July, August & September 2023
Indonesia’s tech news in the third quarter of 2023 captured items including: Indonesian platforms and services delivering fisheries and farms management; the country’s moves to protect local digital sellers with legislation to manage non-Indonesian platforms; Indonesia’s national digital payments system allowing the unbanked to take part; and more.
For our other editions, you should take a look at Asia’s tech news, daily, delivered via social media channels, and our Indo-Pacific tech newsletters for a weekly update on the region’s tech news.
Hit the links below for each month’s headlines, or scroll for an all-in-one update on Indonesia’s technology news in Q3 2023:
September 2023 | August 2023 | July 2023
e-Conomy SEA 2023 – Indonesia country spotlight available
September 2023
KPMG Venture Pulse Q2 2023 Report – Asia findings
- Indonesia may curb TikTok Shop platform, with Minister raising domestic small business impacts arising from ‘monopolistic’ practices around payments, logistics and platform influence
- Indonesia: Gov’t in August announced 47 critical minerals designated for strategic industry development
- Indonesia has proposed a critical minerals trade deal under the US Inflation Reduction Act, positioning for ‘green subsidies’
Indonesia’s deputy trade minister:
“Social media and social commerce cannot be combined… Revisions to the trade regulations that are currently underway will firmly and explicitly ban this…”
“…TikTok has become the 3rd-largest e-commerce player in major markets in [SEA]… In response, Lazada plans to utilise a fresh injection of US$845 million…”
- Indonesia’s Bababos gains $3M seed with platform connecting small SME manufacturers with the raw material suppliers, streamlining supply chains and consolidating processes
- Indonesia: Koltiva secures 7-figure Series A with software-as-a-service for multinationals, providing seed-to-table traceability for food products
- Indonesia & social media transactions: “What the people are expecting is that the advancement of technology can create new economic potential, not kill existing economies…”
- Vietnam: Indonesia’s Gojek partners Selex Motors to pilot Selex Camel e-bikes across Gojek’s transport, food delivery and logistics services in Vietnam, seeing significant savings
e-Conomy Southeast Asia 2023 report – Google, Temasek, Bain and Co
August 2023
CSIS: Securing Indo-Pacific Semiconductor Supply Chains
- Australian gov’t sets $50M to back Indonesia’s clean-tech and renewables startups, building on $200M Australia-Indonesia Climate and Infrastructure Partnership
- Indonesia: A look at concerns around TikTok ‘Project S’, aiming to compete with Shein and Amazon but with TikTok selling only its own products
- Download: ‘Digital Trust Insights 2023 – The Southeast Asia Perspective’ from pwc, a survey of 122 business, tech & cybersec execs across Indonesia, Malaysia & Singapore
‘Social Media and the Fight For Political Influence in Southeast Asia – The use of digital communications platforms has transformed the region’s politics – both for good and for ill.’
- Indonesia: An intro to Rebricks, making construction bricks from single-use plastics
- Indonesia: Central bank adds QRIS Tuntas to nat’l payments system, enabling cash transfers, withdrawals and deposits, including users without bank accounts who rely on e-wallets
- Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia & Singapore advance with implementation of bilateral transactions via QR codes, with payments settled in local currencies
Indo-Pacific Tech News, September 2023 edition
July 2023
Indonesia: Project Garuda Digital Rupiah CBDC White Paper
‘Huzaifah saw how tech was disrupting sectors like commerce, financial services and media, but “fish farming practice never changed in the last 30 years. I found it quite ironic that many innovations are developed to solve issues for urban citizens, like online shopping and food deliveries, but the essential sectors, such as agriculture and aquaculture, see almost zero digital innovation.”’
Tech in Asia Conference 2023 – October 18-19, Jakarta
“The rules would be a direct hit to online players who are looking to grow their presence in Southeast Asia’s biggest digital market through cross-border e-commerce. The restrictions could mean that companies such as TikTok won’t be able to directly sell inexpensive goods made, for instance, in China, in their online marketplaces — a move aimed at protecting local Indonesian businesses.”
SharePass: Online digital security solution
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