E-Government Implementation in Indonesia: Financial Transparency on the Web

Abstract

This paper describes a feature of the website of local government in Indonesia and analyzing the digital divide of financial transparency on the Internet. The research objects are the website of 33 province, 349 districts, and 91 cities in Indonesia. The techniques used in this calculation are correlation analysis, cluster analysis, and discriminant analysis. Interesting findings is the indication of the digital divide between levels of local government and between the regions in Java islands with the regions outside of Java. Provincial governments, districts, and cities located outside the island of Java relatively have less information as well as services on their websites. Digital gap, in the respect of website features and the disclosure of financial information, require further study, particularly to identify the actual causal factors.