Towards Confirming an Information Assurance Framework for eGovernment in Indonesia

Abstract

Electronic government (eGovernment) goals are improving the availability and quality of services that can be accessed regardless of time and place to improve government services to the public. In order to achieve this, the implementation of information assurance (IA) which its purpose is to ensure business continuity in the event of an incident is essentially required. In Indonesia, the implementation of eGovernment is still in the early stage. Moreover, there is no study so far that has focused on IA for eGovernment in Indonesia. Thus, research on a framework of IA is needed to support the implementation of eGovernment in Indonesia. The aim of this research is to develop an IA framework for eGovernment within the Indonesian context. The framework was developed by identifying factors from IA international standards for organisations, academic literature, and challenges. This research proposes an IA framework, which is expected to assist eGovernment implementation in Indonesia. The framework had been confirmed by surveying practitioners in the field of IA, eGovernment, and information security from various institutions in Indonesia. The finding showed that all the proposed factors in the framework are statistically significant. For future work, the framework will be validated using by developing a measurement instrument and conducting case studies.