Smart City Implementation: Integration of Villages and Cities in Purwakarta Regency, West Java Province

Abstract This study aims to analyze the implementation of Smart City that integrates villages and cities in Purwakarta Regency, identify and analyze any inhibiting factors that influence the development process of the City of Purwakarta towards the Smart City, identify and analyze the efforts of the Purwakarta Regency government in realizing Smart City. The research method used in this study is a qualitative research method with a descriptive approach.. The results showed that the smart city that was implemented in Purwakarta Regency focused more on the use of information technology to improve services to the community, meaning this concept was more accurately referred to as a digital city. Some programs that have been implemented by the Regional Government are the first steps to realize Purwakarta Regency as a smart city. Barriers and obstacles faced include: not yet comprehensive existing policies to accommodate the problems faced in the implementation of smart cities, ICT human resources are still limited both in quantity and quality, budget limitations cause the existing infrastructure is not optimal, especially in villages, interoperability is not optimal, and blueprint has not been prepared comprehensively. Efforts that have been made by the Purwakarta Regency government include: Several legal products both regent regulations and regent instructions have been issued to support the implementation of smart city, ICT competency enhancement, application interoperability in each OPD, budgeting for device maintenance, Budgeting for developing systems, and budgeting for improving the welfare of ICT employees. Keywords: Village and City Integration, Implementation of Smart City, Digital City, ICT Infrastructur