Purpose - This research is aimed to investigate the impact of the Information and Communication Technology (hereinafter ICT) development index and ICT investment on Indonesian economic growth.
Research design, data and methodology - The data used consist of ICT development index, government expenditure on ICT sector, and economic growth from 33 provinces in Indonesia from 2012 to 2015. Based on the Networked Readiness Index published by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Indonesia was ranked 80th among 142 countries in 2012 and had climbed 64th in 2014. This indicates that the businesses in Indonesia have adopted ICTs to increase productivity and expand their activities. Panel data regression analysis is performed to reveal the change of the impact over time in each of the provinces.
Result - The ICT development index and government expenditure for ICT have a positive effect on the economic growth of all provinces, although the impact is different in each of the provinces. There is a digital gap between the provinces, especially the large digital gap occurring with DKI Jakarta. The provinces of Eastern Indonesia such as NTT and Papua are still relatively slow in development of ICT.
Conclusions - ICT development index and allocation of local government expenditure for ICT have significant effect on economic growth. ICT development index has a bigger role in increasing economic growth.

Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Lliterature Review
3. Methodology
    3.1. Data and Scope of Research
    3.2. Regression Analysis of Panel Data
    3.3. ICT Development Index
    3.4. Economic Growth
    3.5. Government Expenditure for ICT
4. Results
    4.1. ICT Development Index
    4.2. Development of Local GovernmentExpenditure for ICT
    4.3. The Impact of Development and LocalGovernment Expenditure for ICT onIndonesia Economic Growth
5. Discussion
6. Conclusions
References

• Neli AGUSTINA(Politeknik Statistika STIS)
• Setia PRAMANA(Politeknik Statistika STIS) Corresponding Author