Need Insurance For Computer Purchase

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta:
Association of Indonesian Internet Service Provider (APJII) proposed that the government pension funds and insurance encourages workers to provide insurance coverage for the purchase of computers. This effort is essential to increase the penetration of Indonesian society for computer literacy and information technology.

Chairman APJII, Sylvia W. Sumarlin, said insurance such as Social Security can withdraw funds after membership members' purchases of computers for five years. This method has been implemented in Malaysia since last ten years. The Malaysian government requires each insurance company providing coverage of computer ownership of a lifetime.

"As a result, Malaysia has now become one of the countries leading the development of information technology in the world," said Sylvia. Currently, computer penetration in Indonesia only reached six million units with growth of 25 percent from more than 220 million Indonesian population. Development of Internet networks will not be useful if the population in most parts of Indonesia does not have a computer.

Eko Nopiansyah