The survey was initiated by the Ministry of Communication and Informatics and Katadata Insight Center (KIC).
"Alhamdulillah (thank God), it rose to 3.54," the ministry's Director General of Informatics Application Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan stated during the launch of the 2022 Digital Literacy Index here on Wednesday.
He noted that the digital literacy index was measured to determine the community's digital literacy levels.
The 2022 national digital literacy index measurement refers to the four pillars of digital literacy: digital skills, digital ethics, digital security, and digital culture.
In the survey, the three pillars whose scores increased from 2021 were digital skills, with a score of 3.52, an increase of 0.08 points; digital ethics, with a score of 3.68, an increase of 0.15 points; and digital security, with a score of 3.12, an increase of 0.02 points.
Meanwhile, the score of the digital culture pillar declined by 0.06 points to 3.84.
Yogyakarta and West Kalimantan are the provinces, with the highest digital literacy index score, at 3.64, followed by East Kalimantan and West Papua, with 3.62, and Central Java, 3.61.
Pangerapan expressed gratitude over the achievement and is upbeat that the national digital literacy index score could later reach 4. To achieve the target, the ministry continues to make various efforts, including by boosting the National Digital Literacy Movement (GNLD) in various regions.
Some 10 thousand respondents from 514 districts and cities in Indonesia participated in the 2022 Digital Literacy Index survey conducted through the multistage random sampling method from August to September 2022.
Data collection was conducted through face-to-face interviews, with the targeted population of Indonesians in the age bracket of 13-70 years that accessed the internet in the last three months.
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Translator: Fathur Rochman, Raka Adji
Editor: Azis Kurmala
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