Indonesia to explore its own ‘GovTech’ by scaling up the Ministry of Health’s Digital Transformation Office

The Indonesian Government is exploring a new strategy to accelerate public sector digital transformation by expanding the Ministry of Health’s Digital Transformation Office (DTO) from a national to a local level. The scaling of the digital transformation office (DTO) will be one of the Government’s strategies to realise the Indonesia Digital 2045 Vision. Photo: Adhouse Clarion Event "We need an independent state agency that really focuses on solving various problems with digital tools," said Arifin Saleh Lubis, Head of the Planning Bureau of the Ministry of Communications and Information, during his opening remarks at a panel held during the Digital Transformation Indonesia Conference and Expo (DTI-CX) recently. Speaking at the event, which was held on 26 and 27 July in Jakarta, Arifin said that a team comprising ministry representatives, academics and practitioners is currently exploring the establishment of an independent body that will become the main driver of digital transformation in Indonesia. This independent body will adopt the system and frameworks implemented by the Ministry of Health’s DTO, learning from its successes in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic . This agency can exist at the national level, similar to Singapore’s GovTech, which resides within the Prime Minister’s Office, […]

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