continue reading...

‘Aceh voting problems unacceptable’

(December 11, 2006) A former Free Aceh Movement rebel had labeled the central government as incompetent in its handling of today’s historic gubernatorial election in Aceh with an estimated 10 percent of the voting public being deprived of the right to vote. Continue reading...

Q&A: Glyn Ford: ‘We care about nothing but a peaceful election in Aceh’

Today is the day of Aceh’s gubernatorial election, a historic event in which more than 2,600,000 Acehnese are expected to cast their ballots, yet one that would not have been possible had Aceh not been struck by the tsunami and then undergone a peace process. Continue reading...

Chinese Indonesians can help return capital

No longer deprived politically, Indonesian of Chinese descent are more likely to be willing to use their family and friendship connections to encourage Chinese Indonesian debtors residing in Singapore to return their misappropriated funds to Indonesia, says Rocky Gerung, a scholar who teaches philosophy at the University of Indonesia. Continue reading...

Polluted canal threatens men, animals

Filled by large amounts of trash dumped irresponsibly, the flat canal in West Jakarta joined by two rivers, the Angke and the Ciliwung, has become toxic, threatening the livelihoods of people living along the embankments and of animals in the Muara Angke Wildlife preservation area. Continue reading...

A debt criminal

Having paid off our debt to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), we wonder whether the World Bank will be the next financial institution to whom we have to pay our debt. Although doing so is still long way off, negotiations to reduce the debt before repaying the loan, proposed by the International NGO, Forum for Indonesian Development (INFID), sound reasonable, when we recall that international debt has been proven much more destructive than effective in helping the poor. Continue reading...

Indonesian Muslims to use Al Quran to combat corruption

Unsure of how the Islamic Holy book Al Qur'an could be used to deter corruption, the Indonesian Muslim Society is yet to interpret its archaic verses on punishment commensurate with modern corruption, says Moeslim Abdurrahman, a moslem scholar and activist presenting his oration at a seminar held Tuesday. Continue reading...

Military reform has ceased, say analysts

Launching the first edition of a newspaper specifically divulging information related to the Indonesian military, activists representing their respective NGOs who have grouped into a consortium managing the publication, said the military has stopped reforming, at a press conference held Wednesday. Continue reading...
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TRAMP, the vanguard of the nation, saving young generations

By Protus Tanuhandaru

A flock of outdoorsmen participating in an outbound organized by the military found themselves turning into a better, if not different person: disciplined, tougher, and committed in whatever they do. And those willing to become so better follow suit, as chances are always open, provided that they can endure the training, a tough one.

“Now I’m a new man, thanks to the training, however tough it had been,” said 20-year-old Asep Sumantri, one of the 43 cadets of Top Ranger and Mountain Pathfinder (TRAMP) two-week training.

These cadets had their training conducted at Rindam Jaya – at Condet, East Jakarta and Bunder Mountain, West Jawa – both a recruit depot replete with military training facilities ranging from a variety of obstacles and shooting range.

During the training, TRAMP’s cadets were treated as if they’re military’s – served the sort of civilian-will-not-eat food the military cadets consume and given an arduous physical training (PT) the military receive and treated as well as punished indiscriminately.

Living in Rindam’s barrack, the cadets had to put things in the order the military should: clothes folded neatly and stacked from the darkest color to the lightest, boots, PT shoes and sandals placed under the locker, bunks made whenever not used, carrier placed under the bunks. The floor and toilet, whenever the cadets left the barrack, must remain clean.

And cadets had to appear as impeccable as the barrack does – all had their heads shaved (except female), helmet made of ebonite strapped to their neck, uniform tucked in, boots polished, name tag worn, and a red ribbon attached to their left shoulder.

Physical training was conducted at least once a day, followed by lectures given in the class, with such material as Pancasila, statesmanship, wilderness survival, dealing with disasters, leadership, knotting, organization, national defense, mountaineering, pioneering, environmental awareness, medical knowledge, and Search and Rescue (SAR).

But PT was not only conducted at dawn or when they’re scheduled. Often cadets had to run, while rehearsing the songs they ought to know, from their barrack to the classroom located afar and vice versa.

“There is no ideal condition. When there’s a tsunami, you would still run, notwithstanding how tired you are,” said Sergeant Waldi from Rindam Jaya, one of the drilling instructors responsible for the cadets.

At evening, when activities were over, all but those assigned with drawing fire watch had to go asleep. A pair of cadets had to stay awake for an hour before they were relieved by another pair, until all cadets woke up at dawn for their PT.

At any given night at any hour, there could be a reveille – with emergency siren howling the barrack, eye-hurting lights and instructors banging both the doors and bunk beds, to wake up the cadets.

Waking in panic, the cadets jumped out of their bunks, hustled for and snatched their gears and attributes, yet found themselves, when assembled in formation in front of the barrack, missing an attribute or two or even wearing the wrong uniform.

Wary of another reveille, students often opted to sleep with their uniform and attributes on, no matter how wet or dirty they were.

Any mistake led to consequences – and when it did, some no longer able to bear the pain opted to quit.

The first reveille caught many cadets concealing foods and cigarettes – the sort of contraband not allowed in the barrack. These contrabands were not however immediately disposed of but were tied in with a plastic rope, which then hung as attribute at the neck of those found having the contrabands and only to be released when the training was over.

“Keeping this at your neck will remind you of your mistake,” told Teppy Irianto, head of the program, to the cadets.

Such revelation led to collective punishment – push-up, rolling on the asphalts and even hard-slapping – of cadets accountable for bringing these contrabands and who have been warned of the consequence of bringing to the barracks things the cadets were not supposed to have.

Those who were slapped claimed what TRAMP did was beyond their expectation and considered it as human rights violation. Said 43-year-old Marthen Josh Mustika, one of the slapped cadets: “Never have we thought that we enlisted ourselves for such a brutal training.”

Marthen, along with seven others also irked by such a conduct, voluntarily discharged themselves from the training – a conduct Teppy dismissed as nothing extraordinary.

“TRAMP already clearly stated what cadets could bring and what they couldn’t. Those who complained only prove that they’re mentally weak – unsuitable for the training.”

Agreeing with Teppy was Batubara, a presidential security service who was also an instructor of the program, who said “Whoever you are outside the training facility, here you’re no more than a cadet. We don’t discriminate people.”

Of 55 cadets initially participating in the program, only 43 made it at the end.

Those who remained in the program continued their training at Bunder Mountain, west Java. There, cadets were taught how to make a bivouac made of either ponchos or leaves, about wilderness survival and navigating using a compass, during the day and night.

Having completed their training there, the cadets moved to Lido Lakes, also in West Java – marching the 75-km mountainous roads within two days with their feet ending up blistered, calloused, and even wounded.

At Lido, cadets were taught how to operate a landing craft boat and to cross the vast lake using a rope stretched from one end to another.

At the end of the training days, four cadets were about to be dismissed from the program and sent home because they were considered not able to follow rules enforced by TRAMP. The rest of cadets, showing their sympathy, were not willing to earn any award for accomplishing the training, unless the four also receive the award the rest would.

Such was esprit de corps TRAMP has been instilling in its cadets for many generations. Such also impressed both seniors and instructors, so compelling that all but one cadet were nonetheless bestowed the accolade as new TRAMP member.

The one who did not pass the acid test, 24-year-old Ricky Hendarto, ran away moments before all students carried out their long march, because “Ricky missed his mama,” said 34-year-old Kusmadi, a cadet who happened to talk to Ricky the night before he left.

Seniors and instructors, informed of such an escape, quickly traced where Ricky went. Days later, Ricky was found having arrived at his home safely, according to Selamet, a member of the military elite commandos Kopassus dispatched by TRAMP to find where Ricky was.

Asked of the incident, Teppy said “He is a section 8, mentally deranged. Not only will he not get the award, but also he has to be held accountable for what he did, simply because he has to learn that every option has its implications. Ricky’s renders a bad one.”

Students who successfully completed the training received a certificate endorsed by the Regional Military Commander, could further hone whatever skills they’re interested in, and obtain their Initial Registration Number (NRP) – a number allowing them full membership of TRAMP, thereby enabling them to have a say in TRAMP council and to conduct any activities, business and social, under the umbrella and support of TRAMP.

To get the NRP, however, cadets who already passed the basic training have to carry out a mission conducting a research related to sociology and anthropology – particularly studying any ethnics of their choice – and will be provided with a guide book, necessary equipment and funds to do so.

“These new TRAMP members are now unflappable, capable of working consistently albeit under severe condition, something important when you’re working in context of disaster relief,” said Nawir Harahap, one of the seniors who is also managing TRAMP.

When the 2004 tsunami devastated Aceh, TRAMP dispatched eight of its members with each carrying only Rp50.000,- to assist with disaster relief. Working with the community they helped, they were able to sustain themselves, compromising the worst condition – something most volunteers, particularly those without proper training, can never do.

“You can’t just send volunteers from the city to such harsh area as Aceh. Unprepared, volunteers often troubled more than they helped, said Yongky Rochmadi, one of the eight sent to Aceh.

Even the military working in Aceh acknowledged how credible TRAMP members had been.

Afterwards, TRAMP has had its members dispatched to help the disaster relief in Yogyakarta, Bandung and Pangandaran.

But TRAMP members are not only savvy in dealing with disaster, said Nawir. Many have also become successful in a variety of careers whether in the military, government or business sectors.

TRAMP’s activity, compared to other outbound, is cost-effective, with only 2 million rupiahs spent on each cadet, in addition to the free-of-charge service provided by the Regional Military Command (KODAM) and Kopassus, the sort of elaborate affiliation any other outbound or organization hardly ever has.

None of the cadets were however required to pay for their training, as TRAMP members and sympathizers collectively funded the activities.

Established in 1970, TRAMP was formed as a group composed of youth and students – all having similar interest in outdoor activities.

Years later, TRAMP had the support of KODAM, with its training conducted at Rindam Jaya.

In 1989, however, TRAMP had stopped its training and activities for ten consecutive years because most of its members had to concentrate on their career and errands. With members rallying in 1999, TRAMP has resumed its training and activities, how having its headquarters established in Jakarta.

To date TRAMP has more than 900 members.

Now TRAMP is looking forward to intensifying its activities – attempting to hold the training at least once or twice the year, a move however requiring substantial, continuous amount of funding and deeper commitment.

For such a purpose, TRAMP will be looking for professionals in managing TRAMP – preferably well-remunerated “so they will be deeply dedicated in and could stay focus on TRAMP, unlike me who is just a volunteer,” said Trijoni Susanto, one of the instructors who tried his best to help TRAMP while simultaneously keeping up with his daily work as a geologist.

Companies willing to send their employees to TRAMP are also welcome, emulating successful entrepreneurs such as Osbert Lyman and Josephine Komara – both recently sent their employees to be trained in TRAMP and provided TRAMP with large amount of donation.

Asked whether TRAMP will be able to extend its activities, Teppy nodded and said the very slogan of the organization: “It’s because of who we are: TRAMP, TRAMP, TRAMP… victor!”

Proposal Open Source yang dicuri oleh orang lain

Ini sekedar untuk pelurusan opini publik, atas nama demokrasi Indonesia.

Proposal ini dicuri oleh seorang aktivis lingkungan, yang namanya tidak perlu saya sebut, karena terlalu menjijikan manusia tersebut. Memang proposal ini ditujukan untuk mengembangkan open source, tapi bukan berarti proposal ini di-open-source-kan tanpa mengutip secara benar dari penulis.

DRAFT (Not to be quoted unless permitted)

Pilot Project of Platform to Develop National Open-Source Software (OSS) Help Desk
Presented by Protus Tanuhandaru
Airputih Foundation

BACKGROUND

Lacking access to software realistically affordable, Indonesia is confronting software piracy , due to Indonesia’s dependency on proprietary software produced overseas, the sort not affordable by Indonesians whose per capita income is much smaller than the price of software produced with costs associated with living standard in developed countries.

To avert Indonesia’s dependency on such software, the Government of Indonesia (GoI) – having learned from many countries successful in implementing Open-Source Software (OSS) – launched its own program called Indonesia Goes Open Source! (IGOS) – a program initiated in 2001 by five ministers that aims at providing the public with cost-effective OSS, adjusted to how much price the public could really afford for their software needs.

To date, IGOS has resulted in a variety of OSS products customized to local needs such as WaroengIGOS, IGOS laba-laba and DesktopIGOS and IGOS Nusantara. But even though the program has been running for more than a year, it is still facing issues hampering its full implementation. These are:

• Lack of understanding by the public on intellectual property rights – particularly on rights of software belonged to anybody who created them;
• Lack of public’s awareness of IGOS because campaign to encourage the public to turn to OSS has neither been well-coordinated nor systematic;
• Lack of preparation in developing migration guidelines to direct users to switch to OSS
• Lack of preparation in developing OSS guidelines;
• Desk Support to provide technical assistance sustaining the effect of the IGOS is not yet available;

Aiming to resolve these issues, the ministry of research and technology called on OS community members to be involved in the development of IGOS . Responding to such a call, Airputih, an ICT NGO that is also a member of such a community, proposes a project called Pilot Project of Platform to Develop National Open-Source Software (OSS) Help Desk, a one-year program aiming at having the public sector’s computer terminals migrated to OSS, supported by Help Desk – which is an integrated technical assistance facility to address and resolve issues emerging after the migration to OSS.

In implementing such a pilot project, Airputih will be collaborating with many entities supporting the development of OSS – the ministry of research and technology, open-source community represented by Indonesia Linux Foundation (YPLI), and University of Gunadarma – with the following objectives:

1. Performing an assessment of the contemporary condition of IGOS implementation at the public sector in Aceh and Yogyakarta – two cities considered by the ministry of research and technology as a reliable sample representing many other cities across Indonesia with similar economic activities;
2. Developing OSS platform that is accustomed to users’ needs, based on the assessment result.
The final result of this project will determine the viability of Help-Desk development, which is the continuation of this project.

GOAL OF THE PROJECT

The long-term goal of this project is to avert Indonesia’s dependency on expensive, proprietary software through mainstreaming the use of OSS across Indonesia as well as increasing public participation in the development of OSS. Specifically expected from this project is the government sector(s) in the pilot project area turning their use of software from proprietary-typed software to OSS.

OBJECTIVE(s) OF THE PROJECT

The objective of this project is to implement OSS in Aceh and Yogyakarta, two provinces designed as pilot to further the implementation of IGOS – by assessing the contemporary condition of OSS at the public sector in the two provinces and by developing OSS platform accustomed to the users’ needs.

EXPECTED RESULT(s)

• The cost of buying proprietary software is cut down dramatically – resulting in saving of large portions of the state’s budget otherwise spent to procure such software;
• Government’s use of OSS creates market demand of such software, thereby stimulating domestic economy through the burgeoning of local software business engagements and opening employment opportunity;
• Software piracy rate is gradually reduced to a level where a number of government users who used to buy pirated software now turn to OSS.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR(s)

• Number of government users’ computer migrated to OSS;
• Number of government users trained to use OSS solution;
• Open-source operating system and applications built;
• Series of publications through a variety of media, both printed and online, on the project and its progress and result;
• Guidelines to carry out migration and to use OSS and training modules produced and disseminated;
• Network of local business-oriented stakeholders established to sustain project activities.

TARGET POPULATION OF THE PROJECT

Government users at Aceh and Yogyakarta

DETAILS OF COMPONENT

• Migration from proprietary-typed to open-source software
The purpose of this component is to make government users switch their use of proprietary software – both application and operating system – to OSS. So the key challenge is to provide these users with a starter kit enabling them to easily switch to OSS. Included in the starter kit are a compilation of software bundled into one with the purpose of easing the process of distributing the software; a variety of OSS applications developed during the project and usable in both open-source and proprietary operating system; the guidelines instructing users how to carry out the migration; guidelines to use the OSS operating system, and other documents found related to OSS.
To get these elements right, there will be a study comparing other countries’ lessons learnt with Indonesia’s in implementing OSS. Following such a study is an assessment inventorying efforts to carry out the migration. The scope of the assessment, however, is limited to preliminarily-selected government personal computers (PC) as well as to users’ capacity in operating both hardware and software installed in the PC.
Important variables to be taken under consideration when conducting the assessment are:
• Whether hardware and software installed in the computer will remain interoperable and compatible after migration. This is essential as some OSSs are presumed to be incompatible to certain kinds of hardware or proprietary-based operating system.
• Whether the format currently used for storing data has a long span of usage, that is, not be changed by any proprietary vendor by the time the project is completed;
• Whether implementation of OS-based operating system will be viable;
• Whether OSS to replace proprietary application can run properly under such proprietary-based operating system as Windows.
• What types of software are actually needed but not yet available;
• Whether OSS already developed by ministry are suitable to these users’ needs and what sort of OSS that will be best developed

The assessment will cast several possibilities determining how the starter kit will be developed. One possibility likely to occur is that given users must have been comfortable with using proprietary-type operating system such as Microsoft Windows, they will keep using it but will be willing to use open-source applications run under Windows. Of these applications, only a few but a variety will be selected by users, and these applications are typically the ones generally used for office needs and emulating features of proprietary-type application. Other possibilities would be that the users are interested in using IGOS as well the applications contained therein, or that the users are interested not in IGOS but in new operating system as well as the applications contained therein.

The methodology for – and the duration of – the assessment will be based upon the scale of government agencies’ structure (how big it is), the number of PCs they have, and their network topology. For now, the number of PCs to be surveyed is set to 20, which is the average number of computers being operated by government agencies as indicated by previous surveys. The questionnaires distributed among users will reveal their needs as well as their literacy in information technology and will determine which operating system and applications turn out to be the most suitable to the needs of these users.

Each assessment team in each province will be led by a field coordinator and a member of steering committee who will be drawn upon local recruitment. Aceh however will have more assessors than Yogyakarta does because of Aceh’s difficult working condition. All teams will be concentrating on preparing the survey, collecting information, creating survey methodology, carrying out the survey, and performing analytical work on the result of the assessment as well as delivering well-informed recommendation. Three additional members of steering committee based in Jakarta will be playing a role similar to the ones in pilot project area.

Initial steps of development phase are to conduct analysis defining functional specification of OSS based on requirement shown by the users and to carry out programming accordingly. OSS already developed, however, will encounter anomalies, thereby requiring effort to contain problems – fixing bugs – until the program could run according to what it is designed for. Once tested and found running properly, the OSS will be installed at computers on which the assessment building such development is conducted.

The team carrying out OSS development will consist of two engineers/ programmers, a graphic designer, two documenter, and two tester – all led by the national coordinator.

Migration and how-to-use-OSS guidelines will be developed by two persons – the two documenters involved in the OSS development phase – led by the national coordinator.
The team carrying out the migration will consist of those who carried out the assessment and trainers to assist users in dealing with migration-related problem.
By the third month, the assessment should have been completed and presented in a comprehensive document, which will be used as the basis of the development phase. By the fifth month, development of OSS should have been completed, along with the development of repository, which definition will be explained below. By the sixth month, starter kit consisting both OSS and guidelines will be completed and all these will be presented in a comprehensive document.


Summary of Activities

• Carrying out comparison study, preliminary data collection, and preliminary analysis to determine sampling methodology (number of computers to be sampled, what to sample, and questionnaires for government users);
• Conducting sampling, analyzing results of assessment, proposing recommendations – all represented in a comprehensive report which becomes the basis of development phase;
• Developing and modifying OSS. Fixing emerging anomalies rendered by OSS.
• Carrying out migration at selected PCs in the pilot project area
• Repository

The migration process will no doubt cast problems that cause confusion among users who turn to OSS. To deal with this issue, this component is to provide users with access to a repository – a website developed as an interactive archive whereby users will be able to post questions and seek appropriate solution regarding problem encountered during and after migration process. In addition to resolving problems, users will also be able to acquire information on updates related to OSS development.
The content entailed in the repository, however, will not be limited to the above and instead will incorporate anything the report of the assessment suggests.
Development of repository will commence as soon as development of starter kit begins. The repository team will consist of a coordinator, two persons responsible for archiving and for responding to questions addressed by users, and a web programmer and a web designer.

Summary of activities

• Inventory of relevant information on problems encountered and resolutions found regarding OSS migration;
• Recruitment of web developer(s) and persons responsible for documentation
• Development of selected content/services prototypes, including “local” content such as list of OSS providers, etc.
• Developmental testing of repository
• Full scale implementation of services developed

CAPACITY BUILDING

Users participating in the program are assumed to have rudimentary knowledge of OSS and will therefore require to build their capacity to carry out the migration process as well as to use the operating system and applications built on it. Likewise, open source community members at the local level are expected to maintain the result of the project as well as to assist users who encounter technical difficulty.
For such purposes, there will be guidelines accompanied by organized trainings provided for both users and local open-source community members. The materials for the guidelines are readily available in Indonesian and English and abundantly provided in the bookstores and the internet, but need to be compiled and integrated into guidelines possibly contained in web-based, video-based, paper-based media and/or CD ROMs. The incorporation of English content into the guidelines will require translation, and the guidelines may be self-explanatory or taught by an instructor, which will be provided by Guna Darma University.

Summary of activities

• Development of curriculum and learning material including identification, adaptation and translation of relevant training material and toolkits for migration and OSS guidelines;
• Identification of locally available training facilities and resources and locally-based human resources who are ready to assist in training users (on a commercial or volunteer basis).
• Training of local open source community members to carry out maintenance and trouble shooting of OSS.
• Migration and OSS training courses, using developed guidelines and facilitated by trainers will be organized.

Awareness raising, policy dialogues, and establishment of partnership

The purpose of this component, among others, is to funnel sporadic initiatives on OSS development into one effort making this project a success and sustaining its impact. This could be done by disseminating information on lessons learnt related to this project. The component is also to coordinate stakeholders involved in this project to periodically convene to check on progress of each development stage of the project – post-assessment, starter kit preparation, repository and capacity building.

Besides coordination and awareness raising, the component is to specifically address ambiguous policies deemed unworkable to the condition of OSS development. Of these, the one really concerned are policies favoring vendors that procure hardware incompatible to OSS implementation, particularly in tender carried out by the government, and depriving ICT players to engage in business-oriented OSS services.

Drawing upon results of assessment and pilot project, stakeholders playing the role of policy maker should be able to work on these policies to effectively stimulate OSS development and sustain its impact.

For all these to happen, the project requires a feedback mechanism through regular meetings as well as assurance that resources developed are shared by as many stakeholders as possible. Resources required for all these sub-components include funds given by donors and in-kind contribution provided by stakeholders.

Summary of Activities

• Identification of additional partners at local and national level;
• Preparation of material (printed material, video clips, power point programs, multimedia programs, news paper articles, etc.) describing the functions and potential benefits of the migration;
• Development of a portal (This will also become a website used as repository) for the project with all relevant information and links to the participating projects web sites;
• Building awareness among users and mobilization of partners through visits and discussions and by means of demonstration of OSS in action;
• Organization of workshops/discussion forum at local and national level to disseminate information and evaluation reports about the pilot projects.
• Sustainability/ continuation of the project
Sustainability of the project will first of all depend upon how capable the users are in using the OSS and guidelines developed in this project and how useful the repository is. Secondly, the users must have developed an interest in both using the OSS and furthering its potential. Also of important to sustainability is the willingness of local partners to engage in income-generating OSS services to bear all cost associated with the trainings and further OSS development resulted from this project. To get these factors working, there ought to be crystal-clear policies promoting the use of OSS. Some of these to be worked on are policies regarding provision of hardware incompatible to OSS and incentive to keep these users as well as local partners using and developing OSS.

By the end of project activities, the project – should the migration is proven successful – will be scalable to parts of the national level and replicable to other provinces and will become the basis of national help desk.

IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENT

Leading the implementation of the project, Airputih will be working closely with the ministry of research and technology, other governmental agencies involved in IGOS and OSS development, Linux community and Gunadarma University. The role of the ministry is to provide Airputih with access to sampling governmental computer terminals and to work on policies regarding the development of OSS and its migration. Airputih, Linux community (YPLI of the pilot project area) and Gunadarma University will carry out the analysis, design and implementation of OSS.

Because Aceh’s and Yogyakarta’s KPLI have a profound role in sustaining the activity of the project, they will be highly involved in developing the program, in training. To date, all stakeholders have demonstrated their commitment in a Memorandum of Understanding to be endorsed soon. The draft of the MoU defines what the stakeholders listed in the MoU will do, the duration of their activities, and the expected results.