"This PDN development has made a big contribution in the context of national data management, at least to support the electronic government in making more accurate state policies," Plate noted.
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The government is making preparations to build four National Data Centers (PDN) to support the implementation of data-driven policies that are efficient, effective, and transparent for ensuring better public service.

"The government will build four PDN with global Tier-IV standards, a very high level for data center standards," Minister of Communication and Informatics, Johnny G. Plate, stated during his working visit to Batam, Riau Islands, as quoted from a press statement received here, Saturday.

The government had planned to build a PDN in the Deltamas Industrial Estate (Jabodetabek), Nongsa Digital Park in Batam, the new capital city (IKN) Nusantara in East Kalimantan, and Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara (NTB).

This PDN was established to help the government implement one data management that will help it to use data-driven policies to formulate regulations accurately.

"This PDN development has made a big contribution in the context of national data management, at least to support the electronic government in making more accurate state policies," Plate noted.

The minister remarked that qualified data management in the public sector and as a service to the government needs is a must in terms of personal data, non-personal data, and electronic transactions.

He later noted that the PDN will function as a digital data warehouse, while the appointed ministries and agencies will serve as the data administrator. Meanwhile, the data administrator in the private sector was the operator of the private electronic system.

"Technical details regarding the storage capacity or memory and processor capacity are still being drafted by the government," Plate remarked.

He noted that the central and local governments had currently operated over 2,700 data centers. Of this figure, only three percent used cloud-based storage, thereby creating further obstacles to data interoperability.

Translator: Natisha Andarningtyas, Resinta
Editor: Agus Setiawan
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