ETHICS
THEFRAMEWORKDESIGNWITHININDONESIANCONTEXT
By Carlia Isnen
22109005
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of
ENGINEERING & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
In Partial Fulfilm ments
for the
MASTER’S DEGREE IN
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
SWISS GE
EduTown BSD City Tangerang 15339
Indonesia
FORINFORMATIONTECHNOLOGYPROFESSIONALS:
iwati
ent of the Require
RMAN UNIVERSITY
January 2014
I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and to the best of my knowledge, it contains no material previously published or written by another person, nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at any educational institution, except where due acknowledgement is made in the thesis.
Carlia Isneniwati Student
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Date Approved by:
Dr. Ir. Moh. A. Amin Soetomo, M. Sc.
Thesis Advisor
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Riri Satria, S.Kom., M.M.
Thesis Co-Advisor
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Dr. Ir. Gembong Baskoro, M. Sc.
Dean
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Date
ABSTRACT
ETHICS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS: THE FRAMEWORK DESIGN WITHIN INDONESIAN CONTEXT
By
Carlia Isneniwati Dr. Amin Soetomo, Advisor Riri Satria, S. Kom., M.M., Co-Advisor
SWISS GERMAN UNIVERSITY
IT professionals plays very important roles in supporting the use of T by people to improve their quality of life and productivity. On the other hand IT professionals also can contribute to problems for people as a result of misuse and misconduct of their knowledge and skills. This creates the need to have professional ethic for IT. This study asses the need for IT professionals ethics in Indonesia through literature study, comparative study and interpretive study. Subsequently this study proposes the framework for code of ethics based on comparative study with other professionals (non IT) in Indonesia and with IT professionals ethics in other countries. The findings of this study shows that the framework design for the IT professionals in Indonesia are consist of IT professional associations and IT users/beneficiaries that are influenced by tangible and intangible external factors.
Keywords: ethics, IT Professionals, code of ethics, interpretive, hermeneutics
Copyright Statement
© Copyright 2014 by Carlia Isneniwati
All rights reserved
DEDICATION
I dedicate this works to my lovely mother:
Mrs Emma R Djajadisastra to my beloved (late) husband:
Wisaksono
to my precious one and only daughter:
Kinanti Kanya Niramaya
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Allah SWT, God Almighty. Alhamdulillahi rabbil 'alamin.
Allahumma sholi ala sayyidina Muhammad wa'ala ali sayyidina Muhammad.
Foremost, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisors Dr. Ir. Moh. A.
Amin Soetomo, M.Sc. and Mr Riri Satria, S.Kom., M.M. for the continuous support of my study and research, for their patience, motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowledge. Their guidance helped me in all the time of research and writing of this thesis. I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Richardus Eko Indrajit, from the beginning, he had confidence in my abilities to complete a degree and achieve it with excellence.
Besides my advisors, I would like to thank to my best friends Mr Teddy Sukardi and Mr Didik Partono for their assistance, encouragement, insightful comments, and hard questions. My sincere thanks also goes to my IT community’s friends in Indonesia Mr Aswin Wirjadi, Ir. Djarot Subiantoro, Dr. Eko Budiardjo Dr. Rudi Lumanto, Bisyron Wahyudi M.TI., and to all my friends in IDSIRTII /CC for their support,
especially to Mizamil M.H. for enlightening me the first glance of research in ethics.
Last but not least, I would like to pay high regards to my beloved Mom, my lovely daughter Kanya, my sister Mia Midiani, my brother Atje Kostaman for their sincere spiritually support and inspiration throughout my research work lifting me uphill this phase of life and my gentle nephew Ghani Ruhman for the sleepless nights we were working together before deadlines.
I owe everything to them. Besides this, several people have knowingly and unknowingly helped me in the successful completion of this thesis.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT ... 3
Copyright Statement ... 4
DEDICATION ... 5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... 6
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... 7
LIST OF FIGURES ... 9
CHAPTER 1 - BACKGROUND ... 10
1.1. General Statement of Problem Area ... 10
1.2. Research Problem ... 13
1.3. Research Purpose ... 15
1.4. Significance of Study ... 15
1.5. Theoretical Perspective ... 15
1.5.1. Frame of Theory ... 15
1.6. Scope of Study ... 19
1.7. Research Questions ... 19
1.8. Methodology ... 19
CHAPTER 2 - LITERATUR REVIEW ... 21
2.1. Ethics ... 21
2.2. A Brief History of Computer Ethics ... 22
2.3. A new branch of ethics application ... 23
2.4. Exponential Growth ... 24
2.5. Computer ethics in the future? ... 24
2.6. Ethics in Information Technology ... 26
2.7. Regulation in Cyberspace ... 27
2.7.1. Rules / Code ... 27
2.7.2. The Value of a Space ... 28
2.7.3. Sovereignty of A Space ... 28
2.8. Economic Aggressive Disturbance ... 30
2.8.1. Spamming ... 30
2.8.2. Advertising, Promotion and Demand... 30
2.8.3. Secondary Use of Data ... 30
2.8.4. Serious plagiarism ... 31
2.8.5. Abuse of Intellectual Property Rights (Copyright Violation) ... 31
2.8.6. Hacking ... 31
3.1. Research Methodology ... 40
3.2. Hermeneutics ... 41
3.3. Interpretive Process ... 42
3.4. Triangularity ... 43
CHAPTER 4 – RESEARCH DESIGN AND EXPERIMENT ... 44
4.1. Research Design and Experiment ... 44
4.2. Interview and Focus Group Discussion Design and Experiment ... 45
4.2.1. Interview Design ... 45
4.2.2. Focus Group Discussion Design and Experiment ... 47
CHAPTER 5 – ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION ... 49
5.1. Focus Group Discussion ... 49
5.2. Summary ... 53
5.3. The First Draft of Framework of Ethics for IT Professionals in Indonesia ... 54
5.3.1. Values and Norms ... 55
5.3.2. Culture ... 56
5.3.3. IT Products and Services Users ... 56
5.3.4. Technology ... 57
5.3.5. Market ... 57
5.3.6. Government ... 57
5.4. Experts Judgement ... 57
5.4.1. Summary of Expert Judgment Panel and Suggestions... 59
5.4.2. Major Components for the formulation of IT Professional Ethics ... 60
CHAPTER 6 – CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION ... 62
6.1. Conclusion ... 62
6.1.1. The Need to Have IT Professional Ethics in Indonesia ... 62
6.1.2. The Existing Condition on IT Professional Ethics in Indonesia ... 62
6.1.3. Major Components of Ethics Framework for IT Professional in Indonesia ... 62
6.2. Recommendation ... 63
REFERENCES ... 64
APPENDICES ... 68
CURRICULUM VITAE ... 79
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: ID-SIRTII Incident Report ... 12
Figure 2: Literature Review Summary ... 39
Figure 3: Methodology Flow Diagram ... 40
Figure 4: Hermeneutics Process ... 42
Figure 5: Interpretive Process ... 42
Figure 6: Triangularity ... 43
Figure 7: Research Design ... 44
Figure 8: The First Draft ... 55
Figure 9: The Final Draft ... 59
