Indonesia’s Rumah Pendidikan Wins UN’s Global e‑Government Award

RRI.CO.ID, Jakarta - The Rumah Pendidikan superapp, developed by the Ministry of Elementary and Secondary Education (Kemendikdasmen), continues to drive the digital transformation of national education.

The platform has integrated 66 educational services, is used by more than 6.9 million users, provides 4,843 free learning resources, and supports the competency development of over 104,000 teachers in frontier, outermost, and disadvantaged (3T) regions.

For these achievements, the superapp was named winner of the Action Line C7: e‑Government category at the 2026 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes, organized by the United Nations through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Rumah Pendidikan is the first Indonesian digital innovation to win the top e‑Government award since the WSIS Prizes were launched in 2012, outperforming 1,596 digital innovations from 122 countries.

Secretary General of the Ministry of Elementary and Secondary Education, Suharti, representing Minister Abdul Mu’ti, said the award is a tribute to Indonesia’s entire education ecosystem.

“We dedicate this award to the millions of students, teachers, education personnel, parents, and education professionals in Indonesia who maintain the spirit of learning across the country every day,” Suharti said while accepting the award in Geneva on Thursday, July 9, 2026, as quoted by infopublik.id.

Suharti explained that Rumah Pendidikan was developed to address the challenge of equitable distribution of education services in Indonesia, an archipelagic nation.

The platform connects teachers, students, parents, schools, and education partners within a single accessible digital ecosystem.

She emphasized that technology is being used to expand access to education while strengthening teachers' roles in the learning process, not replacing them. “Technology is one solution to reducing the gap in education services. However, technology is not here to replace teachers, but rather to empower them as the center of learning,” she said.

Minister Abdul Mu’ti described the award as an important milestone for Indonesia’s digital education transformation.

Meanwhile, Deputy Permanent Representative of Indonesia to the UN in Geneva, Achsanul Habib, said the success of Rumah Pendidikan demonstrates that Indonesian digital innovation can compete globally while strengthening efforts to improve the quality of national education. ***