Prelude: Dg sistem semi federal (otonomi) di India sejak kemerdekaannya, telah memungkinkah masyarakat di daerah (propinsi) memiliki sense of belonging tinggi pada masing2 daerahnya. pada gilirannya sense of belonging ini menggiring tiap2 daerah untuk berlomba2 memajukan daerahnya masing2: dari pejabat (gubernur, bupati, camat,dll) sampai pengusaha dan orang2 cerdasnya.
setiap kali saya bertemu dg orang2 di luar ibu kota, mereka selalu merasa bangga dg daerah masing2 dan bangga dg kemajuan yg dicapai daerahnya yg tak jarang melebihi kemajuan yg dicapai ibukota. ini berbeda, misalnya, dg di kita. karena ekonomi yg numpuk di jakarta, orang daerah merasa 'kurang pede' setiap ketemu orang jakarta. org daerah selalu merasa kelompok marjinal kalau belum bisa ngomong 'elo-gue' dll. saat ini, otonomi daerah sudah mulai. pilkada sebagai hallmarknya. pertama yg harus dilakukan pemerintah daerah terpilih nantinya adalah menentukan dan memfokuskan visi ekonomi masa depan yg khas daerah tsb. bila setiap daerah memiliki visi ekonomi dan pembangunan yg jelas, kita akan menjadi seperti india di mana anak daerah tak ingin pergi ke ibukota hanya untuk peningkatan upah dan perbaikan nasib serta kekerenan budaya. selain kita, nantinya kita akan mengenal Bandung sebagai PUSAT INFOTECH, surabaya dan medan sebagai pusat bisnis, jakarta sebagai ibukota, riau sebagai pusat lintas perdagangan laut, dll. seperti halnya India, di mana Bangalore dikenal sebagai pusat IT dg penghasilan milyaran dolar pertahun, Chennai (madras) sebagai pusat industri mobil, Kairala sebagai pusat pendidikan, dll. salam, rozi India IT hub exports up 52% amid growing pains REUTERS[ FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2005 09:42:55 AM] BANGALORE: Software and back-office service exports from Indian technology hub Bangalore grew by half to more than $6 billion in the year to March despite lingering worries about its overloaded transport system. The region, weathering last year's U.S. election rhetoric against outsourcing, also added 198 new service firms, taking the total number of exporters to 1,520, officials said on Thursday. Bangalore made up for 97 percent of the southern state of Karnataka's information technology and allied service exports, which grew to 276 billion rupees ($6.3 billion) in 2004/05, up from 181 billion a year earlier. "The campaign against Bangalore has fallen flat. The infrastructure of the city, though it is under stress, is being developed continuously," Jawaid Akhtar, IT director for the state dubbed India's Silicon Valley, told a news conference. The city of 6.5 million people, bursting with new vehicles and immigrants, is set to start building an underground railway system and an international airport this year. Bangalore has the biggest share of India's IT and back-office service exports, which are estimated to have grown 35 percent to $17.3 billion in the year to March. The industry, fed by a huge low-cost, English-speaking workforce, employs more than 1 million people. Karnataka is home to 300,000 of them, and companies starting last year planned some 50,000 new jobs, officials said. Among them were Internet firms Google and Amazon and consulting firm Capgemini. IT secretary Shankaralinge Gowda expected Karnataka's exports to touch $8 billion in 2005/06, representing 27 percent growth. "We were surprised by 52 percent. Talent pool availability is the key driver of growth," Gowda said. Karnataka is promoting the palace town of Mysore and the port city of Mangalore as new IT centres. The two now make up for the remaining 3 percent of the state's service exports. BV Naidu, Bangalore director of Software Technology Parks of India, saw increased numbers of foreign companies signing up with it after a slowdown during the U.S. presidential election. Some 206 IT firms, 129 of them foreign, registered with STPI in 2004/05. 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