SBY issues grim wanting on digital revolution
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Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono says the digital revolution could be a threat to national unity and even world security.
He told an audience - including Microsoft chairman Bill Gates - that information technology posed formidable challenges as well as great opportunities for developing countries like Indonesia.
President Yudhoyono says says there is a real danger that the world's poor will be virtually excluded from the emerging knowledge-based global economy, with dire consequences to global peace and security.
He said the world's most populous Muslim country was rolling out digital technologies as fast as it could but there were still millions of people in the vast archipelago who had no access to computers or the Internet.
