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Indonesia

Bandung

Indonesia's third-largest startup ecosystem by volume, built on the engineering talent of Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) and Telkom University — roughly 8,000 digital-ready graduates a year, feeding both a government-backed innovation park and a Telkom-run startup incubator. The gap with Jakarta is real: Bandung captures under 3% of national VC deployment by value, and a third of its graduates leave for the capital within 18 months.

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Gedebage Innovation District

A rapidly developing commercial and research zone in eastern Bandung, anchored by ITB's own innovation park and backed by provincial government growth targets for the digital creative sector.

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ITB Innovation Park (Bandung Technopolis)

Nearly 40,000 sqm at Summarecon Bandung, soft-opened December 2024. It had drawn 40+ national and international tenants across ICT, disaster mitigation, food security, health, AI, transport systems and renewable energy.
 

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IndigoHub Bandung

Telkom Indonesia's startup incubator and coworking space, formerly branded Bandung Digital Valley (est. 2011) — part of Telkom's national Indigo accelerator programme.

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The Greater Hub (SBM ITB)

ITB's business school runs the annual Bandung Startup Pitching Day, connecting founders to more than a dozen VC firms including BNI Ventures, Mandiri Capital Indonesia, Telkomsel Ventures and MDI Ventures.

Tech Ecosystems in Indonesia

Indonesia's tech economy runs on contrast — a 280-million-person consumer market concentrated in Jakarta's towers, a Singapore-facing manufacturing and data-centre bridge on Batam, a bottom-up digital-nomad economy in Bali, and a government-built smart capital rising from the rainforest at Nusantara.

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