
 
2025  and so  on.  This  existing regulation explicitly 
mentions the importance of using ICT. There is no 
justification  for  local  governments  with  high 
numbers  of  ICT  users  not  to  optimize  the  use  of 
ICTs  at  the  District  /  Township  level  until  the 
Village. 
When  viewing  Law  number  6,  2014  about  the 
Village.  This  law  was  born  because  of  the  many 
demands  in  the  village  independence  instead 
mandated to  utilize ICT  in  catching  up  behind  the 
village and the city. The potential of many villages 
has  not  been  well-explored  and  well-publicized. 
Service to the community is still very conventional. 
If  the  potential  of  the  village  with  all  its  local 
wisdom  can  be  read  in  other  space,  it  is  not 
impossible  that  the  global  village  can  be  realized. 
Also  when  the  service  to  the  public  with  the 
apparatus transform from conventional to digital, it 
is  not  impossible  that  good  governance  will  be 
achieved at the village level. One way to  publicize 
and inform  the  potential  is by  utilizing the Village 
Information System (VIS).  
Many  benefits  can  be  taken  if  ICT  (VIS  as  a 
form of it) can  be utilized optimally. Based on the 
report from OECD (The Organization for Economic 
Co-operation  and  Development)  in  Darmawan 
(2011)  there  are  several  benefits  of  E-Gov  when 
used optimally: improving efficiency in various data 
or information ranging from collecting, , Providing 
information  and  communication  both  within  and 
between governments (Gil-García, 2007).   
The  second  benefit  is  improving  service  to  the 
community, why? Because society does not need to 
know the structure and complex relationships behind 
the  services  provided  by  the  government. 
Bureaucratic  hierarchical  structures  that  seem 
complicated and long services cut by the existence 
of  this  ICT.  A  third  benefit  can  help  socialize 
government policies  including ongoing activities to 
the community so that stakeholders can share ideas 
and  information  regarding  a  policy.  Potential 
villages  that  have  been  buried  will  also  be  built 
through the utilization  of ICT  (Jahja,  2012). Other 
benefits  can  reduce  corruption,  increase  openness 
and trust  in government. The government  can also 
make savings through the process of administration 
and  supply  of  ICT-based  information.  Equally 
important  benefits  are  increasing  trust  between  the 
government  and  its  people,  improving  good 
governance through increased transparency, and the 
effect  will  reduce  corruption.  Similarly,  if  the 
aspirations  and  opinions  of  the  community  can  be 
facilitated  or  accommodated  in  ICT-based  media 
used  by  the  government,  then  community 
participation in building the village will be built. The 
impact woke the sense of  belonging to the village. 
Villages  belong  together  and  do  not  belong  to  a 
handful  of  village  rulers.  When  togetherness  and 
participation  of  villagers  to  their  village  are  built, 
village  empowerment  becomes  more  dignified  and 
poverty will be slowly reduced. 
The  use  of  VIS  was  started  by  the  village  of 
Karangrejo after Kelud disaster arrived. The Village 
Government  considers  the  need  for the  application 
of ICT  as one of the  media to anticipate when the 
disaster comes again which is worried about citizen 
loss  of  property,  objects,  data  and  also  soul.  ICT 
answers the problem of community data whenever a 
disaster occurs so as to minimize undesirable things 
such as loss of Identity Card, Birth Certificate, even 
Certificate  of  Land.  This  is  shared  by  Supadi  64 
years old villager Karangrejo said: 
 
“The  timing  of  last  year's  disaster  was 
frightening,  let  alone  it  was not  the first  time. The 
most powerful was in the 90s. Dark really fitting that 
time. Fear reappeared fitting in 2014. Fear of losing 
all as well as loss of important data mas. Deed of 
land, diploma, let alone to lose family life " 
(Waktu  kejadian  bencana  tahun  lalu  rasanya 
takut  mas,  apalagi  ini  bukan  kali  yang  pertama. 
Yang terdahsyat dulu waktu tahun 90-an mas. Gelap 
banget  pas  waktu  itu.  Ketakutan  muncul  lagi  pas 
tahun  2014  mas.  Ketakutan  kehilangan  semua 
termasuk  juga  kehilangan  data-data  penting  mas. 
Akta  tanah,  ijazah,  apalagi  naudzubillah  sampai 
kehilangan nyawa keluarga mas)  
 
 At the end, the desire of Karangrejo  village to 
have  new  media  devices  through ICT  is  supported 
by  UNDP  (United  Nations  Development  Program) 
in 2015. From 220 villages spread in Blitar district, 
two  villages  are  selected  by  UNDP,  Modangan 
village  and  Karangrejo  village  to  run  new  media 
Known  as  Village  Information System  (hereinafter 
abbreviated  as  VIS).  This  system  is  considered 
effective  in  order  to  save  the  data  as  well  as  a 
storefront  and  village  information  boards  in 
cyberspace. The consequence of UNDP's assistance 
is that villagers voluntarily submit demographic and 
other  data  for  the  purposes  of  this  VIS.  For  more 
than two months the village tools together populate 
the VIS offline to be activated online. The majority 
of  the  residents  welcomed  the  presence  of  this 
assistance  at  the  same  time  as  they  voluntarily 
submitted their data to the village as Nurul said as 
the village of Karangrejo: 
 
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