The 2018 Indonesia Fintech Fair was the first event that held start this year. It took the theme of “Fintech Transforming Life” and was organized by the Fintech Indonesia Association (Aftech) in Jakarta. The purpose of this financial technology community event was to broaden the education and information on the conventional tekfin and shariah tekfin to innovate teh alternative solutions to gain the financial access for wider community.

With a theme that emphasiz the consumer protection, the 2018 Indonesia Fintech Fair was attended by all stakeholders of the financial technology industry ecosystem from government, bankers, fintech service providers, which are Investree, and other fintech companies to interact directly with public in the panel discussions.

During the event there were also various exhibitions, the product and service presentations, and games. Co-Founder and CEO of PT Investree Radhika Jaya (Investree) Adrian Gunadi said the involving of the community to improve the awareness and diversification of products and services is very important, because it could strengthen the protection of the consumers.

Except of that, Adrian who also serves as Vice Chairman of Aftech said that the event became an opportunity for the association to educate the fintech businessmen to run the business with a sense of full responsibility and transparent.

“We see that the event is the right momentum and a good opportunity to share the awareness because all stakeholders will be attended and join with people whether aware or not to the benefits of tekfin,” said Adrian.

In the future, Investree will introduce the detail of their newest products and services based on sharia. These products are the Sharia payment service based on Invoice Financing and the Sharia Online Seller Financing for Online Store.

The Definition of the Sharia payment service is a funding product guaranteed by invoices, designed to apply the sharia method through Akad Al Qardh for bailout and Akad Wakalah Bil Ujrah for gaining the profit or ujrah.

While the Sharia Online Seller Financing is a working capital financial service for online store sellers who have an active store on the e-commerce platform of Investree partners. This transaction is also using sharia mehods (Akad Murabahah and Wakalah) with monthly installment payment scheme and the 12 month of period.

Sixty-Four Fintech Approved by OJK

The improvement of fintech industry seems to get a positive response. The Financial Services Authority (OJK) as the regulator of the financial services industry has recorded the number of registered fintech until June 2018, which are already 64 fintech. The number has increased compared to previous time. On April 2018, OJK had registered 51 fintech companies.

According to the official website of OJK, it has informed that until now only one fintech company that get permission, which is Danamas. While the latest one that registered on June 8, 2018 was Kreditcepat.

Until April 2018, the fintech peer to peer lending industry had distributed Rp 5.42 trillion. The value had increased 111.23% compared to December 2018. While the ratio of non-performing loans (NPL) from fintech lending had reached 0.53% in April 2018. The value had decreased compared to December 2017 which reached 0.99%. While the amount of borrowers at April 2018 had reached 1.47 million entities, up 468.79% year to date. Then the number of lenders had reached 162,373 entities, up 60.86% year to date.

Source: Antara

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“Recently ponpes has taken a part in encouraging the economic growth, because many of them which have built the cooperatives, develop the various business units, both small and medium scale, and also, have business incubators,” said Minister of Industry Airlangga Hartarto.

Ministry of Industry has intensively carrying out the activities of developing of new industrial entrepreneurs and the development of industrial units in the pesantren. It was called the Santripreneur program. “Almost 70 percent of Indonesian businessmen are in MSME sector. This is a quite strong asset to face the industrial revolution 4.0,” said Airlangga.

Airlangga added that ponpes had great potential to create new entrepreneurs and grow the small and medium industries. “This is certainly a gift from God that we should be grateful for. Our potential is very large that supported by a lot of campuses and pesantrens in Indonesia which is not exist in other countries in the world,” he added.

Based on data from the Ministry of Religious Affairs, during the year 2014-2015, in Indonesia there were 28,961 ponpes spread all of the province which had santri of more than 4 million people. From the total of ponpes, 23,331 ponpes or 80 percent of them were in 4 provinces, which were West Java, East Java, Central Java and Banten.

Minister of industry optimistically said that with the development of the digital era today, the students could be a strategic change agent in building the nation and the Indonesian economy in the future. For that reason, Indonesian santri must study seriously in science, both religion and entrepreneurship. They, the majority of millenial generation, also need to understand the latest technology.

Moreover, in the next 10 years, Indonesia would havethe demographic or momentum bonus when the population was dominated by productive age (ages 15-64 had reached 70 percent). Currently Indonesia’s economy is ranked 16th in the world. We believe, according to aspirations in Making Indonesia 4.0, it can be a country that is in the top 10 of the world’s strongest economies by 2030.

Therefore, the ministry of industry was committed to support the development of national Small Medium Industry (IKM) in the era of digital economy, by building an e-commerce platform called e-Smart IKM. The Government have been working with a number of domestic marketplaces to provide IKM e-Smart workshops to several regions in Indonesia, so santri should also take this opportunity.

Until now, there were 1,730 IKM businessmen who have participated in IKM e-Smart workshops. By 2019, The ministry of industry would target to invite up to 10 thousand IKM businessmen in Indonesia to attend the workshop. Government will also build technology centers to improve the acces of IKM to technology acquisitions and provide the mentoring support to encourage the innovation.

Source: Antara

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A great event of financial technology (fintech) industry had been held in Jakarta. The event with the title of The 2018 Indonesia Fintech Fair was expected to be an appropriate event for some fintech companies to improve the public awareness about technology-based lending services and companies or more popularly called as Peer to Peer Lending or P2P Lending.

The 2018 Indonesia Fintech Fair was the first event that held start this year. It took the theme of "Fintech Transforming Life" and was organized by the Fintech Indonesia Association (Aftech) in Jakarta. The purpose of this financial technology community event was to broaden the education and information on the conventional tekfin and shariah tekfin to innovate teh alternative solutions to gain the financial access for wider community.

With a theme that emphasiz the consumer protection, the 2018 Indonesia Fintech Fair was attended by all stakeholders of the financial technology industry ecosystem from government, bankers, fintech service providers, which are Investree, and other fintech companies to interact directly with public in the panel discussions.

During the event there were also various exhibitions, the product and service presentations, and games. Co-Founder and CEO of PT Investree Radhika Jaya (Investree) Adrian Gunadi said the involving of the community to improve the awareness and diversification of products and services is very important, because it could strengthen the protection of the consumers.

Except of that, Adrian who also serves as Vice Chairman of Aftech said that the event became an opportunity for the association to educate the fintech businessmen to run the business with a sense of full responsibility and transparent.

"We see that the event is the right momentum and a good opportunity to share the awareness because all stakeholders will be attended and join with people whether aware or not to the benefits of tekfin," said Adrian.

In the future, Investree will introduce the detail of their newest products and services based on sharia. These products are the Sharia payment service based on Invoice Financing and the Sharia Online Seller Financing for Online Store.

The Definition of the Sharia payment service is a funding product guaranteed by invoices, designed to apply the sharia method through Akad Al Qardh for bailout and Akad Wakalah Bil Ujrah for gaining the profit or ujrah.

While the Sharia Online Seller Financing is a working capital financial service for online store sellers who have an active store on the e-commerce platform of Investree partners. This transaction is also using sharia mehods (Akad Murabahah and Wakalah) with monthly installment payment scheme and the 12 month of period.

Sixty-Four Fintech Approved by OJK
The improvement of fintech industry seems to get a positive response. The Financial Services Authority (OJK) as the regulator of the financial services industry has recorded the number of registered fintech until June 2018, which are already 64 fintech. The number has increased compared to previous time. On April 2018, OJK had registered 51 fintech companies.

According to the official website of OJK, it has informed that until now only one fintech company that get permission, which is Danamas. While the latest one that registered on June 8, 2018 was Kreditcepat.

Until April 2018, the fintech peer to peer lending industry had distributed Rp 5.42 trillion. The value had increased 111.23% compared to December 2018. While the ratio of non-performing loans (NPL) from fintech lending had reached 0.53% in April 2018. The value had decreased compared to December 2017 which reached 0.99%. While the amount of borrowers at April 2018 had reached 1.47 million entities, up 468.79% year to date. Then the number of lenders had reached 162,373 entities, up 60.86% year to date.

Source: Antara

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Indonesia will conduct the second World Conference on Creative Economy (WCCE) which will be planned to take place in Bali on November 2018. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Creative Economy Agency (Bekraf) said that the creative economy is one of the booster of economic growth and development in the future by cultivating Indonesian culture. The upcoming WCCE 2018 is expected to arrange a basic standard for creating a conducive environment to the growth of Indonesia’s creative economy.

The creative economy have been growing very impressively in this country and becoming an important contributor to social and economic development. Startup companies that based on information technology, such as Go-Jek, Traveloka, Tokopedia and BukaLapak that started their business in the last few years, now each value has exceeded more than one billion USD.

Those four Indonesian startup companies have already been becoming unicorns because each asset is one billion USD or more. Vice Chairman of Bekraf, Ricky J Persik, revealed that the creative economy sector has contributes 7.43 percent of the total GDP in Indonesia, or about 70 billion US dollars.

Approximately 17 million people are worked in the creative economy in Indonesia. "One of the challenges is how to bring this creative industry into a main booster of the country’s economic sector in the future," said Ricky. The creative economy is predicted to be one of the booster of economic growth and global development in the future.

Now the creative economy has became an economic booster with a capitalization of 2.25 trillion US dollars, which provides nearly 30 million jobs worldwide. The more important fact is that the contribution of the unicorn companies are not only looking to the company’s economic value and financial benefit, but have also been able to empower the local community in an inclusive way.

Indonesian Comics, Main Sector of Creative Economy

Indonesian comics are growing as the platform allows by the readers to read them through mobile phones or computers. Head of Creative Economy Board (Bekraf) Triawan Munaf feels optimistic that comics have great potential that will push the creative economy of the country.

"The synergy among the various sub-sectors of the creative economy will strengthen the industry, and the comics are the main sectors," Triawan said. The managers of The Intellectual Property of Indonesia which focus on unity of comic industry in Indonesian Comics Association (AsosiasiKomik Indonesia/AKSI).

Faza Meonk as Chairman of AKSI and Imansyah Lubis as the General Secretariat of AKSI admited that in a few years Indonesian comics have successfully collaborated with some other entertainment industries. In 2017, there are two Indonesian movies which are adapted from the comic book, "Valentine" and "Si Juki the Movie."

Moreover, currently the collaboration among comics with games, performing arts, and music has been conducted. "Indonesian Comics are the main of all that (creative economy industry). Comics are the first idea of character that then appear to become some characters in some stories. So the basic story is from comics," said Triawan.

The government promised to support constantly to push the growth of creative economy in Indonesia, including comics industry as one of its focus. Next year Indonesia will become a Country Focus in London Book Fair. Indonesian comics will be the one of the center of attention at London Book Fair next year.

Source: Antara

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