Gerakan Nasional 1000 Startup Digital is a program initiated in 2016 by the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Informatics that provides opportunities for digital technology entrepreneurship to all regions of Indonesia. This program is a collective effort by the Indonesian digital startup ecosystem drivers to take part in initiating change to build connections, share knowledge, and experiences. This movement aims to create digital-based startups with young people as the key drivers.

This program is divided into 3 focuses. The first focus is to encourage the creation of digital solutions for local problems. Participants will receive coaching/mentoring through a series of activities starting from Ignition, Workshop, Hacksprint, Bootcamp, to Incubation in order to improve the entrepreneurial mindset and quality of newly formed startups, and make their products an asset to join the accelerator program at the upcoming level. The second focus is to have a higher priority to develop talent in quality digital startups. Participants can enrich their entrepreneurial mindset and develop technical skills in the field of technology and digital startups, and gain knowledge about startups through our content, such as Cakap Startup, Sekolah Beta, and Rintisan Books. The third focus is to build a collaborative and inclusive digital startup ecosystem. Therefore, startups that formed through this program can continue to become sustainable businesses.

Since its launch in 2016, this program has captured 100k+ potential startup founders and produced 1,400+ startups. This program also involved 400+ mentors and 300+ local activists from various industrial sectors. Through this program, we have succeeded in coaching early-stage startups so that the startups can achieve product-market fit and earn revenue as well as funding.

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• Indonesia

• Youth
• Central and Regional Government, Indonesian Society, Digital Ecosystem, Business, Companies, Investors

This program encourages the development of a digital startup ecosystem with 3 main focuses on providing digital technology-based entrepreneurial opportunities to all regions of Indonesia. This program provides guidance for all Indonesian people from the early stage to being able to create an idea/solution that is product market fit based on digital technology.

Gerakan Nasional 1000 Startup Digital begins with the Ignition stage, which is a seminar that enables startup players from all over Indonesia and regulators from related industries to build common understanding and goals in adopting the latest technology that can support the development of innovative and sustainable digital startups.

In addition to the Ignition stage, this program also includes 4 stages, namely Workshop, Hacksprint, Bootcamp and Hatch!. All the activities will guide the participants to develop and execute ideas, build teams, test products to accelerate startups so they can have a real impact and provide solutions to digital problems. Moreover, participants will get connections with co-founders and experienced mentors in startups, industry, academia and government.

Up to this point, the program has been implemented in 17 hubs in Indonesia covering 34 provinces. The program curriculum is structured systematically, so it can be adapted to the conditions of the problems and potential that exist in the region. For the future, we plan that this program can be implemented independently and replicated in each region and the existing curriculum can be developed according to the needs in the region.

This program is called Ecosystem Connect. Implementing pentahelix, this program integrates various stakeholders as a step towards building a collaborative, inclusive, and sustainable digital startup ecosystem. We adopt the pentahelix collaboration which integrates stakeholders (academicians, business, community, government and media) to achieve this goal.

Through Ecosystem Connect, discussions are held between cross-stakeholders, specifically the central government, regional governments, related agencies, universities, high schools, communities, incubators, startups, and the media. This is intended to gather information on initiatives and programs that have been implemented by the government, academics, and local ecosystem players to build a digital technology-based startup ecosystem in the area.

This program also discussed current obstacles for each stakeholder, solutions that currently exist in the region, as well as mapping regional potentials that can be developed to strengthen the digital startup ecosystem and technology-based entrepreneurship both on the talent side, resources, policies, to access to capital and other opportunities. This activity invites all stakeholders in the ecosystem to be connected to each other so that they can collaborate and synergize for the development of a sustainable startup ecosystem in the future. Thus, early-stage startups will gain coaching support from the digital ecosystem in their regions to grow and go extra miles according to their problems.

From the beneficiary side, the community will get real solutions to their problems, they can increase the efficiency and productivity of life. This program will gradually increase economic growth driven by increasing e-commerce transactions and increasing new jobs.

Gerakan Nasional 1000 Startup Digital helps improve the quality and skills of digital talent and create technology-based startups to build a digital economy and support digital transformation in Indonesia by adapting the pentahelix collaboration model. We invite various stakeholders to collaborate in adopting the latest technology that can support the development of innovative and sustainable digital startups. Collaboration between stakeholders could revive the digital startup ecosystem in the region. They will be able to map the existing potential in their regions to find ideas or solutions to a problem by utilizing digital technology.