National Education Network, IT for Education

If we watching TV's adverstiment recently, there is a adv by Adi Bing Slamet, which describe how the headmasters needn’t meet together for meeting. They are just sit in their offices and online talking via Teleconference. All of that allowed by network technology (Intranet, Internet). That Indonesian Education network called Jardiknas (National Education Network - with website www.jardiknas.org.)
National Education Network is a network (in form of WAN-WIDE of Area Network) connective national scale education thousands of education institution in Indonesia angle. Blazed the way since September 2006, National Education Network opened by President Yudoyono on 14 March 2007. this network have 4 zona, namely National Education Network Office On duty / institution (Diknasnet), National Education Network College ( INHERENT), National Education Network Go to school the (Schoolnet), and also National Education Network Learn and Student ( TeacherNet and StudentNet). In this time, National Education Network represent the network ICT (Information And communication tecnology) biggest of Indonesia, reaching entire or town of 33 province in Indonesia.
By National Education Network, go to school and institute the other education can each other convert the data and information, and exploit the fitur like phoning free of charge via VOIP, video conference, learn the long distance, system center the data, web hosting and server, and also enamel service ( user@diknas.go.id). Each school even get to access the conducive internet always incircuit to network. Network technician in every school ( Diknas give the opportunity of student to become the network technician), teacher, student, and education mankind can access to develop the database Education. Important Resource And content like materials teach (especially which interaktif / multimedia), study method nowadays, database of number of mains of national student, database go to school and, teacher database, can be managed and exploited with. For the infrastructure of its, PT Telkom showed by Depdiknas have developed and provide the network of Virtual Private Network-Internet Protocol ( VPN-IP) in 441 town of Indonesia. Bandwith utilized for the National Education Network of equal to 200 Mbps, what its distribution to schools use the Speedy Broad-Band Access.
For the zona of college, media access used is fibre of optic and satellite, network capacities ( bandwith) 2 Mbps to 155Mbps have, technology STM-1, VSAT IP Dedicated or Leased Line. Office Zona On duty / institution, with the media of optic fibre, wireline and satellite bandwith 256 Kbps to 2Mbps have, technology to MPLS,
VPN IP, and VSAT. Zona go to school, hence wireless and wireline, by bandwith 64 Kbps to 1 Mbps, technological of AD-SL And Wireless 2.4 Ghz. While zona learn and student, using seluler and wireline, 32 Kbps to 384 Kbps by ADSL, 3G / UMPTS, GPRS,
SDMA, Dial Up.
Infrastructure and its Operational of course require the fund, what is by
Mendiknas Bambang Sudibyo allocation for the price of Rp. 42 triliun or about 11,2 percentage of APBN 2006. Headmaster, teacher, Arrange the Effort, and student have to be chummy and skilled of Information Technology ( IT), hardware good ( dekstop / laptop by various peripherial like webcam, projector, etc.) and also various application like office, internet (browsing, searching, downloading), e-mail, chatting, video chatting (telekonferensi),
milis, web / blog, network treatment, and fill the content. For that, Diknas continued to perform a the training to Headmaster, Supervisor of school, Teacher, Employees, an Iibrarian.
With the network and access this internet, school can provide to access free of charge through the computer lab or antenna; wifi. To build the lab. Computer, year 2008 government of fund allocation of Rp 1 Trillion, each Rp 500 milliard for the High School the / Vocational high school and Rp 500 milliard for the Junior High School.
Require to be blazed the way also cheap program laptop ( one example of laptop ASUS of EEE) to student and teacher so that can access the wifi provided by a school. Access to this IT of course enrich the information and technological science which is there no in textbook.
If this run better and include entire education community till cloistered, Indonesian it is not impossible will born the entrepeneur TI like Sergey Brin and Larry Page (founder of Google Ins.) its erstwhile even also early its experiment from campus duty. In consequence, constraint like electric current problem (around 30% of indonesian schools not yet been electrifying), also domination of all teacher to English which still weak, becoming our Homework.

(Ernawati Tiastiti Lupitosari, Student ID number: 200704015)
Note: it's actually my article published at Kedaulatan Rakyat (Yogya's newspaper) that have been translated by student from UNSA--all translation is translator responsibility :)).