The frequency with which natural disasters strike Indonesia has inspired technology innovators to create new devices and applications to help minimise the casualties.
Digital Economy
At a recent marketing event in Jakarta’s hip Kebayoran Baru district, Indonesia’s finance ministry used celebrities, dance music and social media influencers to pump up interest in…
“What makes the fintech startups thrive is because the society is still easily tempted by offers of loans with less hassles,” OJK’s Tongam L. Tobing said.
In Southeast Asia, people are likely to use a digital service like Grab or Gojek to get a ride. In seconds, they can be matched with a driver. And millions more are on similar mobile apps as customers or partners for convenient services.
A report released in late May shows Indonesia jumping up the IMD World Competitiveness Ranking charts, now at 32 in the world. Read more
In a world less and less dependent on paper money, Bank Indonesia (BI) has developed a digital payment roadmap for 2025. Executive Read more
Indonesia’s vision is to become one of the world’s top five strongest economies by 2045 – one-hundred years after independence. Indonesia is Read more
Bukalapak plans to invest Rp 1 trillion (roughly AUD 100 million) in small to medium enterprises (SMEs, or usaha kecil menengah) that Read more
Countries of the Asia Pacific have joined together in a commitment to harness the potential of the Industrial Revolution 4.0. This commitment Read more
The 2018 International Monetary Fund (IMF)-World Bank Group Annual Meetings ran from 8 – 14 October in Nusa Dua, Bali, and was Read more
The Indonesian Central Statistics Agency (BPS) has recorded the country’s poverty rate at 9.82 percent as of March 2018, the lowest in Read more
Indonesia commemorated the National Cooperative Day on Thursday 12 July 2018. During his speech in Tangerang, President Joko Widodo urged Indonesian co-ops Read more
An interview with the Bukalapak CFO uncovers how the e-commerce marketplace grew from a small garage office to being Indonesia’s latest unicorn. Read more
Indonesia is preparing to face the Industrial Revolution 4.0, which revolves around digital economy. President Joko Widodo is optimistic that this is Read more
