A glimpse of the past
“PaguyubanNet”,
the earliest form on Internet in Indonesia was established in 1993, as a
result of considerable effort and expertise contributed by a handful of
national digital pioneers. “Paguyuban” is a Bahasa Indonesian
word meaning “helping each other”.
Prior to the establishment
of PaguyubanNet, in 1986, early network development was inspired leading
amateur radio pioneers. This
inspiration was carried forward by similar radio experiments performed by
students at the Amateur Radio Club (Institute of Technology of Bandung (ITB).
As a result of financial
restrictions, all experiments were run on first generation personal
computers (with 64KB of RAM) and used radio for data communications.
The speed of transmission was 1/10000 of the speed of WiFi today.
Since 2001, the Director for Vocational Schools at the Ministry of Education
has been leading the integration of more than 1500 vocational schools to the
Internet through WiFi. Much ground is left to be covered with a total of
1300 colleges / universities, 10,000 high schools, 10,000 Islamic schools,
4,000 vocational schools yet to be connected.
This journey towards
achieving low-cost connectivity was complemented with many talented and
dedicated Indonesians who enjoyed sharing their knowledge, expertise and
resources for the betterment of Indonesian society. Today, the learning and
development process is continued through various Indonesian mailing lists,
such as, orari-news@yahoogroups.com, indowli@yahoogroups.com, and genetika @groups.or.id.
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