Can Indonesia plug its tech talent gap to keep its digital economy growing?

Indonesia

12 min read

Mar 18, 2021

By Putu Agung Wija Putera

By Qu Sihan ©CompassList

Local institutions are stepping up to boost tech skills among students and jobseekers, as the government opens the way for more foreign talent joining startups

In 2016, Nadiem Makarim, co-founder and then CEO of Gojek, Indonesia’s first and biggest unicorn, flagged the shortage of local skilled tech workers that could help companies like his scale up their tech infrastructure. “If you want to scale [in Indonesia], you need an army of programmers to come in and coach our engineers directly,” Makarim told a Google Indonesia panel.
Five years on, the scarcity of tech talent in Indonesia – Southeast Asia’s largest digital economy, housing one of the world’s biggest and fastest-growing middle class – is still a pressing issue. According to Minister of...

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