BANYUWANGI – The "Smart Village" program initiated by the Banyuwangi Regency Government has succeeded in spurring the village government to produce a number of innovations. Now, Village governments are competing to innovate to improve information technology-based public services and hold services at night.
As did Temurejo Village, Bangorejo Banyuwangi District, which innovates in the field of public services to managing the tourism business. Temurejo Village is one of 41 villages that are pilot projects for the "Smart Village" program, a village development program in Banyuwangi to bring public services closer to the village level.
Each village is designed to have an integrated program framework that combines the use of information and communication technology (ONLY), productive economic activity, creative economic activities, improvement of health-education, and poverty alleviation.
Temurejo Village Head Fuad Musyadad said, the "Smart Village" program has become a driving force for village governments to provide more services to residents. Among them by providing administrative services at night for residents.
This evening service is held once a week, that is, on a Sunday night. “We open at night to accommodate our residents who work outside the village. They usually come back on weekends, so they can take care of it without having to interrupt their working hours,” he said.
Before Temurojo Village, several other villages also open public services at night. One of the villages that has held night services is Tegalarum Village, Sempu Kecamatan District. “We hold services at night to provide convenience to residents who don't have time during the day,” uiar Kades Tegalarum, Ahmad Turmudzi some time ago.
The Temurejo Village Government is also active in resolving the problems of its residents, This village synergizes its program with programs at the service level (regency). Such as the program of the Regional Movement of Youth to Drop Out of School (Powerful Guard).
In this village there are seven school dropouts who are returning to school. Foad added, his party has also formed a Village Owned Enterprise (Bumdes) one of its business lines is managing agro-tourism services.
The tours offered are tours that highlight local potential, namely picking dragon fruit and oranges. Temurejo Village is one of the horticultural production centers in Banyuwangi. “Usually tourists want to see up close the activities of dragon fruit and orange farmers while picking and tasting directly in the garden,” Fuad said.
In order to further open the horizons of its citizens, The Temurejo Village Government has equipped a number of its public spaces with wireless internet access. Starting from the village hall office to the Temurejo hamlet hall. In addition to speeding up public services, citizen-mandated internet presence free of charge.
Citizens of this internet user of various ages. Starting from students to get information, to teachers to complete reports and add insight to learning. “It used to be only approx 25 access, now increased to 125 people who access the internet for free every day. We will continue to add wifi points in this village.
The plan is up 16 point. Even though our village is directly adjacent to the forest, however I want my citizens not to be left out of the information,” Fuad said. (radar)
