with the power of the Internet, these start-ups seeking to influence the Indonesian academic and change the way people approach learning in the archipelago.
education industry in Indonesia is huge. According to former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, there are about 50 million students, 3 million teachers, and 200,000 schools in the archipelago. The size of Indonesia's population of 250 million is an important part of what makes an attractive market for start-ups. It is also safe to say that the potential of products innovative education technology has not gone unnoticed in recent years.
With the power of the Internet, Indonesia of technology start-ups looking to make things happen in the learning sector and to change the status quo in the local education sector the best. In no particular order, here are five technology startups that aim to solve problems in the education sector in Indonesia.
HarukaEdu
HarukaEdu is an online learning platform for higher education in Indonesia. The company allows Indonesians earn degrees online, and helps colleges and universities to create online degree programs from scratch.
Recently, starting in partnership with the London School of Public Relations and University Wiraswasta Indonesia in Jakarta to offer an online degree in education and communication management. The start-up also offers technological entrepreneurship courses online Indonesia, and plans to incorporate several other certification programs web-based in the future.
Co-founded by director Jakarta Founder Institute Novistiar Rustandi in February 2013, HarukaEdu monetizes through a revenue sharing system with its university partners. In November, the startup has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A funding from CyberAgent Ventures, a Japanese technology investment company well known with an office in Jakarta.
RuangGuru
RuangGuru has already signed more than 8,500 tutors, and it takes a 20 percent commission on each transaction online. To avoid disintermediation and backdoor transactions (ie teachers to get money directly from students without using the escrow service of the site), RuangGuru offers some value-added services as incentives for users to continue to use the site. One of them is the provision of replacement guardian when the guardian of a normal client is unavailable.
The start-up was founded in April 2013 by Belva Devara and Iman Usman, two Indonesians working on master's degrees in the US when they came up with the idea. In 2014, RuangGuru raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from East Ventures of Singapore, a venture capital company is also investing aggressively in Indonesian companies.
Zenius
This is the earliest start-up on this list. Founded in July 2007 by teachers and Sabda P.S. Medy SUHARTA, Zenius offers e-learning services in Indonesia in the form of educational videos, distributed online and offline. Offline, the videos are sold as CDs and DVDs. The company also runs a tuition center in Jakarta offline.
Zenius claims to have more than 33,000 videos, which together earned over 30 million views. The company also has 1,500 worksheets, which aggregately been downloaded over 2.7 million times. The CEO of the company told local Tech Asia tech media Zenius generated $ 446,000 in income between June 2013 and June 2014. In addition to monetizing via CD and DVD sales, Zenius also sells good and premium members for video access. The company has not received foreign investment.
Brainly
Founded in September 2009 by a team of serial entrepreneurs named Michal Borkowski, Lukasz Haluch and Tomasz Kraus, this Poland-based startup claim have 40 million unique users each month worldwide . In Indonesia, Brainly claims to have more than 6 million users, with about 650,000 active on the site each month.
Brainly has not monetize its platform. Impressively, the start-up was able to raise US $ 9.5 million to date from a number of investors, including US-based General Catalyst Partners and nine points in the capital of the Germany.
Quipper school
With Quipper school, teachers can create educational content and assign tasks to students in an online classroom. Moreover, students can complete assignments and pass through the educational content with the gamification system start-up. The site turns learning into a game by allowing students to earn points for each activity, and then they can spend these points on things like background themes and digital interface.
Quipper School operates in several countries, one of which is Indonesia. The start-up has 50,000 registered teachers and 250,000 students in 10,000 schools across the country. About 60 percent of school Quipper users can be considered active each month. Its services are always free to use Indonesia. In the future, the startup plans to introduce the premium paid content such as online tutoring and National Test exercises.
This education technology startup based in London, was founded in December 2010 by entrepreneur Masa Watanabe. Before Quipper, Watanabe also founded the famous Japanese game company DeNA, which is now a publicly traded company. Quipper raised more than US $ 10 million from a group of investors that includes Globis Capital Partners and Atomico UK Japan.