MAROKO133 Hot startup: IFRF rallies food-resilience leadership 🍚. Quantum-safe connectivit

📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif startup: IFRF rallies food-resilience leadership 🍚. Quantum-

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.

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DailySocial Team

🚨 What’s New

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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 Breaking startup: Lincah acquires Orderfaz. 🤝 BPJS eyes global AI infr

Dear subscribers,

As we enter the final month of 2026, Indonesia’s startup and digital ecosystem continues to move at full speed. Strategic milestones — from IPOs and M&A activity to regional expansion — have shaped the headlines over the past week. To help kickstart your week, we’ve curated the key highlights for you in this issue.

We are also pleased to invite investors — including VC, PE, and angel investors — to Garuda Sparks’ Lunch and Launch, featuring pitching sessions from 10 selected high-potential startups. The event will take place on Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM at GSIH fX Sudirman, Jakarta.

More information and registration for investors: https://luma.com/gt784e9e

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DailySocial Team

🚨 What’s New

Here are several key updates from Indonesia’s startup ecosystem over the past week:

• Lincah has acquired Orderfaz to strengthen its social commerce infrastructure across Southeast Asia, integrating Orderfaz’s technology and seller base to build a more unified regional ecosystem and accelerate growth for creators and social entrepreneurs. Lincah currently powers more than 23,000 sellers and 8.3 million buyers across major social platforms with over 500,000 monthly transactions, while Orderfaz is a platform providing tools for order management and social selling enablement for online merchants. The acquisition supports expansion from Indonesia toward Malaysia, supported by an experienced leadership team and long-term regional strategy. [Read more]

• Superbank — the digital bank formed through a collaboration between Grab and Emtek — has officially entered its IPO phase, targeting to raise over Rp3 trillion by offering up to 4.40 billion new shares priced between Rp525–695 during the 25 November–1 December 2025 book-building period. The funds will be used mainly to support lending expansion (70%) and operational investment (30%). Superbank is expanding digital financial products such as Saku, Celengan, and competitive deposit services, aiming to strengthen its position in Indonesia’s digital banking landscape through its upcoming BEI listing scheduled for 17 December 2025. [Read more]

• INDODAX, Indonesia’s largest crypto exchange, has announced a major strategic partnership with Hong Kong–licensed digital asset exchange HashKey to strengthen the national crypto ecosystem. The collaboration focuses on improving liquidity, upgrading trading infrastructure, and enabling technical integration, paving the way for innovations such as Real-World Assets (RWA). Both companies emphasized aligned commitments to regulation and user security, with HashKey viewing Indonesia as a key regional market due to its fast-growing crypto user base. The phased execution is expected to deliver faster, safer, and more reliable trading experiences while reinforcing Indonesia’s role in the Southeast Asian digital asset landscape. [Read more]

• TOCO, a community-based e-commerce platform founded in 2024 by Arnold Sebastian Egg (Founder Tokobagus, acquired by OLX), is rapidly attracting sellers by rejecting the subsidy-driven “burn money” model and eliminating admin fees for merchants. Instead of taking 8–38% platform cuts like major marketplaces, TOCO charges a flat Rp2,000 per transaction to buyers—referred to as a “parking fee”—covering logistics and payment processing. This pricing approach, combined with frustration over rising admin fees at platforms such as Shopee and Tokopedia, has triggered a wave of organic seller migration, helping TOCO reach over 1 million monthly active users and 3.4 million product listings without any marketing spend. [Read more]

• BPJS Ketenagakerjaan is exploring investment opportunities in global AI infrastructure companies, including those in the U.S., Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea, as part of a strategy to diversify its portfolio and tap into the rapidly growing AI supply chain sector. Managing Rp879 trillion in assets, the institution has requested approval to invest up to 5% overseas, focusing on data centers, energy providers, and cable network companies rather than core chipmakers—though options like Nvidia remain under consideration. The initiative awaits government regulatory clarity and hinges on rupiah stability, while BPJS also targets doubling domestic equity allocation to 20% over the next three years. [Read more]

👏 What’s Exciting

Here are several noteworthy industry developments from the regional landscape:

• Malaysia is preparing to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/malaysia-says-it-plans-ban-social-media-under-1…

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