On Wednesday, we have got the opportunity to get out of the busy streets of Jakarta, by visiting Bandung. Bandung is the third largest city of Indonesia and well known for it’s fashion. During the three hour travel we did see countless hard working Indonesians in the beautiful nature (hills, mountains, rice fields, fresh fruit) we passed by.
Our company visit this day was to Bandung Digital Valley. Actually, it’s a incubator from Telekom Indonesia which is the largest telecommunications services company in Indonesia (huge!). BDV provides start-ups the opportunity to launch a product. If the company can provide prove that it works hard to try to make the product work (according to the guidelines from BDV), then BDV takes care of the risks when something goes wrong. Also, they provides large amounts of money (~20.000 euro’s). Amazing was that we’ve got an insight in one of the projects by Telekom Indonesia. Again, smart city is an hot topic here. For example, the governor is able to see the happiness in any part of town, based on social media!
Photo session in BDV
During the afternoon we visited some outer part of town. People did not see many “bule” (foreigners) there, some there were many spontaneous photo moments!