Government Public Relations Must Be Ready to Welcome the Industrial Revolution 4.0

BANDUNG (26 August 2020) - Entering the era of the industrial revolution 4.0, the development of information technology is so fast that it has an impact on the ease of public access to information.

People's demands for information that are fast, precise, and correct have become indispensable where information and communication now knows no boundaries of space and time.

To equip public relations officers in their work units, the Agency for Education, Education, Research and Social Counseling (BP3S) held a Public Relations Workshop in the BP3S environment.

Head of BP3S Syahabuddin in his direction said that Government Public Relations is currently required to change the mindset, namely from Government Public Relations which was previously conventional to Government Public Relations in the Industrial Revolution Era 4.0.

"Currently, the government's public relations role is very strategic in the midst of the development of information technology that continues to change so rapidly," said Syahabuddin in the Public Relations Workshop. Wednesday 26/08/2020.

Syahabduddin hopes that all participants who are also PR implementers in the BP3S environment can take part in this event seriously and can implement information management and public communication well in their respective work areas.

On the same occasion, the Head of the Legal Public Relations Organization Section of the BP3S Secretariat, Indro Widi Handoko, stated in his report that it was as regulated in Law Number 14 of 2008 on Public Information Disclosure and its Implementing Regulations.

Indro explained that the purpose of holding this workshop was one of the Government's efforts to improve public information and communication management services by Information Management and Documentation Officers (PPID) and Public Relations implementers within BP3S.

Also present on this occasion were the Secretary of BP3S Harapan Lumban Gaol, as for the resource persons who were presented from the Ministry of State Secretariat and from public relations practitioners.