Healthcare is definitely everyone’s concern. It is a big topic, and also a big portion of spending both in government, private sector, and in personal life. There’s so much happening in Indonesian healthcare… Indonesia’s healthcare expenditure is predicted to reach US$60.6 billion in 2018 with a growth of 14.9 percent over the 2012-2018 period on [...]

Indonesia as a country has a competitive and stable financial system, however majority of the people still have little or no access at all to banking services. Recent World Bank data shows that only 20% of people above 15-year-old have access to banking services, this is behind our ASEAN neighbours. Every one believes that mobile, Indonesia [...]

Hey Folks, You’re invited to a Special MobileMonday Night for ” BB10 Show Case – What Can’t BB10 Do? ” Following up the recent BB10 launch in Indonesia, definitely we want to understand what’s in this much anticipated platform. This new platform brings a lot of multimedia features, new Hub/Flow experience, while retaining a lot of BB much [...]

Dear MoMo Friends, Hope this message finds you well, safe and sound from all the recent flood in Jakarta. Tourism industry is one of Indonesia’s economic pillar. We serve millions of domestic and international tourists (latest prediction is 11 million foreign tourists per year by 2015). Creating a good portion of contribution in our GDP [...]

Hi Friends of MobileMonday! You are cordially invited to come and join us in MobileMonday 5th anniversary celebration. Yes, we’ve started the community since 2007, and its 2012 already! Joining us are our special guests from MobileMonday Global community – Jari Tammisto (CEO MobileMonday Global), Mauro Montanaro (well-known exec in mobile/tech industry) and Alex Lambeek (CEO AORA TV). [...]

The event will be held on Monday, 24 September 2012 at 18:00 WIB . Event venue is at Amigos Restaurant, Bellagio Mall , Kawasan Mega Kuningan Jakarta. This event is co-hosted by Boost ( boost-asia.com) and supported by XL, Biznet, and Gree. Special thanks to XL for co-hosting it … with special appearance from Bu Dian who will welcome us all [...]

Hi MobileMonday Friends: We’ve been planning to do this topic for a looong time – which is the “ Mobile Gaming ” theme! Yeah, it’s consistently a top value added services and top downloaded applications. And moreover, did we mention FUN?! What else is more fun than games… We have a couple of great speakers and friends (interesting mix) to [...]

It’s time for another MobileMonday event – yeah! (I know, it’s pretty close to the previous event, but we have eight good excuses) As you might notice there’s the upcoming Startup Asia event in Jakarta, and as part of the supporting community we have the opportunity to grab some of the interesting startup to DO A PITCH TO [...]

No doubt, mobile Internet has become the recent darling of Indonesian mobile industry. Growth in number of subscribers and revenue has been attributed to the growth of mobile broadband services, which is fueled by usage of Internet through mobile devices. Many of Indonesian’s first Internet experience are actually mobile as well. Obviously Social Networking sites are [...]

Most of the headlines in the newspapers are around the middle class people in the cities. Urban life. All the malls and socialites. Surely it’s the hottest market at this moment. But let’s turn to the other part of Indonesia. We know that around 55% Indonesia’s population still live in rural area. And though middle class is said [...]

I think the presenters in the event provided a good balance of opinion. Part of them are upbeat about the opportunity in M2M, while there’s also the realist part… Audience are a bit of a split as well. That’s my quick take on the event. The slides can be found here, as usual:  https://sites.google.com/site/idmomoslides2012/ Rustam Effendie, from Ericsson Indonesia, [...]

As you know, we’re closing to pass the 6-billion-mobile-subscribers-on-earth mark (5.9 billion and counting). A very remarkable feast and left us sometimes wondering, what else to be connected… Pundits, analysts, and futurists believe, however, that there are still more room to grow. The phrase   “50 billion connected devices by 2020″ – is one of the famous forecast by [...]

Guys, apology that I haven’t been able to post the recap… crazy busy. Nevertheless, here’s the link to the slides: https://sites.google.com/site/idmomoslides2012/ And Frost & Sullivan team has already put their slide on SlideShare as well:  

Enjoy and see you next month! [...]

Dear MobileMonday Friends, Welcome to the next MobileMonday event, co-hosted with Telkomsel and themed “ Mobile Commerce in Digital Lifestyle: Opportunities and Challenges for 2012 ” This is a very hot and interesting topic. As noted by Tomi Ahonen (Pearls #3 – Mobile Money, 2011), mobile application in commerce space has gone from a long way from a simple SMS alert [...]

Dear MobileMonday friends, “Apps” – in the era of smart phones, apps have played a very important role, and an important monetization means for telco, platform provider, and developers. We are also living in the time of major shifts that helps in app developers: 1) there are more ways to monetize in apps – not just one-time fee [...]

Hi MobileMonday! One of the most overlooked opportunity is mobility applications in the enterprise. According to IDC (IDC Blackbook March 2011 Ed.), enterprise IT spending in Indonesia is worth $2.89 billion in 2011, about the same size as consumer IT spending. About 28% of that spending goes to software and services, including mobility applications… and about 36% goes [...]

A very quick recap on the event today… it’s 1 AM, so apology if I made any typo… A quick note before everything else though… last night’s event marked the anniversary of RIM’s sponsorship for MobileMonday Indonesia. Thank you, once again for our platinum sponsor. Now, back to the event. We had 6 speakers for the Buka Puasa. Surely [...]

Buka Bersama MobileMonday Indonesia will feature a topic dear to every developers and mobile enthusiasts: mobile apps… Hot-hot-hot space to be, complex and competitive as it can be. One analyst estimated that by 2012 the global mobile app market could worth $17.5bio with no less than 50bio downloads (Sizing App the Global Mobile App Market, [...]

Mobile video traffic will exceed 50 percent for the first time in 2011. Mobile video traffic was 49.8 percent of total mobile data traffic at the end of 2010, and will account for 52.8 percent of traffic by the end of 2011. By the end of 2015 it will account for 66% of traffic – more [...]

Hi MobileMonday friends, Let’s meet up in the upcoming MobileMonday Networking Event, co-host and sponsored by IDS/ideosource. We’ll take a (re)look at the mobile advertising/marketing landscape in Indonesia… featuring the following speakers: Andi S. Budiman (founder of IDS International Design School and partner of Ideosource) “Monetize Indonesian Mobile & Internet through Community and Consumers” Tri Meyliana Sadewi (BuzzCity [...]