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Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Minister Marwan Jafar says the government is ready to provide an Internet connection to more than 5,000 villages in the country.

To anticipate the project, Marwan urged village heads to build their information technology skills so that they could communicate online with their villagers.

“All village heads must be knowledgeable about the Internet,” Marwan said as quoted by tribunnews.com.

Read more: ID: Over 5,000 villages to connect to Internet

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) intends to streamline the process of procuring goods and services for the government in the future, Cabinet Secretary Andi Widjojanto stated on Thursday after meeting President Jokowi at the Presidential Palace.

"President Jokowi has instructed Chairman of the Board of Procurement of Government Goods and Services (LKPP) Agus Rahardjo to design a system, which will improve the process of procuring goods and services," Andi stated.

Read more: ID: Process of procuring goods and services to be streamlined: Jokowi

Indonesian government is planning to ultimately use information technology to run its government by adopting the e-government system used in South Korea, a senior official said on Thursday.

"E-government is the answer to modern governing system, using an integrated information technology system," State Apparatus and Bureaucracy Empowerment Minister Yuddy Chrisnadi said on the sidelines of a forum to heed an MoU on e-government and bureaucracy reform cooperation between Indonesia and South Korea held here.

Read more: Indonesia mulls adopting S. Korean e-government system

Agencies have not used existing shared services to their full capacity, resulting in wasteful expenditure.

The Indonesian government will regulate to push all ministries and agencies next year to use shared services, the Ministry of Bureaucratic Reform has exclusively told FutureGov.

The government is working on regulations to “push every single ministry and agency to use … [a] single system”, Rini Widyantini, Deputy Minister for Institutional Affairs told FutureGov.

Read more: Indonesia to regulate so that ministries use shared services in 2015

Indonesia plans to adopt the Republic of Koreas e-Government system and aims to fully implement it by 2019, an Indonesian minister said here on Thursday.

"South Korea has a proven track record in implementing information and communication technology in governance," Minister for Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Yuddy Chrisnandi stated at the RI-ROK e-Government Collaboration Forum. The theme of the forum is Smarter Strategy for Better Government.

Read more: Indonesia to adopt e-Government policy from ROK

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