Indonesia technology snapshot: Q1 2025
March 2025 ● February 2025 ● January 2025
- Indonesian population (2023): 277.5 million
- Indonesian online population: 215.6M / 78.8%
- Indonesia’s median age: 31.5 years
CSIS: Indonesia’s Strategic Dependencies
Indonesia Snapshot: March 2025
- Indonesia: Bumame health-tech startup gains pre-A funding, backed by 500 Global, to develop platform delivering advanced diagnostics, proactive screenings, and personalized health plans / full item
Indonesia Startup Report 2025′ from Discovery/Shift: “Digital payments in 2024 recorded a total of 34.5 billion transactions, growing by 36.1% yoy…” / full item
- Indonesia: Oracle is in discussions with Indonesia’s government around establishing a cloud services center in Nongsa Digital Park, Batam Island / full item
KPMG Venture Pulse Q1 2025 – Asia findings
Indonesia Tech News: February 2025
- Indonesia: East Ventures VC unveils IndoBuild AI, a platform for Indonesia’s innovators to learn, collaborate, and solve real-world challenges / full item
- Indonesia: An interview look at Indonesian telecom giant, Indosat, and its moves into AI, LLMs and technology / full item
- Indonesia’s East Ventures and South Korea’s SV Investment partner for SE Asia-South Korea investment fund, targeting tech startups for Series A to B funding / full item
- YouGov survey finds 84% of Indonesian parents support government proposal to set minimum age for social media access to protect children / full item
- Indonesia is to construct 3 solar power plants in East Java, West Java, and West Sumatra, with a combined capacity of 220MWp, with Sumatra facility a floating solar power plant / full item
- An overview of Indonesia’s challenges in developing its electric vehicles-focused industries, in spite of the nation’s nickel supply chain prominence / full item
- UnionPay, Indonesia Payment System Association, Ant Group International, and Bank of China Hong Kong Jakarta Branch partner for cross-border QR code interconnectivity / full item
- Vietnam: Indonesia’s Indosat telecoms major targets Vietnam’s automated vehicles market, partnering Xanh SM for IoT infrastructure and smart mobility solutions / full item
- The global floating solar energy market is set to be dominated by the Asia-Pacific region, led by India, China, and Indonesia through to 2033 / full item
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tech news, Indonesia: January 2025
- Indonesia Battery Corp looks to Japanese and South Korean partnerships, alongside raw material suppliers in Australia and South America, in response to US China-related tariff concerns / full item
- Indonesia: Banyu seaweed firm secures $1.25M with tech-enabled platform helping communities and small farmers, further bolstering Indonesia as the world’s largest tropical seaweed supplier / full item
- Indonesia: Anti-monopoly watchdog, KPPU, imposed a fine of $13.1M on Google LLC, ordering the tech giant to cease mandatory use of Google Play Billing System / full item
- Indonesia launches IDXCarbon carbon exchange, trading 40,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent – CO2e – on the first day / full item
- Indonesia: New President plans to spend near $3BN through 2029 on continued construction of new capital city, Nusantara, aiming to relocate government there by 2028 / full item
- Indonesia: China’s BYD EV giant targets completion of $1BN plant in Indonesia by year-end, looking at annual production of 150,000 EV units / full item
- Indonesia: MAKA Motors EV firm launches its first locally-designed e-motorcycle, MAKA Cavalry, building on one of SE Asia’s largest seed rounds for a hardware startup / full item
- Indonesia is preparing regulations to establish a minimum age for social media users, in a similar move to that recently taken in Australia / full item
- Asosiasi Startup for Industry Indonesia (STARFINDO) inks MOU with global tech provider, Arrow Electronics, to lift Indonesian startup access to electronics and engineering expertise / full item
- Indonesia maintains iPhone 16 sales ban despite Apple agreement to build a $1BN manufacturing facility, basing decision on requirement that products must be at least 40% locally-made / full item
“…Indonesia’s collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is part of an effort to make the nation a center for digital transformation in ASEAN.” / full item
- Indonesia: Asian Development Bank and Climate Finance Partnership of Australia have each US$5M loan to PT TBS Energi Utama Tbk to boost e-motorcycle adoption / full item
- Indonesia: Bukalapak e-commerce major is to end sales of physical goods, instead selling virtual products like mobile credits and electricity tokens, in response to fierce competition / full item
- Indonesia: Taiwan Mobile and partners invested $3M in Indonesia’s Soul Parking, the country’s largest parking technology company / full item
- Thailand’s Techsauce media platform and Indonesia’s KUMPUL startup platform ink MOU to ‘foster cross-border startup collaboration and global innovation’, outlining 7 key activities / full item
- SEA’s cyber headaches: Malaysia emerged as the most targeted nation in Southeast Asia with 19,615,255 web-based threats… Indonesia was the second most affected, recording 3,204,294 threats. / full item
