A snapshot of Indonesia’s tech news headlines, articles, reports and downloads from August 2021
Indonesian tech news covered in August 2021 detailed developments including: Bukalapak e-commerce giant’s IPO; nationwide insurance-tech; Startup Indonesia’s Digital Lookbook; Indonesia’s moves into electric vehicles; and more. And don’t forget the Wild Digital Indonesia Conference in September.
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- Indonesia: Telkom Indonesia and UAE’s Etisalat telco reportedly planning a joint $100M data center facility in Nongsa Digital Park in Batam
- Grab super app in Indonesia gains $375M from Indonesia’s Emtek conglomerate to collaboratively scale ecosystems across logistics, ecommerce, financial services, advertising and more
- Wild Digital Indonesia 2021 Conference is just around the corner, set for 8 & 9 September – get 40% off a full-price ticket with Startup News Asia’s code
- Indonesia: Bukalapak e-commerce firm launches IPO on Indonesia Stock Exchange, targeting $1.5, the country’s largest IPO to date
- Indonesia: Just 2 months after Series A, Pintu crypto assets platform raises $35M Series A+, offering trades on 16 cryptocurrencies with plans to add more, including NFTs
- Indonesia: Fuse insuretech firm completes Series B, with agent-focused model featuring more than 30 partnerships, over 300 products and more than 50K agents
- Webinar: ‘Investing in the Indonesian Digital Economy’ set for August 31st, delivered by Singapore’s Business Times
- Indonesia: BRI Ventures to collaborate with School of Business and Management ITB to launch venture capital courses later this year
- Indonesia’s Traveloka, SE Asia’s largest online travel firm, planning to launch financial services in Thailand and Vietnam as it eyes a US listing via SPAC
- Indonesia: RaRa Delivery raises $3.25M with last-mile logistics focusing on 1-3-hour deliveries for ecommerce companies
- Download: Harnessing Digital Technologies for Inclusion in Indonesia, 2021 report from The World Bank
- Download: Realising the potential of Indonesia’s digital economy, from Deloitte “…digital economy poised to grow to size of about USD133M in the next 5 years…” (pdf)
- The Indonesia Digital LookBook: New Frontier of SEA Technology’, available now to download from Startup Indonesia
- Indonesia: “New banking rules…allow near-full foreign ownership of local lenders and reduce red tape for new services as regulators move to spur growth in…digital banking industry.”
- Indonesia: ‘Investments and foray into Electric Vehicles’ report available to download now, from DBS Bank Insights & Analysis
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