Here are the 11 startups currently inside Telkom Indonesia’s DDB Accelerator

Indonesia’s telcos have been increasingly active in the tech startup scene recently. Earlier this week, Telkom Indonesia announced as part of its Indigo Apprentice Awards the first batch of local startups to enter its DDB Accelerator.

The accelerator is a relatively new initiative from Telkom, although it has taken three months since its inception to alert the public about this first cohort. In the past, Telkom has spearheaded a number of similar programs, including the Indigo Incubators in Yogyakarta and Bandung, which are also geared toward early stage startups. Some of the startups in this batch are coming straight from Indigo Incubator, while others were curated from the bootstrapping public and from within Telkom (Hint: Most of Telkom’s own startups in the batch begin with the letter “U”). In no particular order, here are the 11 companies that are currently in Telkom Indonesia’s DDB Accelerator.

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1. Qbaca

Qbaca is an ereader app currently available on Google Play and iOS. This application is similar to Wayang Force or Scoop in Indonesia, as users can purchase ebooks directly, and payments can be made via carrier billing or with Tekom’s custom epayments solution T-Money.

2. Q-Journal

Q-Journal is a website that supplies Indonesia’s collegiate and academic journals to the public in digital form. The site offers two types of academic journals, the free ones – which are more basic and cover topics at a bachelor degree level – and the paid ones that contain information from higher levels of academia. Currently, Q-Journal claims to aggregate works from more than 200 colleges throughout the archipelago

3. Jarvis Store