Adoption Process of ODF as National Standard in Indonesia

Abstract

The availability of different office applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations yield difficulties for the public for sharing documents. For example, Office A using Open Office writer, could not be opened in the office B perfectly, that uses Microsoft Word. Or when opened, the format becomes a mess and should be adjusted again. Standardization of document formats needed for both, and many other office applications with no problem sharing. Standardization is also important for backwards compatibility (backward compatibility) of the documents to be stored in a long time. For example, the legal documents in libraries or in institutions of government. This paper will discuss the stages and procedures for the adoption of Open Document Format (ODF) conducted by the National Standards Organization (BSN) and involves several components of interested parties joined in MASTAN as Indonesian National Standard (SNI), as well as Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informasi (Kemkominfo).