Sci&Tech History

Reading Indonesia’s technology policies documents, delivers me to words such as human welfare, justice and poverty reduction. Should technology discourse related directly to poverty, or is it better to talk about national system innovation and see poverty reduction as an impact? The first one indicated no differentiation among government agencies in Indonesia. Every agency want to play a role from policy until practice. While the second one, indicate role distribution. Technology agencies have a role to make the innovation system work so they can sustain due to funding reduction whereas poverty issues will be conducted by planning agencies.

In it implementation, every agency has their own plan and technology policy. Is it a matter of trust or coordination? Why there are a lot of overlapping and ironically, nothing happened? I’ve got enough of big words, all I want is a real concept based on research and how the concept can be implemented. Hmmm… where does the poverty discourse goes? Does poverty reduction means charity such as Bantuan Langsung Tunai or we have to give them a little more pride so they can fight with their own hand?

I don’t know… I always impress with Grameen Bank, or even extra legal Hernando de Soto. Both talk about pride of being a human, how everyone can survive as long as they want it and being accomodate. In extra legal case, the rural people create a new system. Maybe there is something missing in understanding our society. How Indonesian people keep survive among these difficult time or on the contrary, ‘maintain’ their own difficulties? Does it related with traditional culture or there are something beyond?

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