Jakarta, Indonesia – June 28, 2019 (travelindex.com) – The Indonesian government is working hard to make the country the largest digital economy in Southeast Asia. A key step in this direction is its participation in an event designed to create investment opportunities and strengthen Indonesia's digital ecosystem. As previously reported, the Indonesian pavilion at the Techsauce Global Summit 2019 in Bangkok is the result of a collaboration between the Ministry of Communications and Information and an online media portal. The event brought together 400 speakers, 1,000 startups, around 500 journalists, and over 500 investors from 40 countries. The Techsauce Global Summit 2019 is a major gathering for digital transformation, and participation offers Indonesian digital startups the opportunity to showcase themselves internationally. The Indonesian pavilion at the event is a strategic move to establish Indonesia as the leading digital economy nation in the ASEAN region.

The Indonesia pavilion showcased the new start-ups emerging in Indonesia, thus providing access to the Indonesian start-up ecosystem and the Indonesian government.

Furthermore, the focus was on attracting more investors and building strategic partnerships between Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries.

The Ministry of Communications and Information and the online media portal had an exhibition stand and two presentations by stakeholders from the Indonesian ecosystem.

The two discussion topics were “Evolution towards the new media age” and “Promotion of women in leadership positions in the technology sector”.

The first presentation focused on developments in the new media age, as well as forecasts and insights into the future of media in Southeast Asia.

The second discussion focused on access and opportunities for companies, as well as initiatives to overcome the gender gap. The promotion of women in leadership positions in the technology sector was also a key topic.

The exhibition presented a selection of start-ups that were among the most influential start-ups in the country.

A start-up is an integrated social trading platform with AI, supported by chatbots and special solutions to make chat easier for social media converts in sales.

Another start-up is a platform that connects offline service providers with online consumers through the possibilities of AI technology based on massive O2O consumer data.

Disaster information is updated in real time. In other news, an innovation from Indonesia recently won an award in the category "Ensuring an Integrated Approach in Public Institutions" at the 2019 United Nations Public Service Awards.

PetaBencana.id, from the National Disaster Management Agency, is a free web-based platform that creates spatial visualizations of disaster information in real time.

The platform uses social media and instant messaging during disaster events to capture and filter current conditions confirmed by residents in the vicinity of the disaster area.

The platform, formerly known as PetaJakarta.org, functioned well during a flood in Jakarta in 2017. At that time, it collected flood data and information in real time.

The impact of the disaster was immediately recorded, as thousands of users accessed the website and reported flooding events within less than 12 hours.

By providing reliable disaster information, it enables people to save themselves and to pass on this information to help others.

This innovation is aimed at the general public, particularly the lower middle class and population groups with limited access to facilities.