Undoubtedly, women is more likely using the Internet more often than anyone along with the progress and development of technology for accessing the Internet in Indonesia. As to support and encourage the women in Indonesia to use the internet, PT XL Axiata Indonesia as the second largest telecommunications operator in Indonesia recently released a new application called “Sisternet“. This new app is also a social movement that aims to bring the internet more closer to Indonesian women. Through “Sisternet”, women who joined this social movement, can share their experiences using the Internet and how to use it, via special roadshow by XL through three major cities in Indonesia, such as Jakarta, Bandung, and Surabaya. Moreover, “Sisternet” is also available as application and website which can be accessed via desktop and mobile, to facilitate the major needs of women, such as health tips, career, lifestyle information, information about family life, shopping, beauty, and so forth.
The grand launching event of “Sisternet” was attended by a number of outstanding of leaders, among others are Ainun Chomsun who is the originator of Penggagas Gerakan Akademi Berbagi, Dian Pelangi who is a designer, Dr. Suryani Sidik Motik who is the Chairman of Himpunan Pengusaha Primbumi Indonesia, and last but not least there is also President and CEO of XL, Dian Siswarini. Through this special event, she mentioned that she created this movement because based on research, women are more disadvantaged in terms of the using advanced technology. Women are relatively less in reaching the information. This is happened because women are not optimal knowledge in using the Internet, including mobile internet to support their daily lives. Through this service, women in Indonesia is expected to be more advanced and developed through the use of the Internet with applications available from the “Sisternet” in the future.
Furthermore, the “Sisternet” application also provides special features, such as discussion board or forums in which you can get a variety of topics to talk about such as trade, traveling, clothing, shopping, and many other things. Here you can also ‘chipped’ or discuss and share your or gain knowledge and experiences the topics that you are interested. For those of you who are interested in this XL application services, you can enjoy this service for free as to access the non-premium services. That will include free articles, games, access to the forum, and calendar to your monthly cycle. While for the premium services, customer will be charged for subscription of IDR 5.000 per month, this cost does not include internet access subscriptions. For those of you who would like to download, the “Sisternet” applications by XL can be obtained by downloading via Google Play Store and also GudangApp via www.gudangapp.com. While the “Sisternet” very own website can be accessed at www.sisternet.co.id. For more information about the application and its social movement, feel free to visit the official site of XL here.