ASIA/INDONESIA - The Church chooses new technologies: a management information system of the faithful

Bandung (Agenzia Fides) - New technologies can be a useful tool at the disposal of the Church. In this spirit, a Management Information System of the faithful was launched in the Diocese of Bandung, a city in the western part of Java island, and will have a real-time updated census of the baptized present in Indonesia and all data related to the local Church. The system monitors data regarding the parishes, priests and religious, laity, ecclesial movements, Catholic schools and institutions, and all the different ecclesial communities.
As Fides learns, it was the Bishop of Bandung, Antonio Subianto Bunjamin, who is also Secretary General of the Indonesian Bishops' Conference who thought of the idea: the system, built by a special team of computer scientists, will be extended to all dioceses in Indonesia by 2017.
Through a peripheral access, with "user name" and "password", every parish priest can periodically update the data on the faithful and on the situation of his Church. These updates are received automatically and in real time by the central system, which will update the overall figures, at the disposal of the bishops' conference.
In Bandung all parish priests have been equipped with a personal computer and have been trained to use the system. The Catholic University of Parahyangan, in Bandung, provides the server which stores and protects data. (PCP-PA) (Agenzia Fides 11/12/2015)

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