Infrastructure and access
- Backbone / Backhaul / Middle-Mile Infrastructure4
- Fiber / Fixed Broadband Infrastructure4
- Mobile / Wireless Infrastructure3
- Satellite Infrastructure3
- Digital Public Infrastructure2
Digital Divide Country Profile · Asia
Closing the digital divide, expanding meaningful connectivity, and advancing digital education and workforce participation.
Location in the world
Asia
IndonesiaNational digital inclusion context
This profile organizes the initiatives directly connected to Indonesia in the global research inventory. It follows the study's country-profile framework: national context, broadband infrastructure, inclusion practices, education and workforce connections, implementation actors, and intended contribution.
The documented portfolio emphasizes Backbone / Backhaul / Middle-Mile Infrastructure, Fiber / Fixed Broadband Infrastructure, Mobile / Wireless Infrastructure, Fiber/Fiber Optic, Satellite Broadband. The profile treats infrastructure, affordability, capability, institutions, support, and outcomes as an interconnected system.
Portfolio pattern
Counts reflect source-workbook tags. One initiative may appear in multiple infrastructure or technology categories.
Education and workforce
5 initiatives explicitly connect to education, K–12, or college/university contexts, and 1 connect to workforce development. Other investments may enable these outcomes indirectly.
Networks, service availability, devices, and connection quality.
Skills, confidence, accessibility, navigation, and support.
Education, work, health, government, and civic opportunity.
Governance, operations, maintenance, funding, and learning.
Project and initiative portfolio
Every directly tagged record is shown with details and supporting URLs preserved from the research workbook.
Rural mobile broadband
Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.
Activities and approach: Mandatory 4G service tied to spectrum award
Rural mobile broadband
Builds 4G base stations in non-commercial villages to eliminate mobile blank spots.
Activities and approach: 4G BTS; universal-access financing
Rural broadband infrastructure
Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.
Activities and approach: Fiber, microwave and satellite deployment where market investment is weak
Digital identity
Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.
Activities and approach: Mobile digital identity app linked to national ID
Digital social protection
Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.
Activities and approach: National reuse of interoperable ID/data/payment rails
Digital public infrastructure
Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.
Activities and approach: Integrated ID, payments and data-sharing for benefit delivery
Mobile access / affordable devices
Combines mobile connectivity and affordable smart-device access to expand participation in the digital economy.
Activities and approach: Rural mobile access expansion; affordable smart-device ecosystem; bundled digital services
Broadband and telecommunications deployment
Expands or enables connectivity for rural, remote, underserved, or unserved communities, addressing availability and service-quality barriers.
Activities and approach: Network deployment or expansion; connectivity delivery
Remote wireless backhaul and mobile-connectivity expansion
using point-to-point wireless backhaul to extend reliable connectivity in remote areas
Activities and approach: Deployment of point-to-point wireless backhaul linked to Telkomsel service expansion
National fiber backbone
Provides government-backed national fiber backbone in western non-commercial areas.
Activities and approach: Fiber-optic backbone
National fiber backbone
Provides fiber backbone through central Indonesian islands to reduce regional bandwidth gaps.
Activities and approach: Terrestrial and submarine fiber backbone
National fiber backbone
Provides backbone connectivity in the highest-cost eastern regions, enabling downstream operator investment.
Activities and approach: Terrestrial/submarine fiber backbone
Satellite broadband backbone
Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.
Activities and approach: 150 Gbps HTS capacity; 11 ground stations
Public-service connectivity
Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.
Activities and approach: Remote terminals connected by satellite
Community satellite broadband
Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.
Activities and approach: Community access points using SATRIA-1
Emergency connectivity
Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.
Activities and approach: Rapid satellite terminals for emergency communications
Satellite broadband
Uses a 150 Gbps high-throughput satellite to connect public-service locations beyond terrestrial networks.
Activities and approach: HTS satellite; 11 gateways
Connectivity resilience
Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.
Activities and approach: 50-150 Mbps satellite capacity at 154 sites
School connectivity / digital learning
Ensures that new Sekolah Rakyat sites can participate in connected digital learning rather than reproducing geographic and income-based access gaps.
Activities and approach: Internet provisioning; high-speed school connectivity; digital-skills curriculum; LMS-enabled learning; coding and digital-ethics instruction
Evidence boundary
Project records document interventions and intended contributions; they do not alone prove nationwide coverage, causal impact, or durable closure.
Profiles will deepen as national statistics, policy documents, evaluations, and implementation evidence are incorporated. Source links allow inspection of underlying evidence.
These sources support the country-level demographic, geographic, and connectivity context. Sources tied to individual projects remain with their project records and are not repeated here.