Proposed Recommendations / Comments

This comment is submitted to:

Asia Pacific Internet Conference
25-27 March 1999, Bali, Indonesia
This comment will be divided into:
•	Conceptual Framework
•	Proposed Immediate Action
•	Proposed Forward Action
Additional Comments:

•	This comment will be electronically submitted to the Indonesian Regulator at Ministry of Information & Ministry of Post & Telecommunication for their responds, via:

Ms. Erina - Erina@indosat.net.id (Staff member of Secretary Gen. Ministry of Information - IGN Manila Staff).

Mr. Ismail – postel1@rad.net.id (Staff member of Director General of Post & Telecommunication).

•	This comment will be electronically submitted to several Indonesian mailing lists related to Internet regulation activities such as:

Regulasi-internet@itb.ac.id (voluntary group which focus on making consensus on Internet regulation).

e-commerce@itb.ac.id (e-commerce working group lead by Indonesian Telecommunication society – http://www.mastel.or.id)

Proposed Conceptual Framework

Proposed Vision / Mission of The Activities

Facilitate the nation’s transformation towards knowledge based nation / society.

Proposed Strategic Focuses

•	Facilitate Share Knowledge – e.g. library network, distance learning, CD-ROM off-line distribution mechanism, knowledge management.

•	Facilitate Share Resource – e.g. every nations could contribute their extra resources to meet the regional needs / objectives.

•	Collaboration – e.g. cyber dialog forum, cyber space law agreements.

•	Education & Awareness – e.g. awareness for government.

•	Coordination – e.g. coordinate tactical activities via mailing lists.

Proposed Immediate Action

Cyber Dialog Forum

In addition to current physical meeting / dialog, we would like to proposed additional cyber dialog forum over Internet.

As not all nations have Web access, we would like to propose to use E-mail & mailing list as the major mechanism to perform the dialog. We understand that some discussions could be done over the Web for those who have 24 hour Web access.

Technically, it can be performed via Internet mailing list facilitated using majordomo or listserv software. The Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) from Indonesia is willing to share our resource & host the mailing lists at no cost as long as it is open mailing lists for people to join in.

Web Publication & Recipitory Sites

Understand that knowledge sharing on various aspects would be of important, we would like to proposed Web recipetory sites, digital library, web publication should be emphasis to facilitate knowledge sharing.

Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) in Indonesia is willing to mirror the site.

Internet Awareness for Government

We believe Internet policy & regulation framework should involving inter-departmental interaction – as of now, inter-departmental interaction as well as familiarity with Internet & IT is relatively low.

We would like to propose some sort of UNESCO participation to increase Internet awareness as well as inter-departmental interaction within the Indonesian government.

Proposed Long Term Action

Information Balancing & Symmetric Traffic.

Aim for a symmetric traffic pattern among nations – some action consequences in educational sector / increase the level of literacy & education of each nation.

Reciprocal Infrastructure Agreement

Aim for mutual benefit agreement in putting inter-nation / regional Internet backbone. Try to avoid / to minimize current practice which forces small / Asian nations to pay all the leased line to the United States.

Internet Content Rating / Labeling

Rating / Labeling of Internet content should be encouraged to enable the nations to decide its filtering rule.

Focus Aid on Education & Information Technology

If at all possible, would it be possible to encourage donor agency such as JICA, AusAID, DAAD etc to focus its aid towards education & Internet / information technology.