📌 MAROKO133 Breaking startup: IFRF rallies food-resilience leadership 🍚. Quantum-s
Dears subscriber,
Indonesia is moving fast this week—across food resilience, digital innovation, and cybersecurity. IFRF 2025 brought together agri leaders to accelerate collaboration, backed by insights from the new report Food Resilience Through Innovation and Technology. Major tech moves are also underway with StarHub–NeutraDC advancing quantum-safe connectivity, and PLN Indonesia Power–Huawei launching AI-powered power-plant digitalization. Meanwhile, Indonesia’s AI scene shows big room for growth, and OJK reports lost to online-transaction fraud, highlighting the urgency for stronger digital safeguards. The opportunities are wide open—and now is the time to build boldly.
Stay ahead,
DailySocial Team
🚨 What’s New
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IFRF 2025: Uniting Innovation and Collaboration for Indonesia’s Food Future — The IFRF 2025 forum brought together more than 200 policymakers, investors, agritech founders, and industry leaders to align strategies for strengthening Indonesia’s national food resilience. The event underscored that food security is not only a sustainability goal but also a major economic opportunity. The forum underlined findings from the report “Food Resilience through Innovation & Technology” — including Indonesia’s agricultural-food sector value (USD 43.9 billion in 2024, projected to reach USD 56.3 billion by 2033), and the untapped potential in circular-economy models for food waste.
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StarHub partners NeutraDC for Quantum-Safe Connectivity in Southeast Asia — StarHub and NeutraDC (the data-center arm of Telkom Indonesia) signed an MoU to deploy quantum-safe encryption and low-latency inter-data-center connectivity. The partnership aims to provide enterprises in Indonesia and Singapore with secure, high-performance data exchange via next-generation network infrastructure — future-proofing against evolving cyber threats.
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PLN Indonesia Power and Huawei kick off a new era of AI-driven power-plant digitalization — PLN IP signed a Joint Study Agreement with Huawei to apply artificial intelligence for “smart inspection,” digital HSSE (Health, Safety, Security, Environment), cybersecurity, and IT integration at power plants. The pilot project at PLTU Banten 3 Lontar is designed to improve operational efficiency, safety, and support Indonesia’s energy transition — marking a major step towards “intelligent,” more sustainable electricity generation.
👏 What’s Exciting
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Indonesia Has Only 25 AI Startups vs. 300+ in Singapore — Opportunity Ahead
Recent insights into the regional technology landscape reveal a significant gap between Indonesia’s and Singapore’s AI startup ecosystems: Indonesia currently hosts around 25 AI startups, while Singapore has surpassed 300. Industry leaders argue that this gap is not a weakness but a vast growth opportunity, especially given Indonesia’s large population, expanding digital economy, and increasing institutional interest in AI adoption across agriculture, finance, logistics, and public services.
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OJK Reports IDR 111 Trillion in Losses from Transaction-Fraud Scams
The Indonesian Financial Services Authority (OJK) issued a warning regarding the sharp rise in e-commerce and digital-payment fraud, particularly transaction-manipulation scams, which have generated estimated losses of IDR 111 trillion nationwide. These tactics often exploit social-engineering techniques to deceive consumers into unauthorized payments. OJK urged banks, e-commerce platforms, and fintech players to strengthen cybersecurity and user-education programs, highlighting the urgent need for robust fraud-prevention frameworks to protect the public in an increasingly digital economy.
🚀 What’s Next:
Strengthening Indonesia’s Food Future Through Innovation & Collaboration
Indonesia is entering a pivotal moment in building long-term food resilience, driven by urgent structural challenges such as fragmented smallholder systems, climate pressure, and supply chain inefficiencies. The report “Food Resilience Through Innovation and Technology: Pathways for a Nourished Future – Case Study: Indonesia” highlights Indonesia’s critical journey toward long-term food sovereignty. To secure food sovereignty and economic stability, the nation must modernize agricultural production through technology, data, and sustainable practices. The government’s national vision under Indonesia Emas 2045 prioritizes reducing import dependency, strengthening farmer welfare, and enhancing infrastructure for irrigation, logistics, and research.
The momentum is strengthened by an expanding agritech ecosystem of more than 276 startups delivering real impact—from precision farming and agri-fintech to circular economy models and AI-driven analytics. Case studies such as Agrari’s yield-doub…
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📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif startup: Green pilots & capitals emerge 🌱. Komdigi tight
Dear subscribers,
This week’s roundup brings a wave of momentum across Southeast Asia’s tech and innovation landscape. From fresh climate-tech funding in Indonesia and Vietnam, to QRIS preparing cross-border expansion, and regulators tightening digital compliance, the region is buzzing with activity. Southeast Asia is entering 2025 with stronger infrastructure, sharper innovation, and growing global relevance.
We are also excited to invite you to an exclusive event: Indonesia Food Resilience Forum 2025. This forum will bring together key stakeholders to discuss innovative steps towards a sustainable food future for Indonesia.
Secure your spot at this strategic discussion by registering here: https://luma.com/75o04yki.
Best regards,
The DailySocial Team
🚨 What’s New
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The Indonesian-Australian partnership KINETIK announced that five climate-tech startups from its KINETIK NEX programme have been awarded pilot‐funding after pitching at the [RE]Spark 2025 festival in Jakarta. KINETIK The winners, ranging from inclusive electric-mobility and solar water systems to solar-powered sago processing in remote Papua, will implement their innovations using a pooled fund of approximately IDR 1.6 billion. KINETIK The initiative underlines the focus on locally led green innovation across Indonesia’s diverse geographies.
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Vietnamese VC firm Touchstone Partners has launched a US $10 million “Green Transition Fund” targeting early-stage climate tech startups throughout Southeast Asia. The fund exemplifies the region’s growing appetite for sustainability-driven venture capital and aligns with global net-zero ambitions. Deployment is anticipated to begin in December 2025.
👏 What’s Exciting
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Indonesia’s digital payments system, the QRIS (Quick Response Code Indonesia Standard), is set to expand cross-border into China and South Korea by 2026, according to Bank Indonesia. This move signals a major shift toward integrated regional payment infrastructure, enabling Indonesian consumers and merchants to transact seamlessly abroad.
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The Indonesian regulatory authority Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital (Komdigi) has threatened to block services such as ChatGPT and Cloudflare, Inc. for failing to register as private electronic system providers (PSE) under national law. The notification issued covers 25 organisations, signalling heightened digital-sovereignty enforcement in Indonesia’s tech ecosystem. Non-registration could lead to service termination, putting major global platforms on notice.
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Logistics player J&T Express reported a record surge in parcel volumes during the year-end peak season: +78 % year-on-year in Southeast Asia and +83 % in new markets. The boom underscores sustained e-commerce momentum and logistical scaling across the region. Riders, fulfilment centres and tech infrastructure are all under pressure as growth accelerates.
Fazpass is positioning its Intelligent Authentication (FIA) as the future of OTP verification by addressing core business challenges with a shift to a Monthly Active User (MAU) pricing model. This approach offers companies predictable costs with unlimited OTPs, moving away from the variable, per-message charges of traditional vendors. Coupled with AI-driven authentication designed to improve success rates and reduce user friction, Fazpass aims to provide a more scalable, secure, and cost-effective verification solution for businesses in 2026 and beyond.For more capability information: https://fazpass.com.🚀 What’s Next
The 2025 Global Startup Ecosystem Report by Startup Genome highlights Southeast Asia’s accelerating momentum, with Jakarta jumping four positions to become the world’s #2 Emerging Startup Ecosystem. Unlike other climbers, Jakarta’s rise wasn’t driven by a major exit. Wuxi climbed to #1 after a 67% surge in $50M+ exits, and Riyadh leapt rankings thanks to rasan.co’s $1.1B exit. Jakarta’s improvement instead reflects broader, steady strengthening across early-stage activity, a rare organic shift in today’s exit-driven landscape.
