Young people account for 25% of South Sulawesi’s population, including in rural areas that are experiencing major agrarian change. As the landscape around them changes, so do their opportunities – rural youth unemployment is as high as 10% in the province.
Digital Economy
I met some close friends for dinner last night. Maybe they were also feeling the year-end travel itch, because it wasn’t long before we found ourselves reminiscing about our holiday trip to Bali last year.
Podcast: Ben Bland, the Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the Lowy Institute, sits down with Chatib Basri to discuss Indonesia’s struggle with COVID-19 and the way forward after Southeast Asia’s biggest economy slid into its first recession since the Asian Financial Crisis.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo expressed appreciation to the innovators and founders of the country’s financial technology industry as they have made a positive contribution to the national economy and increase the people’s access to financial services.
An Indonesian journalist started a campaign to provide mobile phones for underprivileged students, many of whom were still not allowed to do face-to-face learning because of covid, when the new school year started in July.
According to McKinsey, Indonesia has the potential to increase its economic productivity through digitization by US$121 billion by 2025.
The UGM Chancellor revealed that this assistance of PCR reagents is extremely needed to examine the data collection and mapping of patients infected with Covid.
Jakarta and Canberra reasserted their commitment to bolstering their bilateral partnership during the seventh Indonesia-Australia Ministerial Council Meeting on Law and Security Read more
Aspiring robotics specialists win Indonesian university competition, adapt to covid restrictions.
Indonesia has an issue as far as meeting the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution go. The quickly evolving landscape and potential demands on the country’s workforce is shaping into a real concern.
A look at some of the challenges that startups in the online education sector will need to overcome, as well as the solutions that some companies are employing.
After Commission I of the RI House of Representatives released the Job Creation Bill, some contents of the bill comprised several different procurements from Law Number 13 of 2013 concerning Manpower.
Economists and activists are urging Indonesia not to overlook climate change in its poverty reduction efforts amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as looming climate crises could exacerbate poverty in the long run.
Indonesian national and city governments have rushed to enrol more entrepreneurs in the course, to prepare them to succeed in online markets.
With “few players and plenty of potential”, EdTech companies could expand to a wider market, including vocational training and the digitization of schools.
Dedicated to narrowing the digital divide, the satellite will provide free broadband internet to 150,000 public facilities in some of the least developed regions of Indonesia.
