In the last twenty years, the Indonesian government and democracy activists have adopted various democratic values in government practices, including the use of digital technology in strengthening democracy resilience, by increasing public participation in government management. From the central government to local governments, they have built applications to make it easier for people to interact with the government. This article will discuss the arguments of scholars when they evaluated the use of digital technology in Indonesia, the level of democracy, the sources, and what scholars need to do. This article was written by discussing various literature from recent researches and using critical analysis to build a new perspective. The results show that many scholars claim that democracy in Indonesia is not working as they hope, including the weak of accessing digital technology in participation. They put Indonesia in a low level of democracy rank. So, is digital technology suitable for Indonesian democracy? The low level of democracy and the low benefits from adopting certain democratic concepts might be caused by mistakes in how they view Indonesia. They use variables and concepts which came from other countries or other societies. This article offers a contextual perspective on how we view Indonesian democracy. We call it as MacGyvering Democratization. A concept for viewing context. From the perspective, we can answer the question, is digital technology suitable for Indonesian democracy?. That will help more for improving democracy in Indonesia. That is fairer.

The achievement of information technology has influenced various aspects of life, including democratic life. Many governments have developed electronic government (e-government) to create better governance, to increase democratization. Quickly, egovernment is believed to be the best way and then became a program in many countries. Some international and national institutions address this phenomenon by making an assessing or indexing of the achievements of e-government, such as the UN releasing The E-Government Index (EGI), e-Governance Academy Foundation releasing The National Cyber Security Index (NCSI), the Open Knowledge Foundation releasing The Global Open Data Index (GODI), and even some countries assess the implementation of egovernment at every level of government, such as for example Indonesia with the Indonesian E-Government Rating (PeGI). This paper discusses the focus and method of these indexes. By identifying and analyzing their reports and websites, this paper looks for differences and builds the categorization of these indexes. This paper categorizes indices into three categories: the managerial indices, the human resources indices, and the democratic indices.