A Brief Discussion on the Challenges to Smart City Implementation of the New Capital City Development

Abstract

A smart city is an effective, efficient, and sustainable answer to the issues and problems that continue to proliferate in metropolitan areas. However, this notion will undoubtedly provide a number of obstacles to building a smart city. This article will briefly explore the IKN-related obstacles that Indonesia would encounter in establishing a Smart City. Indonesian people are no strangers to smartphones and the internet, but technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) are still less familiar to Indonesians. This will certainly pose challenges for districts or cities that want to adopt the smart concept. city. But this can be overcome by using third parties to accelerate the implementation of smart cities. This article will explore briefly the IKN-related obstacles that Indonesia would encounter in establishing Smart City. The methods used in this study are Observation, Literature Study, Focused Group Discussion and In-Depth Interview  with the community and stakeholders. Based on the reviews, it is concluded that the existing restricted service is an impediment that must be overcome in order to establish smart cities in Indonesia, namely the expansion of ICT usage in different government service domains. The government should enhance internet access in places where smart cities will be implemented in Indonesia. In addition, the training of a community that is "literate" in information technology must be enormous and systematic in an attempt to alter people's attitudes about a smart city.