The Challenges of Digitalization for the Cooperation in West Coast Region of Aceh Province

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the challenges for implementation of digitalization for cooperatives in West coast of Aceh Province. The cooperatives are a business and social entity that it belongs to members of the cooperatives. The qualitative method is used for analysis the data. The primary data was collected by depth interview method and literature review. According a survey by Kompas in 2023, there is less than 1 percent of cooperatives has been digitalized by adopting information and technology system. The study will examine the five factors for implementation of digitalization namely human resource management, software resource, hardware resource, networking resource and data resources. Implementation of digitalization in the cooperative can lead a new technique of business such as digital marketing, digital payment, digital procurement and working from distance. This research will assist the policy makers to accelerate the digitalization in cooperative in West Coast Region of Aceh province.