Outline

Indonesia has the world’s fourth largest education system but low literacy rates prevail due to the country’s sizeable rural population, lack of infrastructure, qualified trainers and funding among some of the challenges that are slowing down its development.

On the upside, Indonesia has one of the highest internet penetration rates in the world. As the number of Covid cases continues to rise, Indonesia’s 60 million students are forced to adapt to remote learning. This accelerates the development and adoption of EdTech solutions which now have the opportunity to grow in an extremely large market and help students to access high-quality education from anywhere in the country.

Dita Aisyah is the Co-Founder of Binar Academy, an end to end platform for managing talent for the digital economy, providing an integrated ecosystem comprising online education, community and job placement from entry level to senior professionals. Binar uses innovative learning experiences, a supportive community and job advancement opportunities to build digital leaders for the future.  

In our next webinar, she’ll share about her personal experience starting an EdTech company in Indonesia, including the challenges and the incredible opportunities to combine business growth and social good on a large scale.

About the Speaker

Dita Aisyah, Co-Founder, Binar Academy

Dita returned to Indonesia from the U.S. and had to adapt not just to the culture but also in her work where she made the transition from working in politics to being a marketing manager of its beauty on demand service (go-glam) at GO-JEK. It was there where she met Alamanda Shantika and Seto Lareno, her fellow co-founders of Binar Academy.

Alamanda's vision of digitising Indonesia strongly resonated with Dita and together they established Binar Academy in 2017, opening schools in Yogyakarta, BSD and Batam. With Binar Academy, the trio of co-founders are driven to take bigger steps in giving back to Indonesia, with the advance in technology ecosystems, by providing practical knowledge and guidance to collaborate in the world of millennials.