Society 5.0 Leading in the Borderless World

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Nowadays, with a face paced development of science and technology, we are surrounded by innovation in enabling technologies such as Artifi cial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT) and robotics. Many scientist and expert are concerned if someday this technology is no longer helping people but mutated into a technological monster. With that possibility of the technology take over humanity, Japanese government announced the term society 5.0. The concept of society 5.0 is presented by Japanese cabinet in January 2016 as a core concept for their basis of economic and policy management. It also aimed for the investment of the future of mankind. It is aimed to balance the technology with a human centred approach. A study has outlined how this human centred society is envisioned to be aligned with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG such as ending poverty through Ed-Tech (Education Technology) or through AgriTech (Shiroishi et al., 2018).

Indonesia as a country with the 4th largest population in the world has not yet fully aware with human centred approach for technologies. Yes, it is true that our younger generation, millennial and generation Z begin to develop and utilize IoT and AI. For instance, the development of e-Fisheries with an aim to help fi sherman automatically feeding their fi shes in due time with a sensory intelligence machine. However, the utilization of those technology is far more behind those in developed country. Indonesia is still on their 4.0 stage. While we are still in the beginning of 4.0, it is important to considered what we valued the most to prepare for 5.0 : our construction of spirituality and humanity.

As a country with fi ve major religion, and our fi rst Pancasila stated to “Believed in God”, the construction of spirituality is very important. Spirituality comes from within us that we have a higher calling to do what’s good, what’s moral, and what not from our belief system. By standing on these main principals of being a Moslem, we are keen on walking ahead to face the development of the technology without worry.

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