Basuki Ready to Disburse Rp 3 B for Jakarta Smart City
Reported by Folmer | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata
Jakarta Governor, Basuki 'Ahok' T Purnama is going to spend Rp 3 billion to buy the Google Enterprise in order to create Jakarta as a smart city in Indonesia. To realize it, the city administration will cooperate with several technology companies and expand cooperation with Google.
I guess the price is cheap, only spend Rp 3 billion. We continuing updates from Google. It will be ours forever
"I guess the price is cheap, only spend Rp 3 billion. We continuing updates from Google. It will be ours forever. There is no more spending money and all activities will be transparent," he stated, at City Hall, Tuesday (12/2).
"We believe, Jakarta would be the first smart city in Indonesia and most of the area would be filled with fiber optics. 4G will have begun and CCTVs also have been installed in our city," he continued.
Jakarta Designs Application to Accommodate Citizen ComplaintsHe uttered civil servants serving under the city administration must be familiar with the smartphone in order to encourage the capital into a smart city. The officials also asked to use a special application and must report their activities per day.
"Besides as a means of responding to resident reports in real time, the application aims to detect the employees position," he explained.
Ahok also launched 4G networks for 3,000 CCTVs on main roads of the capital. "The whole activity of employee, ambulance, firefighter, our heavy equipment, can be tracked. People can also help us to monitor them," he uttered.
Head of Jakarta Communication, Informatic, and Public Relation Department, Agus Bambang S plans to conduct socialization how to use the application, Qlue. It can be downloaded at Google PlayStore.
"Such application is made for resident reporting. For instance, you photographed trash, then the picture and its location will appear on the application. Our employees also have application to receive the report. When the message comes up, it will immediately be responded. Certainly, the officers near the site must directly follow up it," he expressed.
He added, the whole urban village head will be summoned on December 12 to socialize the application usage. "In January 2015, the application is targeted can already be used," he disclosed.
