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Industry leaders discuss digital revolution in Jakarta
Thirty business leaders from the industrial sector -- including education, healthcare, financial services and agriculture -- gathered at a power breakfast meeting to explore challenges and opportunities brought about by the digital revolution.
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Thirty business leaders from the industrial sector -- including education, healthcare, financial services and agriculture -- gathered at a power breakfast meeting to explore challenges and opportunities brought about by the digital revolution.
The meeting, which was organized by The Jakarta Post and technology company PT Epson Indonesia at the Ritz-Carlton Pacific Place in Jakarta on Tuesday, was led by Japan’s Seiko Epson Corporation.
Research, Technology and Higher Education Ministry’s Innovation Strengthening Director General Jumain Appe said it was important for business players across all sectors to keep up with the latest innovations and changes brought about by the digital revolution.
“We have to come up with more digital applications that can be used to solve society’s problems so that Indonesia remains highly competitive in terms of global technological innovations,” Appe said in his keynote speech.
Social entrepreneur Rene Suhardono said the development of digital applications in Indonesia had greatly impacted society, citing ride-hailing application Go-Jek as an example.
“When Go-Jek first started about six years ago, it employed only six drivers. Within six years, it has expanded to 510,000 drivers [in terms of job absorption],” he said, adding that big taxi companies in Indonesia have also formed partnerships with certain ride-hailing applications to keep up with the changing times to survive.
Participants at meeting took turns to present the opportunities and challenges brought about by the digital revolution to their respective industrial sectors.
Siloam Hospitals vice president director Caroline Riady, for instance, said the healthcare industry needed to develop technology that could support long distance diagnostics, especially on certain Indonesian islands that might not necessarily have access to medical specialists.
She added that certain outdoor patient treatments could also be conducted online to save time.
“We are also constantly searching for technology innovations that can increase diagnostics precision,” she said during a sharing session.
Golden Agri-Resources Ltd’s sustainability and strategic stakeholder engagement managing director, Agus Purnomo, said the agricultural sector would benefit greatly from artificial intelligence technology that would help farmers use fertilizer in precise quantities to increase harvest quality.
PT Epson Indonesia -- which used the power breakfast meeting to announce its commitment to strengthen its business-to-business (B2B) segment especially in inkjet printer, hardware as well as robotic innovation -- also outlined technological solutions that could help the two industrial sectors to boost efficiency.
The company, for instance, offered a QR-code wristband to patients undergoing treatment in hospitals. After being scanned, the QR-code gives medical workers information about the patient’s illness and most recent treatment status to shorten examination time.
A similar QR-code solution was also offered to agricultural companies to help farmers scan crops to provide plantation supervisors with the latest information about the status of their crops’ health.
“This helps plantation supervisors to save time because they don’t have to inspect thousands of trees; they can empower the farmers to do so,” PT Epson Indonesia B2B head Andryanto C. Wijaya said.
