In 2014 the financial literacy in our country was only 36 percent or 90 million people. Last year this number has increased to about 130 million people. The increased was not up to 50 percent. Still far from the government’s target that was about 75 percent.

Another case related to the condition of internet users in Indonesia, based on survey results of the Association of Internet Service Providers Indonesia, the number of internet users in 2017 has reached 143.26 million people or 54.68 percent of the total population in Indonesia, which were 262 million people.

That number has increased from 2016 which reached to 132.70 million people or 7.96 percent of the number of active internet users in Indonesia. According to the age, a group of millenial or the generation of people under 34 years old generation is the most active of the internet users.

In the population of 13-18 years old, the penetration of internet users has reached 75.5 percent, and the population of 19-34 years old has reached 74.23 percent.

PT Asuransi Jiwasraya (Persero) does not want to waste that huge opportunity (of local interent users) to increase the literacy.

Information Technology Division Chairman of Jiwasraya Insurance, Bagus Wiharjanto, said that one of the policies stated in the Work Plan and Corporate Budget (RKAP) this year is financial services based on financial technology (fintech).

It is good to think of great opportunities for the existence of fintech in recent years. If it applied in the insurance industry, fintech can create innovations that facilitate the insured process, such as micro insurance and personal accident.

The innovations in insurance industry can change the way people view of the industry and also help improve its financial literacy. The Colaboration with Fintech could be a great opportunity for education, both for customers and the public. The idea is quite effective considering the financial services transaction from the new digital insurance has just reached four percent.

“We have launched the apliaction of JS Simple Protection and JS Mikro Sahabat this year,” said Bagus. furthermore, he also mentioned that the cooperation between the state-owned enteprises insurance company, Asuransi Jiwasraya and fintech will create a  fintech insurance application, then the features in the application will develop to such as gamification feature. The purpose of this gamification is to create education through the form of games as a part of financial literacy.

“To introduce the products, we fill the game elements into the app as part of the literacy. Hopefully, this year it will run. Fintech as the application, and the implementation (of the idea) through the application or mobile app,” he explained.

Source: Antara

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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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Airlangga said that after his meeting with Singapore’s Minister of Communication and Information, S. Iswaran. Minister of Industry explained that, in the preparation of the implementation of Industry 4.0, the Indonesian government had launched the roadmap of Making Indonesia 4.0 which was inaugurated by the President of Indonesia Joko Widodo.

“So, there is a clear direction for the development of the competitiveness of our manufacturing sector in the future, including our targets,” he said. Based on the Making Indonesia 4.0, there were five manufacturing sectors that will focus on the early stages, which were the food and beverage industry, textiles and apparel, automotive, electronics and chemicals.

“The target is Indonesia will be the seventh strongest economy country in the world in 2030. In fact, in 2050, Indonesia is efforted to be ranked fourth in the world,” he explained. Airlangga believed this digital economic cooperation will make the increase forwardof the economy of Indonesia and Singapore. Furthermore, it will potentially make the increased investment and competence of human resources (HR), and also, the transfer of technology and innovation.

These positive impacts were suit with the 10 national priority steps in Making Indonesia 4.0. “For example, building a national digital infrastructure, improving the quality of human resources, and the development of innovative ecosystems,” he said.

In the effort to support the development of the digital economy in Indonesia, the Ministry of Industry had facilitated through built of incubation buildings for startup businesses, such as Bandung Techno Park, Bali Creative Industry Center (BCIC) or TohpaTI Center, Incubator Business Center in Semarang, Makassar Technopark, and Mobile Design Center in Batam.

For Indonesia-Singapore cooperation, the potential of ideal digital hub location was in Batam, because it was nearest and strategic. “We and also with the private sector boost the development of Nongsa Digital Park in Batam,” said Airlangga. These facilities became the basis of innovation and creativity for Indonesian young generation who wanted to develop software, web, application, film and animation, and also, other digital programs.

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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In general the definition of literacy is the ability of people in understanding and implementing an information. So financial literacy is the ability of a person in understanding and implementing of the financial information so that they can anticipate various obstacles that may occur.

In 2014 the financial literacy in our country was only 36 percent or 90 million people. Last year this number has increased to about 130 million people. The increased was not up to 50 percent. Still far from the government’s target that was about 75 percent.

Another case related to the condition of internet users in Indonesia, based on survey results of the Association of Internet Service Providers Indonesia, the number of internet users in 2017 has reached 143.26 million people or 54.68 percent of the total population in Indonesia, which were 262 million people.

That number has increased from 2016 which reached to 132.70 million people or 7.96 percent of the number of active internet users in Indonesia. According to the age, a group of millenial or the generation of people under 34 years old generation is the most active of the internet users.

In the population of 13-18 years old, the penetration of internet users has reached 75.5 percent, and the population of 19-34 years old has reached 74.23 percent.

PT Asuransi Jiwasraya (Persero) does not want to waste that huge opportunity (of local interent users) to increase the literacy.

Information Technology Division Chairman of Jiwasraya Insurance, Bagus Wiharjanto, said that one of the policies stated in the Work Plan and Corporate Budget (RKAP) this year is financial services based on financial technology (fintech).

It is good to think of great opportunities for the existence of fintech in recent years. If it applied in the insurance industry, fintech can create innovations that facilitate the insured process, such as micro insurance and personal accident.

The innovations in insurance industry can change the way people view of the industry and also help improve its financial literacy. The Colaboration with Fintech could be a great opportunity for education, both for customers and the public. The idea is quite effective considering the financial services transaction from the new digital insurance has just reached four percent.

"We have launched the apliaction of JS Simple Protection and JS Mikro Sahabat this year," said Bagus. furthermore, he also mentioned that the cooperation between the state-owned enteprises insurance company, Asuransi Jiwasraya and fintech will create a  fintech insurance application, then the features in the application will develop to such as gamification feature. The purpose of this gamification is to create education through the form of games as a part of financial literacy.

"To introduce the products, we fill the game elements into the app as part of the literacy. Hopefully, this year it will run. Fintech as the application, and the implementation (of the idea) through the application or mobile app," he explained.

Source: Antara

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The Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) estimates that Presidential Regulation No. 20 of 2018 on the Usage of Foreign Workers is expected to push the investment until 20 percent. Head of BKPM Thomas Trikasih Lembong said, the permit to usage of foreign workers is one of the main complaints of investors who invest in Indonesia.

"In this foreign workers permit they (investors) have to meet and go around the agencies. If this rule is really on the path of reform that covers ‘Online Single Submission`, I think the increase can be 10-20 percent," he said.

The former Minister of Trade ensures that the increase of investment will encourage the usage of foreign workers. The reason is that the international investors have been putting billions dollars in other countries with full of risk.

"I’m sure they (the investors) wants to bring their people because it would be too risky if something happen. If I were an investor I would want to put my own people or the best people in the world without seeing their citizenship in the investment," he said.

Nevertheless the number of foreign workers in Indonesia only reach one per thousand compared than the number of Indonesian workers currently working abroad. In fact, roughly, from 1,000 workers in Indonesia, only one of them is a foreign worker.

"So it is unreasonable that 999 Indonesians ‘fear’ to be surrounded by a single stranger. This fact has even been recognized by senior figures on the opposition coalition," he said. Although the government supports the simplification of procedures for the usage of foreign workers, the government on the other hand continues to improve the skills and knowledge of local workers.

It is hoped that these efforts can encourage local workforce to develop with better jobs and earn higher income. "Therefore, the government prepares vocational training programs and polytechnics to improve the skills of our workforce in order to develop," he concluded.

Source: Bisnis Indonesia

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The public must not worry about the arrangement of foreign worker (FW) license that are designed by the government. Therefore, the structuring of FW license will ease the demand of investment, so quickly developing the economy, and creating more jobs.

The Minister of Manpower, Hanif Dhakiri, said the arrangement of FW license also do not mean to ease all foreign workers to enter or exit of Indonesia. It just arranges for the licensing procedure and work permit in Indonesia to be more simple, faster, and accountable.

Hanif also responds to public concern about the easily possibility of FW entering Indonesia, because of the arrangement of FW license. "Do not worry too much, the arrangement of FW license is for the demand of investment so develop the economy and create more job. And, the arrangement does not mean to make the easy. It just makes the licensing to be more simple, faster and accountable," said Hanif on his written statement.

He explains that the arrangement is done for all of licensing procedure of integrated investment through single submission system, either at central or regional level. A lot of investors are hampered because of difficult licensing process when they want to invest in Indonesia.

According to him, a single submission system, will ease the bussines and invest. So it will create more jobs. "We need a lot of investment, both domestically and internationally to create jobs. It is certainly for Indonesia people, not for others," said Hanif.

"The usage of foreign workers are only necessary and still have to meet the qualification. Blue-collar workers who have been banned from entering since earlier will still be banned. So please do not misunderstand," He added.

On the other hand, according to Hanif, the government continues to boost the quality of Indonesian human resources, especially to fill the lack of the position of upper middle level. But there are excess labor (over supply) on lower level. This group need to be given opportunities to improve their skill.

"Our 128 million active workers are still dominated by people who graduate from elementary or junior high school. We are over supply on lower level, but lack on upper middle level. It is the task of government to upgradethe skill of our human resources, good quality, enough quantity, and spread all over the region," he concluded.

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