Central Java has become the first province in Indonesia to get a data center and entered the list of the National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN) for digitalization acceleration.

“This is an effort to develop digitalization. Of course, it needs more than a statement but needs to ready the infrastructure. This data center is needed to collect all existing data,” Governor Ganjar Pranowo said during the inauguration of the Central Java Data Center here on Tuesday.

According to him, the data center can be utilized maximally by all sectors, sub-sectors, and regional government agencies (OPDs) in districts and cities of Central Java.

Giving an example, he said that offices in the agricultural sector can retrieve all data related to weather, area, type of plants, regions, planting times, and harvests, among others, with the help of artificial intelligence.

“If all OPDs can take advantage of this, of course, all decisions will be much more precise than using estimations. We hope that this data center will make the digitization process much faster,” he remarked.

In addition, he noted that the establishment of the data center is an effort to support an electronic-based government system.

“We have been asked to support an electronic-based governance system, and now, we are starting to tidy it up. If back then the storage was insufficient, the place was separate, now it is centered here, and we are assisted by BSSN,” he said.

The governor expressed the hope that the effort would become a leap toward a more advanced and modern system.

Head of BSSN Hinsa Siburian lauded Governor Pranowo’s move to establish a data center.

“We express gratitude to the governor and the provincial government of Central Java. We are currently building a national data center. Later, we will look at it, and we will assist it so that it can be connected to the national data center,” Siburian said.

Source: Antara News