This week, I had the chance to attend a workshop in Bandung, part of the Entrepreneur Hub (EHUB) program organized by the Ministry MSME (KemenUMKM). The event, focusing on sociopreneurship, was opened by Siti Azizah, Deputy for Entrepreneurship, and Irwansyah Putra Panjaitan, Assistant Deputy for Business Ecosystem Development. The audience included social entrepreneurs, SMEs, and representatives from the West Java provincial government. It was an engaging session that shed light on how sociopreneurship is shaping the MSME economy.
Sociopreneurship is all about blending business strategies with a commitment to solving social problems. What makes it unique is that its performance is measured by the impact it creates on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Whether it’s tackling poverty, promoting education, or addressing environmental issues, sociopreneurship drives real-world solutions while building sustainable businesses.
On the regulatory side, the Indonesian government plays a vital role in creating policies that support the growth of these ventures, ensuring they thrive within a robust MSME ecosystem. Ultimately, sociopreneurship is a catalyst for economic and social empowerment, creating a ripple effect of positive change in communities.
The leading role of the IEEE in advancing global science and technology development is undeniable. Still, outside the circles of scientists and engineers, people are more or less blind about the IEEE activities. Interestingly, since the leadership of Prof. Gamantyo Hendrantoro and Dr. Agnes Irwanti in the IEEE Indonesia Section, the publication of IEEE’s scientific discourse has been more widely disseminated to the general public. For two consecutive years, IEEE Indonesia has brought the IEEE President to Indonesia, featuring discussions broadcasted on television to improve the interest of the Indonesian public.
The IEEE President of 2024, Dr Tom Coughlin, paid a visit to Jakarta this week, accompanied by IEEE R10 Director Prof. Lance Fung, IEEE R10 Director-Elect Prof. Takako Hashimoto, IEEE R10 Women-in-Engineering Committee Chair Dr Agnes Irwanti, IEEE Malaysia Section Chair Dr Bernard Lim, and IEEE Indonesia Section Chair Prof. Gamantyo Hendrantoro. As part of the leadership activities, an IEEE briefing was held on the morning of May 14, followed by a talkshow broadcasted by TVRI.
The theme of the talkshow was “Shaping the Future: Women’s Role in Industry” — featuring prominent leaders from the industry, university, government, and the IEEE organisation in the region. One of them is a dear old friend of mine, Elysabeth Damayanti, the OVP of Cybersecurity at Telkom Indonesia. The talkshow started with an opening speech by Dr Agnes, and some keynote speeches from Ms Mira Tayyiba as the General Secretary of the MCI, and Dr Laksana Tri Handoko as the Head of BRIN — the Indonesian governmental centre for research.
As one of the speaker of the talkshow, I started by mentioning the implications of Complexity Science: that we always recognise the diversity of the systems we are working on, where different fields, agents, participants, are all interconnected, resulting in emergence: new values, greater values, surprising values. It is how the Internet and our digital world proliferates, and how both natural ecosystems and business ecosystems sustain. This perspective naturally supports the idea of inclusivity, as different agents from various demographic groups are considered crucial for the survivability and innovativeness of all the systems we are living in, including, surely and crucially, the role of women. It is a key reason to reduce and close the gender disparity.
The WEF has released the 2023 Global Gender Gap Report, mentioning Indonesia in rank 87th out of 146 countries in gender gap. Low enough, but still ahead of some developed countries in Asia, including Japan, China, and South Korea. Indonesian score was about 68% of the gender gap closed — including the relatively low gap in health quality, medium gap in economic participation, and high gap in political empowerment.
We believe that digital transformation that we are developing now, could and should plunge down the disparity. Currently we carry out the digital transformation in strategic & business level to alleviate the economy of the people from the eastern part to the western part of Indonesia; by developing platform, making some piloting implementation with the government, national industry, and then expand it. We work to to enhance MSME business, agriculture, industry, educations, etc, even to remote islands in Indonesia. It is evident, that digital platforms have provided women and men quite equally with wider access to knowledge, services, market & business opportunities. But the transformation must be carefully-planned and deployed with proper education.
Digitalisation in work processes allow us to provide better empowerment for women. It may bypass many social challenges, encouraging women to reduce the unfortunate judgement that are still existing from the traditional norms. Business transformation allow better inclusions in workplaces and business in general. It is also an opportunity for women to aggregate their commitment, capabilities, and opportunities. Use digital services to maximise collaborations, to work in partnership, to be brave take the leadership of the community, to lead the change, and to support each other both in personal level, organisational level, and cross -industry ecosystem.
That is the one of the key. Another key is diversity & uniqueness. So, women should keep their own identity, personality, and mindsets, to preserve different perspectives & values; while opening their mindset to new cultures, different ways of think.
I spent the rest of the time to listen from the honorary speakers of this event. It is one of the most valuable day for me this year, to learn a lot from the wisdoms presented today. Hopefully the IEEE Indonesia Section will continue this valuable activities more and more in the future.
As a part of Synergy team of Telkom Group, sometimes we are requested to facilitate meetings between or among SOEs. This week we got involved in a meeting between the Vice CEO of BRI (Catur Budi Harto), IT Director of BRI (Arga Mahanana Nugraha), Group Business Development Director of Telkom (Honesti Basyir), and CEO of Admedika (Dwi Sulistiani) as one of the subsidiary of Telkom. BRI & Telkom are two of the greatest SOE in Indonesia with strong roles & commitments to enhance ecosystem-based national economy through transformations in technology and business: BRI as the top bank in Indonesia, and Telkom surely as the top telco in Indonesia.
Streamlining among SOEs business developments is always necessary, including technological aspects. As a commitment, BRI will cease its satellite initiatives and return instead to use Telkom satellites (or other providers in compliance to regulatory and business norms). Alignments in the use of data centres are under consideration too. National economic development programs will be managed in alignment with competencies and business. An establishment of BRI-Pegadaian-PNM holding to grow MSME and ultra-micro economy is a good example for that, as well as other holdings and strategic alliances among SOEs. Doors for cross investment could also be opened, for example in healthcare ecosystem.
Agricultural transformation is a great technological and business opportunities with huge challenges and risks, requiring strategic-level collaboration or alliance in aggregating the capabilities, resources, while sharing the business risks that may occur.
Scala, a Japanese digital enterprise aiming to enhance the prosperity of mankind through digital technology development, has requested since last year to be the strategic partner of Telkom Indonesia in developing digital platform-based agricultural business transformation. We have spent months — days and nights — to discuss the aspects of technology development, business arrangement, ecosystem empowerment, etc for this strategic alliance preparation. Today, 1 April 2024, the representative of Scala BOD has signed the Agreement with EVP of Telkom’s Digital Business & Technology.
After the signing, we will follow up the agreement with some piloting (also in Leadership Transformation called the quick-wins) as a foundation for the collaborative transformation framework. We’ll see in the next months.
IMT-GT SPM (Strategic Planning Meeting) 2024 is currently carried out in Jakarta, 23–25 March 2024. Leveraging regional economy through digital transformation and ecosystem-based strategy is still the main theme of the discussion. Representing Telkom Indonesia, we put our focus on cross-border MSME products transaction and delivery, expecting to design a pilot with different treatment in custom, logistics, and payment policies & best-practices, to be replicated wider after its initial piloting success.
Some pictures after the meeting on Sunday afernoon:
Yours truly with IMT-GT WGDT ChairBusiness wings: The JBCWith MCI (Kemkominfo) Team
It is not a regular occasion of any serving IEEE President to visit Indonesia. In our official note, the first serving IEEE President to visit Indonesia was Prof Peter Staecker in 2013 — he visited Bali for an IEEE Educational Program awareness while I was only days starting my service as the IEEE Indonesia Section Chair. This year, Prof Saiful Rahman, the current IEEE President, is visiting Indonesia for a couple days. The visit is related to the IEEE campaigns in climate change; so it is also the theme of his visit. He is visiting Indonesia accompanied by the current IEEE Indonesia Section Chair, Prof Gamantyo, and the IEEE Malaysia Chair-Elect, Bernard Lim.
As one of the programs within his visit, the IEEE Indonesia Section co-organise with TVRI, an on-air discussion titled the IEEE ASEAN Roundtable on Climate Change. The event was carried out today in TVRI, with the IEEE President Prof Saifur Rahman as the main speaker, and teens of other speakers from the industry, universities, research centres, and government agencies as participants in round table discussion form — including yours truly, representing the IEEE Indonesia Section Advisory Committee, and the IEEE TEMS Regional Leadership Subcommittee. The organiser is TVRI, led by Dr Agnes Irwanti, a member of its Supervisory Board; and Mr Iman Brotoseno, the CEO.
I explored the opportunity of using currently available or currently developed technology to reduce and overcome the impact of the climate change. Climate change is always one of the motivations behind many collaborative innovations in the development of technology and technology-based business.
Since I work in telecommunications industry, I started by giving an example in mobile industry. The use of cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access (CR/DSA) may optimise green technology by improving the efficiency and utilisation the spectrum by dynamic adaptation to changing network conditions and environmental factors. In urban areas with high network congestion, CR can switch to less crowded frequency bands, reducing power consumption and improving network performance; and it could also optimised to choose the most green-powered network infrastructure available. CR device can lower its power when communicating over shorter distances, conserving energy. CR also enables dynamic spectrum sharing among different technologies. For example, a cognitive radio network can share spectrum with existing cellular networks during peak traffic hours and switch to alternative bands during off-peak times. This optimises resource usage and reduces energy consumption in both networks. With the use of blockchain, spectrum may be shared among operators with easier accounting and cost-sharing.
In more applicative approach in the industry, the paradigm of of ecosystem-based business growth has motivated enterprises to share capabilities, resources, opportunities, so they can reduce the cost and risk, while also reduce the cost for the environment by many sharing methods used in business ecosystems, facilitated by massive digitalisation that enables process and capabilities to be modularised, reused, integrated, improved, and orchestrated among collaborative or event competitive businesses.
The use of technology like the AI and robotics play important roles in addressing climate change in various ways. Some examples:
The technology might be used for autonomous sensor-equipped robots, drones, and satellites to monitor and collect data on climate-related parameters such as temperature, humidity, carbon emissions, deforestation, and more. These technologies help in obtaining real-time and accurate data for climate analysis.
AI facilitates the analysis of huge amounts of climate data, helping researchers build more accurate climate models. These models are crucial for understanding climate change, its causes, and predicting future climate trends.
AI can optimize energy consumption in various sectors, including transportation, manufacturing, and buildings. Smart grids and energy management systems use AI to balance energy supply and demand, reduce wastage, and integrate renewable energy sources effectively.
AI-based integrated logistics management (4PL / 5PL) may orchestrate logistics services to share the logistics resources they have, with better supply chain model, supported by better demand and production prediction. It will also reduce the use of fuel and environmental cost to expand the transportation facilities.
AI can support agricultural practices, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving crop yields. Additionally, robots can assist in precision agriculture, reducing chemical usage and improving sustainability.
There are many more aspect of technology to be used to improve the environmental conditions, including the power management, traffic management, personalised education, etc. Other speakers also explored what we can do in the aspects of education, government policy, and others.
Even after the formal discussion, we still continue the discussion during the lunch session, after Friday-prayer session. I think it is also my first experience to accompany an IEEE President to a mosque to attend a Friday prayer session.
We closed the day with a more relaxing discussion during dinner at Plaza Senayan.
Melengkapi expertise yang memanjang dari jaringan broadband, platform dan infrastuktur digital, kompleksitas dan ekosistem ekonomi, hingga strategi bisnis berbasis ekosistem, dan seterusnya, aku akhirnya terjebur ke pengembangan bisnis berbasis ekosistem sosioekonomis, termasuk UMKM, pertanian, dll.
Untuk pertanian, tugas ini belum sampai satu bulan aku pegang, tapi telah membawaku menjumpai PMO Kopi Nusantara. Sebuah workshop diselenggarakan di Rancabali, di tengah perkebunan teh milik PTPN VIII, di tepi Situ Patengang. Cuaca sejuk menarik, dan menggoda untuk mengawali dengan segelas kopi lokal dari Bandung Selatan.
PMO Kopi Nusantara dibentuk Kementerian BUMN di awal 2022, beranggotakan BUMN, industri, asosiasi, dan lembaga penelitian berkait pengembangan agriculture kopi nasional. Selain berisi pembinaan atas petani kopi, PMO juga menjalin sinergi antara industri dan petani, serta memperbaiki rantai pasok kopi nasional. Telkom berperan dalam PMO ini melalui pemanfaatan platform Agree. Piloting PMO diselenggarakan di empat provinsi, yaitu Lampung, Jawa Timur, Jawa Barat, dan Sumatera Utara.
Industri kopi merupakan industri yang sangat penting bagi Indonesia, baik dari segi ekonomi maupun budaya. Indonesia dikenal sebagai produsen kopi terbesar keempat di dunia, dengan produksi kopi mencapai sekitar 650 kiloton per tahun. Kontribusi industri kopi terhadap perekonomian Indonesia mencapai ±1.25% total PDB.
Kopi juga merupakan salah satu komoditas ekspor utama Indonesia. Ekspor kopi Indonesia mencapai ±400 kiloton per tahun, dengan nilai ±US$ 1.1 miliar.
Kopi memiliki nilai penting bagi Indonesia dari segi ekonomi maupun budaya. Pengembangannya harus dilaksanakan secara sinergistik dengan memanfaatkan strategi berbasis ekosistem yang memberikan value maksimal, terutama untuk para petani kopi.
Computer Science Doctorate Program of Binus University invited me to provide an Industrial Talk for their PhD-level students. I offer them a talk on the evolution of economy and technology towards the era of complexity.
The day for the lecture was December 2nd. But since I was in Bandung that day, the lecture was carried out as a zoominar. The moderator was Dr Agung Trisetyarso; and the sponsor was surely Dr Ford Lumban Gaol, the Vice Chair of Binus University Doctorate Program in Computer Science.
I started the talk by introducing the IEEE TEMS — Technology & Engineering Management Society, where I am currently a member of its Regional Leadership Subcommittee. TEMS aims to help IEEE members to maintain essential engineering management skills, support the leadership career path of IEEE members, and foster active knowledge transfer between the academic and practicing communities.
The lecture continued by exploring the digital transformation in the contexts of digital strategy, digital architecture, and its innovative business model, which inevitably drive global business into ecosystem-based collaborative business (Warner & Wäger 2019) with its platform-based value chain (Jacobides, Cennamo, Gawer 2018) and virtually-connected strategic collaborative network (Graça & Camarinha-Matos 2016). After discussing the methods in architecting business ecosystems, the lecture shifted to business ecosystem as paradigm shift (Cha 2020). I figured that it means that business ecosystems are considered as another inevitability in a more complex business environment — even for non-digital business.
Ecosystem players — i.e. business entities related to the ecosystems — may have different needs, goals, positions, and abilities. When interactions occur, members analyse, adapt, and form an evolutionary process. Adaptabilities within a business ecosystem shows that a business ecosystem is a system that has the characteristics of a complex adaptive system (CAS).
Adaptability in CAS occurs both to environmental changes and to changes in relation among players in the system (Arthur et al. 1997). Simultaneous and continuous adaptability among players in CAS will result in co-evolution (Gomes & Gubareva 2020). This co-evolution also allows changing roles in the business ecosystem. The result of this collective activity is adaptability that creates new things (emergence) with dynamic congruence.
But this is not a deep exploration on ecosystem business and CAS. Instead, this talk aims to provide some insights on the aspects of complexity, where CAS and ecosystem business are only some examples of its parts. I then restarted with a storytelling of the exploration of complexities, starting from Murray Gell-Mann, his book The Quark and The Jaguar, and the establishment of Santa Fe Institute.
The scientific method is the portmanteau of instruments, formalisms, and experimental practices that succeed in discovering basic mechanisms despite the limitations of individual intelligence. There are, however, on this planet, phenomena that are hidden in plain sight. These are the phenomena that we study as complex systems: the convoluted exhibitions of the adaptive world — from cells to societies. Examples of these complex systems include cities, economies, civilizations, the nervous system, the Internet, and ecosystems.
The nature of complexity would include the phenomena of non-linearity, dynamic interactions, adaptation, self-organisation, evolution, and emergence.
Its consequences in economy and business, is that economy is analysed not necessarily in equilibrium, its decision makers (or agents) are not superrational, the problems they face are not necessarily well-defined, and the economy is not as a perfectly humming machine but as an ever-changing ecology of beliefs, organising principles, and behaviours (Arthur 2021).
We continued from WB Arthur (2021): Complexity economics assumes that agents differ, that they have imperfect information about other agents and must, therefore, try to make sense of the situation they face. Agents explore, react and constantly change their actions and strategies in response to the outcome they mutually create. The resulting outcome may not be in equilibrium and may display patterns and emergent phenomena not visible to equilibrium analysis. The economy becomes something not given and existing but constantly forming from a developing set of actions, strategies and beliefs — something not mechanistic, static, timeless and perfect but organic, always creating itself, alive and full of messy vitality.
So my main message is that a competitive business should not avoid or overcome complexities. Instead, complexities are used or even created as a way to open new opportunities, design new capabilities, and conquering new markets.
For its implication in strategic management, I offer a view from the IEEE to use — in this era — a framework called strategic planning for exponential era (SPX). I explored this framework quite deeply. It is taken from an IEEE book authored by Espindola and Wright (2021), titled The Exponential Era: Strategies to Stay Ahead of the Curve in an Era of Chaotic Changes and Disruptive Forces.
My presentation was followed with a warm discussion with Binus’ lecturers and students on some technological and business aspects of complexity, complex adaptive system, and ecosystem-based business, including its current implementation in Telkom Indonesia. I also offered to continue the discussion using a collaborative framework of IEEE TEMS.
Gerakan nasional Bangga Buatan Indonesia (Gernas BBI) edisi Agustus 2022 dilaksanakan di Provinsi Papua, dengan campaign manager Kemkominfo. Seperti tahun 2021 lalu, Kemkominfo menggelar aktivitas pembinaan UMKM sebelum menyelenggarakan acara perayaan (a.k.a. harvesting). Peran Telkom — selain tentu saja menyediakan infrastruktur, platform, dan layanan digital berkualitas terbaik di dunia (xixixi) — adalah membina para UMKM.
Ini tentu memang bagian dari strategi perusahaan untuk mengembangkan strategi bisnis berbasis ekosistem yang berfokus pada pengembangan ekonomi masyarakat, sesuai panggilan Clayton Christensen dalam The Prosperity Paradox.
Part 2: Kickoff
Kickoff dilaksanakan 14 Juli 2022. Team Telkom tiba di Jayapura 13 Juli 2022 dan mengawali kegiatan dengan koordinasi dengan BRI sebagai pengelola pembinaan UMKM Jayapura (via Rumah BUMN Jayapura). Kegiatan pembinaan telah berlangsung rutin, dan kami memastikan bahwa komersialisasi B2B melalui Padi UMKM telah dijalankan di Jayapura. UMKM binaan RB Jayapura ini diundang juga dalam kickoff BBI Papua.
Kickoff dilaksanakan dalam bentuk digitalk yang menghadirkan PIC dari Kemkominfo, Telkom, dan Bank Indonesia (plus beberapa brand pendukung lain yang cuma hadir secara online). Hadir juga perwakilan UMKM dan komunitas pengembangan UMKM.
Part 3: Merauke
Kegiatan pembinaan UMKM berikutnya dilaksanakan di kota Merauke. Team Telkom mendarat di Merauke (dengan Garuda Jakarta–Jayapura–Merauke) pada 3 Agustus 2022. Kegiatan di hari itu meliputi kunjungan ke Rumah BUMN Merauke yang dikelola oleh Telkom.
Kegiatan pelatihan digelar di Coreine Hotel, dengan konten komersialisasi dengan (sekaligus onboarding di) Padi UMKM, serta pendanaan UMKM yang menghadirkan Pimpinan Cabang Pegadaian Merauke. Kegiatan memakan waktu hampir sehari penuh karena minat yang tinggi dari para UMKM.
Kominfo juga menyelenggarakan Digitalk di Merauke yang menghadirkan Wakil Bupati Merauke, ditambah PIC dari Kemkominfo, Telkom, dan Bank Indonesia (plus beberapa brand pendukung lain yang cuma hadir secara online) — jadi semacam reuni.
Usai Digitalk, kami menyempatkan diri meninjau perbatasan Indonesia dengan Papua Nugini: titik KM0 dari Merauke ke Sabang, kalau kita ikuti arah bumi berputar. Tempatnya di Sota.
Sempat berbincang juga dengan beberapa warga Papua Nugini di balik pagar perbatasan. Anak-anak kecil PNG ini lucu-lucu tapi bandel. Gitu lah.
Part 4: Harvesting
Acara puncak Gernas BBI Papua dilaksanakan tanggal 24 Agustus 2022. Dari Telkom, hadir GM Witel Papua (Pak Agus Widhiarsana) dan team dari RMU, Corcom, dan Synergy; serta tentu dari Telkomsel (GM: Pak Agus Sugiarto). Selain memastikan kelancaran kegiatan (incl infrastruktur) dan turut merayakan kolaborasi pembinaan UMKM, kami juga mengkampanyekan virtual expo.
Pemerintah diwakili Kemkominfo (Deputi Koordinasi Parekraf Kemkomarves, Bapak Odo Manuhutu), Kemkominfo, Kemdagri, etc. Selain BI dan Telkom, brand pendukung lain kini hadir secara onsite juga. Demo virtual expo dilakukan oleh perwakilan dari kementerian-kementerian, dipandu PIC dari Telkom. UMKM yang hadir meliputi UMKM binaan Telkom dan komunitas pembina UMKM lain (incl BI, Pemprov, Pemkab, Dekranas etc).
Intinya, kegiatan-kegiatan di Papua ini sukses, berjalan dengan baik; dan tentu saja memerlukan komitmen, kapabilitas, dan kolaborasi untuk tindak lanjut secara kontinyu.
Lalu kita lanjutkan pekerjaan lain seraya menanti rembang petang saat matahari terbenam; di tepi Teluk Cendrawasih, Jayapura.
Kerajaan Ternate dan Tidore adalah bagian penting dari sejarah Indonesia. Dua kerajaan di dua pulau kecil di barat Pulau Halmahera ini memiliki kekuasaan di nyaris seluruh Indonesia Timur. Ternate menguasai hingga Mindanao, Sulawesi utara dan tenggara, Papua barat, Halmahera utara; sementara Tidore menguasai Halmahera selatan hingga Papua. Bersama Makian dan Moti, wilayah ini dikenal sebagai Moloku Kie Raha (Persatuan Empat Kerajaan) yang kemudian disebut Maluku.
Gunung Tidore tampak dari Pulau Ternate
Maluku, bersama dengan berbagai wilayah nusantara lain, terlibat dalam perdagangan internasional sejak awal milenium pertama. Jalan sutra serta perdagangan lintas Samudera India hingga Yaman, ke negeri Syam, lalu ke Eropa, memiliki ujung timur di kepulauan ini, dengan berbagai rempahnya yang mewarnai budaya dunia. Didudukinya Konstantinopel oleh Kekhalifahan Utsmany mendorong bangsa Eropa mencari jalan ke ujung rantai perdagangan ini, dengan Portugal berlayar jauh ke timur dan Spanyol jauh ke barat, hingga mencapai wilayah Maluku. Sempat Ternate bersekutu dengan Portugal, sementara Tidore bersahabat dengan Spanyol — namun akhirnya semuanya jatuh ke penguasaan keji VOC. Di abad ke-21 ini, kita mendapati bahwa wilayah ini, yang kini dipersatukan dalam Provinsi Maluku Utara, memiliki tingkat ekonomi yang cukup rendah dibandingkan banyak wilayah lain di Indonesia.
The Sultanate of Ternate in the era of Sultan Baabullah.
Aku mendarat dengan GA648 di Sultan Baabullah Airport, Ternate, hari ini pukul 7:45 WIT. Sebetulnya sempat mengharapkan ada waktu untuk diskusi ringkas tentang rencana perluasan program pembinaan UMKM Maluku Utara dengan rekan-rekan Telkom di Ternate dan Halmahera. Telkom telah memiliki UMKM binaan yang produknya dapat diunggulkan, dan aku sudah dapat list-nya dari Bang Lonely Baringin, GM Witel Sulut & Malut — namun seluruh manajemen Telkom di Indonesia bagian Timur sedang menghadiri rakor di Kepulauan Maluku Tengah :).
Sultan Baabulah Airport dengan Latar Gunung Gamalama di Ternate
Sebagai bagian dari misi memperkuat kembali ekonomi wilayah Maluku Utara, khususnya ekonomi UMKM, kami berkunjung ke Ternate dan Sofifi (Ibukota Provinsi Maluku Utara, di Pulau Halmahera). Kementerian Desa PDTT memperoleh tugas sebagai campaign manager Gernas BBI di Maluku Utara, didukung berbagai top brands pendukung BBI, termasuk Telkom. Kegiatan diawali dengan kickoff hari ini, dengan acara puncak bulan September.
Kickoff dilaksanakan di Kantor Gubernur Maluku Utara yang terletak di lereng bukit di Sofifi, Pulau Halmahera. Seluruh rombongan dari Jakarta dan Ternate bertolak dari Pelabuhan Ternate ke Sofifi dengan speed boat dengan waktu ±40 menit.
Kickoff hanya berisi statement tentang visi dan lingkup program, diikuti komitmen para stakeholder program atas aktivitas yang akan dilaksanakan. Sederhana dan efektif. Diskusi selanjutnya dilaksanakan dalam waktu yang tersisa secara informal; baik dengan Kementerian Desa & PDTT sebagai campaign manager, maupun dengan stakeholder lain.
