Improving digital competitiveness: Key to Indonesia’s sustainability

Indonesia has a large population of over 280 million and a rapidly growing middle class. However, it faces numerous challenges in sustaining its economic growth and improving the living standards of its people. One crucial area where Indonesia needs to improve is its digital competitiveness.

How Fuse advances Indonesia’s insurance literacy by leveraging the digital ecosystem

Although many insurance firms exist in Indonesia, and efforts to increase insurance access and literacy have been on the rise, the penetration is still shallow. This became the underline for Andy Yeung to bring technology to transform the insurance sector.

Using drones, ARIA wants to change the ‘old face’ of the farming industry

Born into a family with a farming machinery business, William Sjaichudin has long been familiar with Indonesia’s farmers and agricultural dynamics since he was a kid. After graduating from Purdue University as a professional golfer, William returned home to help with the family business. He discovered that the Indonesian agriculture industry has yet to be transformed by technological advances like other industries.

How Desty elevates MSMEs to thrive in Indonesia’s growing commerce ecosystem

Mulyono Xu, a local Acehnese man, had spent most of his life in China since he started studying in China almost 20 years ago. His seasoned experience in e-commerce solutions in one of China’s giant tech marketplaces, Alibaba Group, gave him a ‘time-travel advantage’, a fresh perspective on what Indonesians need as the country’s digital ecosystem matures and the solution for it.

Pushing financial literacy after inclusion

Financial inclusion is crucial for any nation to accelerate economic growth by improving equal financial access and support for doing business, such as transactions, payments, savings, credit and insurance. Financial inclusion will foster entrepreneurship and scalability, which will lead to reducing poverty and economic inequality in the long term.

Digitalization is a new engine to boost the economy in Bali

Famously named the "Island of Paradise," Bali has relied on tourism to back its economy for decades. The travel and tourism sector has become the source of most Balinese people's livelihood. Therefore, the pandemic has brought extreme struggles for the province with a 4.3 million total population that relied heavily on the tourism economy.