Key Indonesia Startup News This Week – 23 Jun

Here you can find some interesting startup news around Indonesia, not only in its capital, Jakarta, but also other their tech startup hubs such as Yogyakarta, Medan, Surabaya, and many more. These listed news are taken from our partner, DailySocial, a leading blog on Indonesia’s tech startup.

(1) As part of IDBYTE‘s series of events, and supported by Qualcomm and HTC, organizer will held Android Mobile Application Development Competition for Android OS 2.2 (Froyo) based application and have not been published in Android Market.

(2) After the biggest e-commerce in Japan, Rakuten, launched Rakuten Belanja Online, other e-commerce companies join the competition and this time we are going to talk about DuniaVirtual.com.

(3) Indonesian startups looking for possible investment opportunities now have another option to which they can pitch their ideas. Bakrie Telecom yesterday launched Nusantara Incubation Fund to invest in new companies who operate web and mobile services and apps as well as next generation media.

(4) GEPI has been partnering with HIPMI (Indonesian Young Entrepreneur Association), Sampoerna Foundation’s Mekar.Biz program, and New Ventures Indonesia – an investment fund focusing on environment, and numerous government organizations in order to help Indonesian entrepreneurs get off their feet.

(5) Through an email, oDesk announced that it now provides a facility for Indonesian job seekers and providers to join and be active in oDesk’s Indonesian Forum.

(6) As a growing industry, and considering the size of mobile/internet market in Indonesia, we really shouldn’t think twice to invest in Indonesia’s mobile business. The market is huge, and there’s always empty slots for new products or internet based mobile service to fill.

(7) Telkom has allocated IDR 32 billion as the appreciation program for individuals or groups whom regarded have made creative digital work and provide value for society and encourage the growth of digital startup in the country.

(8) Nevertheless, there is no Indonesian developer who can achieve 1 million downloads or even more, while its stated that there’s more than 5 million downloads per day at Ovi Store, which from the total Ovi Store visitors, 80% can be converted into downloads.

(9) At Bubu Awards there’s a special category for startups called Marketing Plan Competition organized with Nusantara Ventures. In this competition startups can send their marketing plan to market their product and service, and they will face a panel of highly competent judges.

(10) Distimo‘s publication on iPhone apps market in Asia, including Indonesia, shows surprising result. Indonesian users are considered to be the largest numbers who buy apps on iPhone.

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