International Journal of Kybernology ISSN : 2087-3107 Volume 4 , Number 1, June 2019: 1 - 10 DOI : 10.33701/ijok.v4i1.639 Submit: March 14th, Accepted: April 10th, Published: June 10th 1 Smart City Implementation: Integration of Villages and Cities in Purwakarta Regency, West Java Province Etin Indrayani and Gatiningsih Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri, Jatinangor, Sumedang Email: etin.indrayani@ipdn.ac.id ABSTRACT This study aims to analyze the implementation of Smart City that integrates villages and cities in Purwakarta Regency, identify and analyze any inhibiting factors that influence the development process of the City of Purwakarta towards the Smart City, identify and analyze the efforts of the Purwakarta Regency government in realizing Smart City. The research method used in this study is a qualitative research method with a descriptive approach.. The results showed that the smart city that was implemented in Purwakarta Regency focused more on the use of information technology to improve services to the community, meaning this concept was more accurately referred to as a digital city. Some programs that have been implemented by the Regional Government are the first steps to realize Purwakarta Regency as a smart city. Barriers and obstacles faced include: not yet comprehensive existing policies to accommodate the problems faced in the implementation of smart cities, ICT human resources are still limited both in quantity and quality, budget limitations cause the existing infrastructure is not optimal, especially in villages, interoperability is not optimal, and blueprint has not been prepared comprehensively. Efforts that have been made by the Purwakarta Regency government include: Several legal products both regent regulations and regent instructions have been issued to support the implementation of smart city, ICT competency enhancement, application interoperability in each OPD, budgeting for device maintenance, Budgeting for developing systems, and budgeting for improving the welfare of ICT employees. Key words: Village and City Integration, Implementation of Smart City, Digital City, ICT Infrastructure INTRODUCTION Urbanization that continues to occur in cities causes a decline in the city's performance. Various city problems arise along with the rapid urbanization. Urbanization which is marked by a growing population density makes the city must be ready to face problems due to high population density. The problem of scarcity of resources, the emergence of slums, the problem of waste and pollution, traffic congestion, environmental degra-dation, are some of the physical problems the city has caused. The problems of the city are also not only in physical terms, in line with the continued decline in physical quality of the city, the inability of a city to improve conditions will create public mistrust of the government which will trigger social problems. These social problems related to various stake-holders, not only can be resolved by the local government itself, but in its solution requires the role of various parties, so it is increasingly compli-cated to be solved. The emergence of physical problems and coupled with social problems makes the city more uncomfortable to live in. In solving the problems of the city, and maintaining its performance, various concepts of development and management of the city continue to be developed by academics and practitioners. Various concepts that emerge continue to be developed to obtain the right formulation of the concepts of development and management of cities that can provide comfort for its residents and can continue to be sustainable. The concepts that em-erge can be the concept of urban development as a whole, and the concepts emerge based on the priority of certain problems, such as the emergence of the concept of green city which prioritizes the existence of green open space which is closely re-lated to the problem of environmental degradation ((Indrayani, 2018). Along with the progress of the times, technological advances have also inevitably become a breakthrough used by the city to provide maximum service to its inhabitants. So that the concept of Intelligent City, Ubiquitous City, Digital City, Wired City, Information City, and Smart City emerged, these concepts develop by basing the application of information and commu-nication technology in managing cities. From some literature, it can be seen that the concept of Smart City is the end of the development of the concept of development and management of cities based on information and communication technology (Deakin and Allwinkle, 2007). In the definition of Nijkamp et al. in Chaffers et al (2011), Smart City is defined as a city that is able to use HR, social capital and modern telecommunications