Unsyiah And Aceh Digitalism In The Era of Industry 4.0

Aceh who has been experienced militarism era for quite sometimes is still having difficulty to get out from the shell of closure, eventhough this militarism era has ended 13 years ago.

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As a result, the motion of Aceh development is very much depend on the model of commando leadership.

At the end, Aceh movements is full of bet, because it depends on the presence of the promised leader.

Whereas this world is already in the era of industry 4.0 which marked by the expand of Artificial Intelligence, robotics, nano technology, biotechnology, and blockchain.

This era of industry 4.0 will make a country become a place to stay just phisically. Now even there is some country, such as Estonia, who has strong ambition to create digital country with digital economics as well.

President of Indonesia Republic, Joko Widodo during his visit in Hanoi, vietnam, Thursday (9/13) on World Economic Forum on ASEAN has tight collaboration with Cisco for Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program.

Indonesia is the first country in South East Asia who take part on this program. In Indonesia, this program will be ocus on five main area, which are digital government, digital industry, digital government-owned cooperation, cyber security and digital inclusion.

This agreement was published on the meeting between President Joko Widodo and Cisco Asean President Naveen Menon, and Cisco Indonesia Managing Director, Marina Kacaribu.

Source: https://swa.co.id/swa/trends/economic-issues/ri-dan-cisco-sepakati-program-akselerasi-negara-digital

Prior to this agreement, on April 2018, President Joko Widodo inaugurated the Making Indonesia 4.0 as the road map toward Industry 4.0. At the beginning of its implementation, this roadmap will be ocus on five manufactures, which are food and drinks industry, textile and garment, automotive, chemical, and electronics.

To support the Making Indonesia 4.0 infrastructure, the Ministry o Industry is reported in synergy with Ministry of Communication and Informatics to start providing 5G network, particularly inside industrial areas.

Before the Making Indonesia 4.0 was inaugurated, on February 2018, Industry Minister , Ir. Airlangga Hartarto, MBA, MMT gave an open lecture with the theme “Industry 4.0 Revolution and Indonesia Human Resources at Unsyiah, Aceh.

Unsyiah Rector, Prof. Dr. Ir. Samsul Rizal, M.Eng., at that time said that the competition in the future will be higher with the presence of the era of Industry 4.0 revolution. In this era, automatically, future work demand will be higher and requires mastery of knowledge and skills. Thus, it needs preparation as early as possible to be able to face all the changes and those development.

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Industrial Minister of Indonesia Republic, Ir. Airlangga Hartarto, MBA, MMT was specifically asked all students at Syiah Kuala University (Unsyiah) to pursue on digital world and start up to be be able to compete in the era of industry 4.0.

Recently, during the open trial at Syiah Kuala University in order to celebrate their 57th anniversary, scientific oration “Higher Education Disruption In The Era of Industry 4.0 Revolution’ was also being highlighted. It was delivered by Prof. Akhmaloka, Ph.D. which supervised by Samsu Rizal and The Head of Unsyiah Alumni Association, Sulaman Abda who continuesly move to bring Unsyiah becoming a university who is able to answer the challenges of times.

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Blockchain itself is being more trusted as the future of industry 4.0 revolution. Blockchain technolgy system is mentioned by a lot of people will make easier for users as well as to provide data security compare to current system which centralized to one source only for all these years.

Klaus Schawn on The Fourth Industrial Revolution, What It means and How to Respond, wrote his view about blockchain and era industry 4.0. He said that when the phisical, digital, and biologycal world continue to merge, new technology and platorm will create possibilitites for citizen to get involve in the government, to speak their voice, coordinate their effort, and even to avoid public authority.

That view is a sign that there are a lot of establishment that will be distributed as the consequences of blockchain presence. Slow management in the government, inefective and close will get a lot of tenses from the public. Efforts to Aceh as a close region will be useless since there will be more people who talk in public.

Corrupts that happened due to plenty of dark room on the planning activity and on government as well as institution’s budget will get a lot of pressure, and public resentment will force all management to have no choice but to implement the latest technolocy approach, which is blockchain as one of it.

One of five blockchain technology which recognized by China government is Steem blockchain. On the mei 17th, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released five ranked on blockchain based on three criterias: technology, application, and innovation. Those five blockchain technology are Ethereum, Steem, Lisk, NEO, and Komodo.

Those five blockchain technology use proof of brain to process decentralized information efficiently and secure. Bitcoin blockhain is on the rank 13th. It means that blockchain innovation is moving very fast that even left Bitcoin as the pioneer is left behind.

In Indonesia, Steem blockchain contribution is quite big to help creative economy by providing content. Especially in Aceh, there are a lot of content creator who got helped by additional income through media which build under the Steem Blockchain, which is Steemit.

Now the question, is Steem blockhain able to become a solution for campus, students, as well as Aceh’s government to answer society demand in the middle of this open era and connected by digital?