2.4 E-Business supports for Indonesian SMEs
Indeed, low ranking of Indonesian NRI by the World Economic Forum and INSEAD [13] has also prompted
Indonesian government and citizen to recognize the fretting condition of Indonesian e-Readiness. The assessment of
the report have indicated that Indonesia is still lagging behind in term of e-Readiness such as: (1) lacks of policies
and regulatory on software protection and business development, regulation on facilitating PC penetration and
support ICT (2) poor telecommunication infrastructure in mobile network coverage, Internet bandwidth and secure
Internet server (3) low affordability of Internet access through fixed Internet broadband or telephone mob ile line (4)
limited in ICT experts and skills (5) low numbers of Individual, Business and Government participation on ICT
diffusion and penetration. According to Julta et al. [36], government plays a major role to assist ICT diffusion,
where government programs and efforts in partnering with SMEs could boost SMEs development in digital
economy (e-Business). Moreover, government support could also enhance SMEs knowledge in e -Business by
providing funding for e-Business research centres and facilitating e-Business adoption for SMEs through seminars
and workshop (Julta et al., [36]).