Digital Tools to Support PPP Projects in Indonesia

Abstract

Objective: The Industrial Revolution 4.0 and the digital economy are challenges for Indonesia’s economy, particularly for 2020-2024. This Industrial Revolution has given challenges and opportunities to the onward economic development. Public Private Partnership (PPP) is a potential scheme for infrastructure development in Indonesia. The implementation of PPP in Indonesia is still a challenge, and the process has consumed time and complexity, which needs a solution to accelerate the development by using information technology as digital tools in PPP.   Method: This article uses a normative juridical approach, namely research that performs data processing, which essentially means an activity to analyze written legal materials. This research method refers to legal norms contained in laws and regulations as well as applicable legal norms, and the aim is to produce a PPP regulatory model in dealing with the era of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Society 5.0.  Data collection techniques through Focus Group Discussions are carried out by inviting stakeholders of PPP in Indonesia, primarily to obtain information on the urgency of using information technology in the PPP process in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research has novelties, including using information technology as a digital tool in the PPP process that can be applied to the PPP stages.   Result: The contribution of this study provides for the PPP regulatory model using information technology as one of the characteristics of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Society 5.0, as well as the form of mapping the PPP process that can be used through information technology.   Conclusion: The results of this study are expected to be an input for the Indonesian government,  especially the Secretariat of the Indonesian PPP unit, to create an integrated system by using information technology to support the PPP Project in Indonesia. Establishing a PPP information technology system must also be based on regulations in Indonesia and follow the regulation model that the government should regulate the use of information technology in the PPP Regulation. Information technology use in Indonesia's PPP process starts from the planning stage to the agreement's implementation.