The Level of E-Government Adoption: The Case of Jogjakarta's Local Governments

Abstract Indonesia ranked 96 out of 191 United Nations’ members state in e-government readiness index.Since Indonesia has a great deal of heterogeneity in term of economic development, infrastructure,and human resources quality, we tried to study the state of e-government adoption by looking atlocal governments. Stanton’s framework wais used to evaluate local government websites. Wefound that the provincial and local government web sites in Jogjakarta had not moved from web-based information publishing to e-transactional presence and far from being an integrated virtualgovernment. 1. Introduction Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Public Administration and DevelopmentManagement of the United Nation had published the report entitled “ UN Global E-governmentReadiness Report 2005 From E-government to E-inclusion ”[20]. With e government readinessindex of 0.3819 Indonesia was ranked 96 out of 191 UN member states 3 . This ranking was farbellow other South East Asia countries such as Singapore (7), The Republic of Philipines (41),Malaysia (43), Thailand (46) and Brunei Darrusalam (73). Indonesia experienced an 11 pointsdecrease compare to prior year ranking (85). This ranking was partly based on web siteassessment.As Indonesia adopting decentralized governance that give considerable autonomy to its provincesand local governments, the whole picture of Indonesia would be better portrayed by assessingprovince and local government web sites. This approach is also of benefit considering Indonesiahas a great deal of heterogeneity in term of economic development, infrastructure and humanresources quality. The Special Province of Jogjakarta, the region where the researchers live, waschosen to be the object of this research.This paper examined the state of Jogjakarta’s local governments web sites ( i.e, Bantul, Sleman,Kulon Progo, City of Jogjakarta and The Special Province of Jogjakarta provincial government)

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