Indonesia government mulls over the plan to set up an online university for Islamic studies #EdTech #DataScience #DataAnalytics #Data #AI #ML #University #Indonesia #SouthEastAsia

The Indonesia government has committed to improving the quality of its religious education system and wants to achieve this by digitising its underlying support platform. The digital platform is envisioned to be a dashboard that would enable policy-makers, administrators and educators to fully harness technology and data analytics to develop their future work plans and budget.

Apart from digitizing the support systems, the Indonesia government is also looking at the possibility of setting up an online university for Islamic studies. The move was touted internally as being in line with the country’s plan to digitize their religious education but the proposal is still in the very early stages of discussions.

It would be the first initiative of its type in Indonesia if they decided to go ahead with this idea. The current challenge is to find suitable technology partners and financiers to pull out this project.

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USD250 million was committed to digitize Indonesia’s religious education and expected to achieve learning breakthroughs via data analytics by 2025 #EdTech #DataAnalytics #DataGovernance #DataScience #Onlineuniversity #Education #Indonesia #Southeastasia

The Indonesia government has committed to improving the quality of its religious education system and wants to achieve this by digitising its underlying support platform. The digital platform is envisioned to be a dashboard that would enable policy-makers, administrators and educators to fully harness technology and data analytics to develop their future work plans and budget.

The entire value chain of stakeholders should be able to rely on this digital platform to assess the learning outcomes of their students across the entire nation. Apart from improving the learning outcomes of the students, the educators should also be able to leverage the growing data bank to continuously fine-tune and create relevant education curriculum.

The project is worth about USD250 million. The implementation begun in late 2020 and is expected to roll out over a period of five years i.e. to be fully implemented by around 2025.

Apart from this, the Indonesia government is expected to announce later, a bold move to set up an online university for Islamic studies.

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Myanmar’s real estate sector has crashed as the result of ongoing political unrest #Realestate #Myanmar #SouthEastAsia

“Not only foreign investments but local demand will also drop because of the changing political situation. The construction and real estate sectors will run normally only when the political situation is stable.” said U Kyaw Kyaw Soe from the Myanmar Construction Entrepreneurs Federation.

https://www.mmtimes.com/news/myanmars-real-estate-sector-crashes.html

Myanmar Times reported that purchase and sales of real estate in Myanmar have dropped by almost 100 percent but the source is unverified.

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Philippines government reportedly impressed with Russia’s digitalization journey and sought for help in digitizing its public administration #DataScience #DataAnalytics #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #MachineLearning #ML #Digitalization #Philippines #Russia #Southeastasia

Since the launch of the Digital Transformation Program, the Philippines government has been actively looking for partners to explore best practices and systems to improve its public administration and compliance functions. As part of this initiative, they have test-bedded and is going to progressively roll out an integrated system for processing taxpayers’ information. Their main target is to establish this system throughout the entire Philippines by the end of 2021.

Apart from this integrated system, the Philippines government is still on the lookout for potential partners to improve its public service administration through the utilisation of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data analytics, data science, etc.

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The Philippines government has expressed interest in the Russia’s development journey in harnessing the power of AI, ML and data analytics and is looking forward to establish a bilateral agreement for capability development in transferring best practices, knowledge and technology.

Russia started to use AI and data analytics in their country’s digitalisation journey in 2016 and reported much success in various implementations. Russian government officials have reported to have agreed to provide assistance in some aspects of Philippines’ digitalisation journey.

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Cambodia’s economy had been hit by the worst flooding in decades and the first community outbreak of Covid-19 #flooding #covid19 #Cambodia #Southeastasia

Cambodia’s economy had been hit by the worst flooding in decades and the first community outbreak of Covid-19. The flooding caused many roads to be damaged and disconnected, the logistics of cement and building materials were severely affected.

As a result, construction in flooded areas had to stop. Moreover, with the first wave of the Covid19 transmission, most Phnom Penh projects had to stop construction.

These had a direct impact on Cambodia’s construction and real estate sectors. However, with the decrease in demand in the residential, commercial and industrial segments, the government is attempting to boost the economy by investing more in infrastructure.

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Indonesia’s Corruption Perceptions Index has dropped and the government is trying to reverse the trend with their Online Single Submission system #Technology #Corruption #Data #Indonesia #SoutheastAsia

According to the latest figures released by the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), Indonesia’s CPI score has dropped to what it once was in 2015, reversing all the good effort that was achieved from 2016 to 2019. Due to the drop in the CPI score, Indonesia’s CPI rank has dropped to 102th position in 2020, from 85th position in 2019.

Following the release of the CPI ranking, the Indonesia government has issued a reminder to their public and civil service about the need to be careful with such issues.

Previously, the Indonesia administration had implemented the idea of the Public Service Mall (MPP) which basically is to consolidate many related public service units under one roof. The set-up was supposed to ease the physical process of license application so that applicants only have to make a single trip to handle almost everything. Apart from that, the government has also been trying to simplify the digital and hardcopy processes in order to prevent corruption.

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With the Covid19 pandemic ravaging across the entire globe, many countries have taken to setting up online business and government portals so that their public service could continue as usual. Additionally, these online portals also improve transparency of processes and could be a major aid to surfacing any illegal activities.

As such, the Indonesian government is starting to identify more permits and licenses from various agencies and integrate them into the new Online Single Submission (OSS) system. Local businesses reported that the such processes seemed to be faster and more efficient under the OSS system.

Their “Online Rakyat Aspiration and Complaint Service” portal was reported to be one of the most heavily used business portals within the public service. This portal allows the public to report incidents of corruptions and unsatisfactory public services.

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Lazada’s special sale section Cameron Farmers integrates with Malaysia Cameron Highlands’ farmers to enable end-to-end logistics during second Covid19 lockdown #Logistic #ecommerce #farming #Malaysia

During Malaysia’s first Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020, Lazada established Cameron Farmers, a special sales section to help growers who were being forced to discard their fresh produce due to supply chain issues.

Since then, Cameron Farmers has cultivated a store following of nearly 30,000 and sells an average of 10 tonnes of fresh produce each month.

As Malaysia re-entered its lockdown on 11 January 2021 and on 1 February extended the lockdown for another two weeks. Cameron Farmers once again enabled farmers to continue with their business operations.

Apart from ensuring the farmers’ business operations, the farmers are still trying to cope with their land tenure which is tied to the Temporary Occupation License (TOL) system and to ensure that their TOL are renewed annually.

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Russian Railways embarks on digitalisation journey with USD117million loan from Russian government #digitalisation #digitalization #Automation #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Microprocessor #Russia

Russian Railways targets to transform its operations and aims to be a high-tech company. The strategy is to create a new generation of automated jobs that will enable the company to automatically organise the transportation process and manage most aspects of their infrastructure.

In detail, they envision a system that allows them to obtain real-time and detailed information about their transportation operations, produces live updates of their production facilities, automating most operations and to be able to make management decisions that are augmented by human experts.

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It is expected that they would be using their domestically produced Baikal and Elbrus microprocessors for the upgrade. The Baikal microprocessors is a line of microprocessors that were developed by Baikal Electronics, a spin-off of the Russian supercomputer company T-Platforms. The Elbrus line of microprocessors that is developed by the Bruk Institute of Electronic Control Computers, an affiliate of the concern Avtomatika.

Russian Railways secured an agreement for approximately USD$117 million under a loan programme administered by the Russian government for this purpose.

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Indonesia government mulls over adoption of data science, data analytics and data governance tools to create relevant policies #DataCenters #DataScience #DataAnalytics #DataGovernance #Indonesia

The Indonesia government announced that they are thinking of transforming and transiting to being a data-driven organisation through the holistic adoption of data science, data analysis and data governance tools. The decision to adopt advanced analytic tools, is in line with their vision to continue to be relevant in a technology-driven age.

With a digital platform underpinning the administration, they are expected to glean deeper insights, connect the dots and to produce relevant policies that could further improve their economy.

If the Indonesia government remains committed to this move, they could potentially value-add to their economy by leveraging the private sector’s ability to deliver the platform. If augmented with a well thought out policy, a system like this could easily span several industries and create employment opportunities for the young graduates in Indonesia.

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The only disadvantage to this approach is the project duration because the administration would need to carefully plan their requirements, set out a realistic implementation plan with risk mitigation strategies, communicate and collaborate with the private sector and institutes of higher learning.

If executed properly, they could create employment opportunities throughout the entire project implementation, benefit from the insights and experiences and create greater business and employment opportunities. This is a challenging task which requires a lot of hard work and focus, and best supported by a committed taskforce to spearhead the initiative.

Pulling off a system like this, will require substantial investments in data centres so that the administration could safely store their confidential information away. Apart from the actual construction of the data centres, they would be expected to engage the entire value-chain of engineers who are trained in mechanical, electrical, cooling and environmental technology.

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A small data centre would be about the size of a basketball court and a big data centre easily spans across the entire perimeter of a soccer field. Given the large population in Indonesia, it is expected that the government would be required to build a fairly large data centre.

Maybe several. Why? Because data keeps growing and eventually they’ll need to have a strategy for handling old data. You can’t just delete everything away, right? That’s not the professional way to handle old data.

Additionally, there’s also the need to provide training academies for nurturing data scientists, cyber-security experts and the provision for annual certifications to keep the data scientists committed to continuous upgrading and improvement.

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Due to the advancements in technology, companies are exploring data centres as an alternative to energy storage as well. As such, there is potential to unlock more synergies by combining their digitalisation journey with their energy transition plans. This would signal well to potential investors about the administration’s whole-of-government thinking and ability to create synergies.

Or, they could simply outsource the entire implementation to companies like Amazon that might be able to provide a plug-and-play system. Just add one more item to the yearly budget, raise money through SBSN and pay companies like Amazon to do the hard work.

The latter option would certainly make lives easier.

No?

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Indonesia government targets to reduce 29% of greenhouse gases emission by 2030 #ClimateChange #Renewable #CleanEnergy #Indonesia

The Indonesia government plans to reduce GHG emissions by 29 percent by 2030 and that should work out to about 834 million tonnes of CO2. It is quite a stretch target and the government would have to develop a rigorous Greenhouse Gases (GHG) reduction and energy transformation plan and keep a tight rein on their yearly targets in order to achieve their goals.

Why is it a challenging target?

Let me work it out so that you could have a clearer picture of what’s going on and appreciate the situation better. Using the calculations provided by the EPA for rough estimations:

8.89 × 10-3 metric tons CO2/gallon gasoline × 11,484 VMT car/truck average × 1/22.3 miles per gallon car/truck average × 1 CO2, CH4, and N2O/0.989 CO2 = 4.63 metric tons CO2E/vehicle /year

Converting it to tons would yield the result of about 4.19941 tons CO2E/vehicle /year

CO2 emission from a vehicle per year

For anyone to appreciate how enormous this task is, I will give you the following figure: in order to achieve a reduction of 834 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030, the Indonesian government would have to reduce the number of vehicles by almost 19.56 million vehicles per year.

Reducing 19.56 million vehicles per year is equivalent to stripping all passenger vehicles from the entire Australia. To reach their sustainability goal, the Indonesia government would have to strip 10 X Australia of their passenger vehicles. 

I have to point out that this is not the strategy adopted by the Indonesia government. That’s just some figures for appreciation. Of course, they are banking on using a replacement strategy to achieve approximately 38% of their committed targets and the breakdown is approximately as follow:

A quick look reveals that the strategies with the most impact are (1) Renewable energy, (2) Clean energy and (3) Energy efficiency.

Renewable energy and clean energy are interesting topics.

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What are renewable energy and clean energy?

Renewable energy is energy that is generated from natural processes that are continuously replenished. This includes sunlight, geothermal heat, wind, tides, water, and various forms of biomass. This energy cannot be exhausted and is constantly renewed.

It is important to note that the terms renewable energy and clean energy are not interchangeable. Not all renewable energy methods are clean energy. For example, geothermal power is renewable energy source but some of the ways it can be processed can have a negative impact on the environment. The benefits of clean energy are that it reduces our reliance on fossil fuels and can mitigate climate change.

What other ideas the Indonesia government should bank on, to reduce GHG emissions by 29 percent by 2030?

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