Endgame with Gita Wirjawan - Aldi Haryopratomo: Indonesia Mapan & Mendunia Lewat Kolektivisme
Episode Date: May 19, 2021Pendiri Mapan, Aldi Haryopratomo, bercerita tentang mimpinya menciptakan nilai tambah bagi orang banyak dan mendorong ekosistem kewirausahaan dan budaya kolektivisme sebagai fondasi yang d...apat membawa Indonesia menjadi kekuatan ekonomi global. Dari keluarga Mapan untuk Indonesia.
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If we can be a good a new country
but we're here,
but we're having the identity of our own
our country, we're here,
that's from the world,
it's not to be from our culture we can't be from outside.
This is end game.
You're in time.
We're coming Aldi Harriopratomo,
founder of Mappan.
Aldi, thanks.
You can't come to our acara our
Thank you,
You're a very successful entrepreneur.
But many who are not know that successan is a core of
many of the big of the gagalance.
I want to hear of your story, from the
from where, school,
and where,
and then,
where, after school,
and then,
we'll go about
about the next to the next
about in 2004,
so.
Okay,
so.
So,
so I'm so,
I'm very in
in the complex Bina Marga,
so complex that complex of the government
which is around
land and sahuasahua.
Taun?
I was born in 1980.
Okay.
Now,
Bapac my guy,
the employee,
he worked in
Department of Perjian Umum.
And from,
from the little,
you know,
I was,
he was born,
So I'm going to the deserts, literally, I'm like jeep, yeah.
So I'm still like off-road.
Okay.
Or skateboard, you guys.
Okay, skateboard, yeah.
Yeah, I'm just like, I just like, you know, to come on the back on the
you're going to come on.
And then, yeah.
And then, yeah, when I was like, when I was like,
why do you, like, what's like,
people are like playing ball or what,
I'm, I'd like to be able to getterer,
to get in the same to go to the survey,
but I'm going to go through the way,
but I'm going to say,
whatever that's been able to be able to be able to
give access to the person that's most
because,
because,
that person will be sure,
and what's the name is,
the rejeky, and then,
he did that with Rhodes,
and so I like to think that
so I'm going to live that I always
to the people who need to get up.
So, where?
In the Jakarta?
In Jakarta, in the SMPA's Pangolidulhur.
Okay.
One of alma mater.
I'm a dropout.
It's okay.
I also gottick a Sema to the Sema 8.
Why?
Not to PL again?
Well, one, more more.
which is a lot of the other things.
I wanted to experience different things.
So, from the kids'O.L.
S.M.P.L., S.M.A.L.,
so I want to have a diverse group of friends.
And, as a cacallel,
that's three-ganty-a-kot.
If 8, it's just a 1.
And no, there's a co-ceweigh-a-L.
And no, no, there's a ceweaneta with Hanur.
So, it makes up for it.
So I did that.
And my mom, that's a docent, architect.
architect, I learned from my mom,
don't chase money, because the money,
because of the money can't even when I'm going to get from her.
Wow.
I read about three or four books a month.
Okay.
So, universities in other-negrary?
University in Purdue, yeah.
So at that, at all of course, at once I'm always an out-one-out-out-out-out,
SM-A-N, to M-P-T-N,
E.
It's like U.I.
Everybody assumed that,
so, people are still thinking I'm like
I'm not going to be
because there's an Ateb,
but I always wanted to do something different.
So I look for a scholarship to go to the US.
Dama'u was really,
I didn't know actually which schools were good.
So I just went to,
there's name Aminev,
it's the institution for education.
And I just took the top 10 engineering schools
for my major, which is computer engineering
and just applied.
That's how much I didn't know.
Like, I know now I would have to other schools
schools that may be easier to get in.
It's a good, but it's good, but too, but too, but it's good.
I think I got a really good experience of really learning what it feels like to be an outsider.
Okay.
And what the independence that you get by going to school alone,
and in a place where you can't necessarily afford it.
I felt I was always struggling.
Honestly, college was very difficult for me.
I had to work, I think, 20 hours a week at least.
Worker part-time?
Okay.
20 hours a week.
Yeah, not jave-jave-jave-l, like with my experience.
Yeah.
And then I had to take a break in between semester.
So I would go to school for a semester, and I would work for a semester.
So I would work for first job actually, I was working for a commons,
which is an engine company.
And I was driving a semi-tachn-18-wheeler.
No kidding.
Yeah, yeah.
That's, kind, same is a license.
Bidda.
My job was a programmerer, I was a computer engineer.
And they wanted somebody to do a simulation of the program of the truck going.
So they told me how to drive a truck.
Wow.
So I understood really the grassroots culture of America.
Like I went to Katlynburg, Tennessee to dollywood,
like, to dollywood, like that.
So it was...
It's very much, it's really,
and you learned to respect different cultures, right?
different cultures, right? And you learn to struggle.
Abuse, I was a company
at a striker medical company
they made a medical device company
they make surgery tools and everything.
I was working in the factory, helping them build
Bluetooth devices for six months as an intern.
So, did really,
a lot of assortment of jobs,
just to get by, like.
Then, lulus,
then, then,
Or did you or like that?
I was like to do.
Okay.
...to...
...the American?
Yeah, America.
Yeah, okay.
So, after lulose, I considered what I wanted to do.
And I really wanted to be in San Francisco.
So, really, really, I really...
I don't blame you.
Huh?
I don't blame you.
Yeah.
I mean, it's, it's kind of...
...and I felt, okay, that I want...
I want, I want, I want...
...and, I really, what, yeah...
...enable me to see, like,
different things. I like to explore. I'm going to
to look adventure, and I'm interestingly, like I never thought that Ernst
Nyang would be a firm that would be adventurous. But they have one division,
the name's security and technology solutions. So it was a white hacking. So our
job was to hack or penetrate security security from the biggest banks and the
biggest companies in that in the region. And it was really fun. I learned a lot in
in that job. But I think after about about about about
about about about about the biggest,
the biggest, most pivotal moment in my life when I had moved from Ernst & Young
to a really, really small startup, which is called Kiva.
Okay, I heard about this.
Tell us, how about.
So,
So, at that, at Ernst & Young, I've already gottle.
I've gottle, I've been going to make something
something that's different.
So, so it's a different from the
competition.
And our project, it was a group
SMS software.
Gottenroiang it, it makes people closer.
You see a theme here,
that's a sense of community is always
that.
My first idea was that,
we're going to start up was that,
we're going to start off in
Stanford Businessman Competition.
And across the table,
there's a person,
there's a person,
And when I got pitch is better than ours,
that's,
so they're picture of our,
who's like to buy a pamping.
Orang this is but to $200.
How can he can raise $200?
Diffasang photoshop,
put it's put on the story and be perbolehackan
people from America to give them
pinjama,
not donations,
not each one of dollars,
20 people, call it's
$10,000, wow.
When I saw that,
that's really,
really game-changing
so, so,
so, capital flowing
from a country
to a country that
needs to be
what my dad
would have wanted
me to do,
right?
So, I'm,
I'm, I'm,
and then,
wow, well,
if you can't beat them,
join them, right?
So, I went
to the can't
the, can't,
the roomaner,
maybe not,
even in a really rinketink area in mission,
really ghetto,
gotto, and I talked,
and I told them, hey, I'm going to join.
Like, how do I help?
And at the time, Ernst & Yang had a program
if, if we're just for non-profit,
you can do like two days in non-profit
or three three days in non-profit,
and two days in Earns & Young,
as part of their pro bono program, right?
So, I did it.
And...
Wow.
I was so lucky because the founder is the
founder is the product manager,
the PEPL, Pemal Shah.
I just talked to him actually like a month ago.
We recorded a session about all these early founders.
He's a big dude now.
So are you.
He's super, yeah, he's super famous.
And we had somebody from Google who was employed
like with number 100 or something, very early.
So the place was just filled with talent.
And because of PayPal Mafia, I got to meet a lot of other people who were in the PayPal Mafia.
There are, there were a lot of time.
At least, when I was in front of four.
Wow.
So, there's four people, I'm one other.
One other, named Ben Elberger.
Ben Elberger, who's from me from me from me, like,
like, I'm still more than the other's already independently wealthy.
We were like the struggling idealist.
And you know what?
Ben ended up becoming my partner in every business that I started.
No kidding.
Yeah.
Until today.
Him and I have been working together for 16 years.
With a gap when I was in school.
But yeah.
So that decision to leave my comfortable job.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, yeah.
Named, yeah.
I'm going to tell you, like,
gajuny-notes, okay.
I had a nice apartment,
expense account, everything.
And my parents were like,
why are you're why why why why why why profit
but man it was worth it the people that
the first batch the first 10 people in kiva ended up
building some of the world's best fintech companies actually
because we're probably the first
in pirtipel landing in the universe we're communicating
we're communicating like this is how it works
it was so cutting edge right it was so different
And it's what you could feel the pepals.
And people pepals just like,
like this like pepal just like that's the growth of Kiva.
And then yeah, I did that.
I was in San Francisco for a while.
My role was to help,
when you have that smaller team,
we do, we can do everything, right?
But then the turning point after that,
after that,
to me, to make up to Asia-Tengara.
Mom and Dad?
Or?
No, actually, nothing.
It was actually a movie.
So, what?
Motorcycle Diaries, Che Guevara.
Okay.
So, so the story is it in Kiva, it's interesting.
We have a problem that's interesting, because there,
is it's all, like, I'm, like,
We're like that's always focused on the people who need
need to put up to TV we've got to bea BS with Oprah Oprah Winfrey with
Andrea Agassi that's who's silo.
Now that, we're, we're kind of beckon-buckin-magnet, but in Asia-Tengara, in Africa,
no-a-known, conno-can.
On the website we've said, I'm going to say,
I'm going to give you want, we're too much,
Many of the people who's going to give money.
Like, as a lot, like, oh my God, that's really.
Why?
And then I read a book,
book of Professor Yunus, about banker for the poor,
and, that's the film,
the film, which is the most,
motorcycle diaries.
That's Cagua Farah,
around America's Latin,
with motor, to learn, understand the community.
So, like, literally the next day, I,
I, to the boss, see Pramol,
Boss,
I'm going to look at the Kiva.
But we're going to bea
not going to be it's okay.
Whatever you can afford,
later I'll live in a tenta with a motor,
just like, I'll find some other money,
like, okay, sure.
How long do you want to do it?
Six months?
Okay, okay, and I had to find other sources of money, right?
And because it just like, I think it was like,
maybe like, budget, not yet up to $1,000 from Kiva.
Okay, how do I find more money?
Indonesia's suba, right?
2004.
I read an article in the Walsh's journal.
There was a McKinsey partner.
And in his name was, I literally called every combination of his email
to be able to his contact.
And like, talk to everybody, and finally he replied to one of them.
You'll see a theme.
I do this a lot, actually.
Just randomly email people 40 times until there is one.
And yeah, and he also,
If you can't get a.C.
You can't get akeh,
to help Kiva in Aceh,
and in the area that's it.
So yeah, I left my cushy consulting job in San Francisco
to go around Southeast Asia,
on a motor, knocking door to door
from Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia.
Selama six-month?
No, actually, 18-bunuch.
Wow.
But, yeah, but, yeah,
But in Ache, back again to Vietnam, to Ace.
I didn't do it continuously like ECE, I was viral,
but it's, then after a month in the land,
it's a back on, but...
Sondyrieve?
...withsendary, or with companions, or...?
...Sendary.
...withity in the country,
there's a telegram, like,
Kiva, many life,
when we were in a village,
in Vietnam, yeah, and I would ask,
at this from where,
I'd get a pinjama from the institution.
I'd say, I bought laptop,
I give them the laptop.
If you put your picture here, you can actually get money from the US.
They can't know the internet, they would pick up the laptop and shake it.
Where's the money?
I had to explain everything.
Actually, this is what I learned about the power of women.
Until today, I'm really advocate for female entrepreneurship.
Because I'm really in microfinance bank in Vietnam, in Indonesia,
where it's all women.
And they're very strong and they're actually are the motorists.
they are the motor for the community.
And yeah, and I did that for a while.
And that's my crash course in business and fintech.
So, you have to beaunding, the foundation is there.
Because, maybe, there's more than,
it is 1,000 microfinance bank
that I'm doing diligence.
And as a computer engineer who can't get finance,
you have to know it, right, how to read the balance sheet,
how to manage a loan.
And that's why, if you ask me,
am I a payment guy or lending guy?
more of a lending guy, because a different mindset.
That's a different mindset.
Because I learned it the hard way, like Kiva, if the money not in the
pinjemean and then did pay, Kiva, reputational, right?
So it's my job to do it.
It was really fun.
Seeing these microfinance banks go online, and seeing the website,
and then, malmallem we upload the file,
gnazarin the file, I made a little code how to help them compress files.
It was really, really, yeah.
And it was the real, I don't know, millions of people that we helped get access to funding
with my little motorcycle adventure.
Wow.
So that was a really interesting part of my life.
It was like my first kind of...
You were before Ambleas II, before BCG also.
What turned you back to school?
Oh, well, actually first of all, I needed to get married.
So Kiva needed, was not necessarily the, what, yeah,
not the most for the most of myrtua, right?
Because, because she was like this, you know.
The in Indonesia, or what?
In Singapore.
She was in Singapore, Jaby Morgan in Singapore.
I used to be there, you know?
Yeah, I used to run it, right?
And so she used to, like, you know, be in the trading floor in Singapore.
Basically, she was, career-wise,
he had got to talk to Hong Kong,
to transport, moving up in the world, right?
And here is me, this little hippie guy,
with laptop with motorway, with the work
if they had a foresight when she saw you.
How do you explain to your in-laws?
What do you do?
I'm, cliling, sir, cliling.
It's easy. Just tell them positive present value.
So, yeah, and then, so I had to get a real job.
And so I applied to BCG.
B.
B. B. B.C.G.
next billion users and it was focused on the last in billion.
And I got it.
Actually, I got in as a post-MBA consultant.
Oh, because I have a penalom of my project
was really focused on helping big companies
access the base of the pyramid.
And yeah, so then I was in the BCG,
maybe one, I haven't really actually had a...
Pasta S2?
No, past Kiva.
So, right,
Right.
Right to get married.
I have got bills to pay, got an in-laws to impress.
My in-laws were from IBM, so they're used to this, like, thing.
My parents, actually,
I'm happy.
The child, they've had a job that's a good one,
just one of the BSIG,
already making company,
make mappar.
You know, I almost worked at B.
You did?
Yeah, they made enough.
But I, I don't know what that,
It's a good banking just a good company.
It's a lot of the people.
I learned a lot of the B.C.G.
Then, to S2, Kameri, after B.C.g.
After B.C.G.
No, actually, I started my company first.
You're a serial entrepreneur, man.
Yeah, I am.
So I started my company first.
So, at B.G I did it on the side.
So, I did it on the side.
I'm actually my company.
Professor Yunus actually helped.
So, when I was in BCG, I'm going to look at
that in Indonesia, that I was studying this thing called community.
And I always felt that community is under leverage.
Because, actually, in each desa, not just in Indonesia,
when I was in Pakistan, I saw, wow,
the center of community is so strong.
In Pakistan, it's used for money transfer,
for Hawala, the name of it.
So, because there's community leader who we're percaya,
He made up the central bank for each of the
desa. I was studying the center of community,
I thought the best leader,
the best thought leader for community is Muhammad Hata.
He said that Sanubari Indonesia is full with a
with a rasa,
that'sa of the same thing that can't
be seen in the community
with the other dyesa,
with the work abakti, arisen, gottong, rotong.
powerful, and it's very human.
And, that's the economy we're on the world,
which is actually from him.
So I thought then,
if Indonesia wants to make a business
that can be a scale international,
and if we want to be in Indonesia
but still Indonesia,
we have focused to build
a organization
that can use
I'm not only making that's a lot of
for something that's more than what's
an idea of community to create positive economic value.
So that when our country becomes wealthy,
we don't forget our roots, we don't become an individualist country.
And so that's where I founded Mappan.
And the thesis was actually interesting.
I was a translator for Professor Yunus.
He was at that to here, he had training microfinance.
I was a volunteer.
I remember.
Yeah, I remember.
In 2008.
He's here at the point.
I'm not quite,
I've got to be in the English,
well, like, so.
So, I'm going to be able to be
so,
so I'm going to be three days,
and the last day he'd come.
I'm going to say,
Professor,
Markofinance is good,
but I've been around,
I've been seen
almost 1,000 microfinance banks,
and it's not enough.
You need more than just giving a loan.
You need to give them access to
goods, in Bangladesh, in Bangladesh, in Bangladesh, they have built all of that.
In Bangladesh, they have put up a brand here.
I said, why don't you open a brand here?
And instead, he actually said, well, why don't you open your own company and do it here?
I'll help you find the money.
Oh, kaget, can.
I'm from NGO back.
Kiva, is an NGO background.
So I was like, at the time for me was evil.
Right?
At the time, right, I was like, yeah.
And then my first angel investment came from Grameen.
Wow.
I met a person.
There was somebody from the U.S. name, Sean, who was my co-founder from Mappan.
He was building a project to help women share a phone.
To help share a phone and sell top-up to each other.
Because at the time, top-up was still physical.
And so he wanted to help women give credit to each other in the form of top-up, which is easy.
And they did this in Bangladesh.
And he said, yeah, let's do it together.
So that's how Mappan was founded.
It was, again, again, a random encounter with a person,
and explaining what I believe in.
So, yeah, that's how you started.
But then, then, at some point,
can't get enough enough of the money.
And I'm not from a family
who can't invest.
In Indonesia, unless you come from a family,
you don't know, right?
So I...
I...
I...
...n't...
...no, I'm...
...no...
to Harvard or to Stanford. So I applied, I got in. And then I got a call and I said,
oh yeah, oh yeah, how much does it cost? I forgot. I didn't, I didn't think about it. And I was like,
oh, when they told me the amount, I was like, oh, gaggagal, though, not
I was already past the level. But then, I did you want to go to school? You already
passed the level for school. Okay, shit. And thankfully, I told Harvard I got a scholarship
at another school, and Harvard said, okay, fine, fine, we'll match you. So,
I got a scholarship from Harvard to go to go to Harvard to go to
to school, so I went to and I'm going to use going to go to school
to go to school, so I went to school and I did that, I did exactly that.
I won the Harvard Social Enterprise competition that year.
Wow.
And I met Pierre Omidyar's investment manager.
Peer Omidyar, that's founder of eBay.
him and another person from Patamara who invests in the microfinance bank in India
they became my first investors along with Paddy Rahmat and Patrick.
Because they're going to come from conference.
Again, I bug the person, please invest in my company.
I'm just very persistent.
Wow.
Locked out.
Yeah.
I have so many lucky moments in life.
I don't know.
It's just...
Because I'm just...
because of some things that people maybe not,
yeah, maybe there's not, like, who's not there maluling it's just.
Yeah.
And then, fast forward.
Yeah.
Mappan, can, we're great enough.
Al-hmm, yeah, well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's the moment, there, the story, there, the,
yeah, who, who's kind of the okay, okay, okay, okay, just.
Oh, ad-d-do.
When I'm from the first, yeah, what, yeah,
We want to build software
first, get ridgut the first, the most of the worst.
Awal, if we recruit people,
for tech startup,
in 2009, 2010, is nearly impossible,
because everyone wants to work in the companies
termed.
And then the second,
and then,
you're doing the country,
too, wow,
It's expensive, because it's expensive.
even though we had to rinkid-dust,
the top of jobol, and the server's in the banjured in the air.
And we had to redo everything.
Wow, it was such a struggle.
And when they were, who are you?
I felt like, at least Kiva is an American,
text out of America, there's more credibility.
I don't know, that perception is too better,
but if people's an Indonesian,
oh, this is this a scam or whatnot, right?
It was very hard in the beginning.
and convincing people to join, convincing
to make upbun to gawing, not gampang.
And even for a few years, it's still too,
because it's still still very slow.
Even when we're going to,
sometimes, we're ahead of our time, from the sisi-regulasi,
so our product that, maybe,
that's made, that's been made,
and, actually, it was in that moment
when Mappan really had an inflection point.
when we're going to getta-jutor,
so we've got to get good,
you've got to do high-nest-services,
and then we had to shut down that business
for regulatory reasons,
how long?
Forever.
We just couldn't do it.
Okay, wow.
And so we had to find a new model.
Okay.
This is when...
Another person changed my life,
the name is Teh Ayat.
Who that?
Ketu-Taharanan-Pretama.
So, I was...
Right, right in the community,
for the different things of digital, right?
And financial service,
we're going to be a regulatory reason,
and we're going to Cilegon,
in the desa' in the area, atop up the buchet,
he, had to have a warring
that in the front of schoolhan.
And,
usually, the parents, nitip the other to
because, sore-sook,
because, he's clear that if he's been
by the community.
Now, and then,
it's really,
he's,
like,
so I'm going to be
so,
what I'm going to,
and then,
but then,
and then,
then,
and you're,
sad,
is,
people,
people,
people, who,
people,
that's allude,
that's,
there,
must be nular,
, there,
What?
I said, hey, I was, I was therein'i digital.
Why do you know how much?
Oh, this, man.
In here, it's been there,
when we're going to make make up to eat,
that the masack the other thanthian.
Ah, how much?
Because pancy is mahal.
Pancy is that in Jakarta, the price of $250,000,
in there, it can be able to $600,000 because you're chill.
Wow.
So he's the payer $100,000 for six-month.
So six-bunas,
it's about about half-bucked-a-half-bagnan.
Because risked also for the gasekhanes-a-lis-a-basket.
Maybe if Ms. Ali, it's got to the price moreh,
dot-tok, talk.
And the fabric-n't,
it's, at least $150,000.
I mean, there's $100,000,
must be margin, like.
Okay, we shall, we'll tell,
let's-lap, if the hargaguen't?
If it's $250,000, can't?
I'm not so much more so much more so
600,000 is the sameahed, too, Teh, you know?
Oh, no, not?
Not to have to cicil,
my business just shut down,
how can't you guys just down,
how can't you guys in a business
in the damang-ayam, it's there areisan,
there's an arisen,
boulanan, and then,
maybe to be can't just be it'sanin barangue.
So, at this point, my investors were super concerned, right?
right? Like, like, my business just, I just raised some money, right?
And they're like, what's already going to do?
This?
This is what?
This is 2013.
Okay.
Okay.
And then my investors flew in from America.
Just to see, like, is this Aldi going to actually make it?
So, I'm going to be able to actually make it, so.
So, I'm going to be a bay desa desa in the desert tamangayam, in the pinkir-pankai.
Not, not.
Not, no, not.
Not bad.
Cuts.
Just, it's.
I'ma Panci,
I brought a rascuquer,
about a small place,
where they're cumpur,
they're cominggian.
It's every day rabo,
jambu, from gung,
to come to come to.
And then,
I came to come acci.
Pagy, what about?
Today, I want to buy pancy,
teflon.
I'm not even,
cosso,
kosok,
here, there,
red, redang,
s, mules,
mousse,
you.
Who, who,
people, who,
who's up the water panes, oh, who's got to make up the gas
the up there's going to run up, and allangies, and then
if you're going to keep a coal-litric,
no, no, but we're going to be able to make up to make a gas
more so, I was the salesman, like the...
And this is all on video, by the way,
because my investors were there, right?
And, and, and, and,
at the end, at the end of the meeting,
the day of the first one,
the a bums of the bribu-ebus-u-striced,
That's $250, they're patung at one,
and they're each, masing $50,000.
Then there's, like,
like, it's still, still kept making sopherner.
Put the name in glass,
and they're taking, one of the last,
the one, one, that, brought the pancy.
So we changed the game.
Instead of having to take credit,
or to buy it by the cash,
they're collective.
Wow.
Gotung, royong, $50,000 per-bun,
then, then, gantyanty can't get the pancy it.
And because they have a lot of the same
They're the other than they're not there's what I think is so amazing.
The genuine happiness that I saw that day, wow, there's something here.
Talk about that culture.
So, I think I've been to a lot of villages in Indonesia, in the other than where.
And in this, the, the, the, the, is the more than your next of kin.
So, there'sa in the Kaka,
there'shawarison,
there's a Ketha,
or there's a mannedu,
or a Ustatt.
That's,
they're really,
people who are really
more than
some government or commercial reasons.
So, they're genuine,
and even,
and even,
even,
if there's many,
we're so close,
we're so close.
So now in RTAQU, in Bari to,
every month.
These kinds of things are foreign for people in the other
country.
And I'm also, if Indonesia is
to still Indonesia,
and to still be toleranty,
because tolerance also from from
because we have a
and there's a lot
and the power of the
power of there, because
the responsibility is important.
If we, if we can be a way
in a big of a lot of our own.
It's about our identity of our own.
Because collectivism is foundation
from why Indonesia
that's all of the 1,000 of these
with a lot of different
with different,
with different, with different,
because we believe in this unity
that same is the same is the
of the collectiveism.
And I felt that if I were to start a company, right,
the first company that can make
the foundation of Indonesia to come-maju
is a company that's a company
that's a different
collective.
And Arisan
is manifestation of the
of a community
there's in the
there's a country
there,
in the country
in China, there's
there,
and in here,
there's not
there.
It's long,
the amount of,
Because you trust them, you want to help them.
And I feel like we're...
Sometimes, we're...
Sometimes we're trying to make it up.
We're going to bring it here.
But...
...coran originality.
Yeah.
This, we've got a buddhae-buday that's
like Arisae-taddy, like we built a startup based on
a...
...aswatra will change the way people think about it.
If you think about it, right,
the country...
...the people are the company that's been the
always has all about the world.
Hollywood, America is all about showing off, right?
And so Hollywood, of course, it's going to be in the US.
Toyota, the Japanese, it's very efficient.
Wow, that's manufacturing yeah Toyota.
Just in time, Kaisen, like,
it's like, from there.
Germany is all about craftsmanship, right?
So, many of the companies like Bosch,
who's, wow, if B.M.B.M.A.
is very, from Germany,
if you can have a company that's a world,
must be from our culture we can't from outside.
And that's why I felt
it's from from collectivism.
How can it can be able to be
for the importance of our
to make up to increase inoclution?
More than what we've seen
over here, that's really,
so this is interesting.
So this is actually why I ended up joining Gopé.
Because collectivism,
can, I'ma,
much to focus to men,
to be the way to help them, so long as there's
no matter the ground to go to the world has to flow right?
And so one of the things that, so Nadim and I,
can school together.
Nadim actually was an intern in Mappan.
Well, you probably forgot.
The both of you came to my office long time ago.
Oh, that's right, yeah, it was a long time ago, yeah, remember.
When I was about that short.
Nadim was an intern at the time.
You're right.
Yeah.
And...
So, he had ambition in the car...
...and
...and driver OJek, that's more
like,
I was in the village and Ibu-ibu-ibu,
so I thought if you connect the two,
you make the family earn more.
And then what was missing was
infrastructure our,
to connect the pay-and-it-as-allat-allat-E-C-tossed
that's allat-a-cally,
cost you.
In order, to make-each-concac-inclusion
barrier of the
has to beaubahed
infrastructure the other
and so,
when we're given
to come in a lot of it was
ambitious,
buy three companies, so ambitious,
buy three companies in merger,
and then it's just 20 people,
and transaction,
maybe not even to get 1,000,
so, like,
but I didn't,
because,
with Gopin'i this,
so MAPAN,
it's been a foundation for culture
in mass.
But for this can't move,
we have infrastructure that can connect them to the other.
So, GoPAY, to be in fact,
fintech, at the end up in the way,
that we had to build,
so that all this wealth from this e-commerce,
from ride-hilling,
this can trickle down.
Like, driver,
misal the room
with,
every day,
balance is did did not.
And so much more than
they can't buyer arisans and
get paid with using gopé.
And that's all
we're doing with
we're using machine EDC
to QR.
Wow.
And that's why we were the first
in Indonesia to launching QR.
At that, comitator we still
still use EDC,
so I'm like, you know what,
I'd rather be a little bit late,
but we do it right.
And, first,
For six months, oh, why are you not launching,
this, we're going to be behind.
Everybody was like, oh, all the malls,
we're still commotitor, we said, don't worry.
In the month, we're from 1,000
to a $1,000 transactions a day.
Because we had the right product.
And now, that Gopé,
can, it's pretty, in many,
that, al-hmu-a-oh-oh-oh.
I feel, when I was in June 21st,
to a town in Chioma,
and she's nother way she's
she's just so different from like three years ago
when I first started, he had to buyer with gope,
in the room there's sticker gope,
he already can top up,
and I felt that not only was she able to preserve the culture of this Gotong Royong,
because he had had people who helped,
but he also,
can be a bridge to the real economy.
And for me, it was priceless,
that these two companies working in tandem
can actually, hopefully, change a nation.
Budaia savings is how much?
Is it, is more than the per day of technology?
It's very.
Because, it's just like this,
because, gopia, in the way,
we're being, we're going to be,
Kaki Lema.
Why don't think about we pay for the other money that's going to go pay,
it's it's been to beiturned as a bank as well.
So they're not out of it.
We're putting in, we're getting out of the way we're going to be out of the
we're making to give them because they're thinking they're going to
make out of the money for a perputarant.
But not get out of out,
a month, not out of out,
oh, bu.
This is a tucangoddegade in Tugueningan.
Why not it's not for tabungan,
if I'm not think my son, I'm going to pay for my own.
So I think MAPAN, what made MAPAN also add to this,
is because MAPAN is the Ketua Community,
the Ketua community's actually helping their neighbors to nabung.
So, if you know, if you're having a day,
can't be like that's because of
if you can't have ari-an,
don't credit,
can get two pancy not just one.
This literati, education,
this is important,
and a lot of companies underestimated.
They're like discount or what made MAPA different
because these moms are from the community,
so they're literally serving their customers.
Like, you don't need to train them on customer service,
like, you don't need to train them on customer service,
This is how to the
this is how to the future?
For Indonesia, five years to the next.
Five years?
Yeah.
Wow.
Five-tawns.
Inclusion of the money,
now, can,
kind of,
50-a-one percent?
Yeah.
Is it?
With, with technology like this.
And education,
literacy, and so other.
Yeah.
If we're like that's now,
in the first digitalization.
This is just 1.0.
So, what's the bigun is industry e-commerce,
industry rat-hilling,
it's basically a market place of exchange.
Now,
there's a layer of the other,
with the other, with the bank jago,
bank, like, you start creating these financial products
that, that's later,
that will be tailored for each,
segment.
When we've got to work infrastructure,
we'll focus on the infrastructure,
then the layer on top will start to arrive.
Products, lending products.
There's now, there's pay later,
there's chichelan, there's many
some commissary of the other,
they make,
to help people, if there's musibah.
So you start having this financial products, right?
Now, if the product that's out
and more targeted to the right segment,
then you can start seeing adoption increase.
So that's the cost to serve,
and regulation should not even though
because, because the way is B.I.
and OJK have already made roadmap,
right, where we're going, right?
And I feel like having that roadmap
and industry will work together.
I think Fintech is kind of taken care of.
So, so, right now I'm like focused on,
okay, what other industries that we can build
to complete this puzzle for Indonesia,
So that is an example of a company that I'm advising
I'm on the board of, that's also accessible healthcare.
Nothing motivates a mom to change their behavior more than their children.
It's not.
It's a child or their child's not.
But if they've got changed behavior for not even
but they're not just to access, then percuma.
So by companies like Halodoc to be able to be
with using the main
access to the way that's access to
and make-education people
on how to use the telemedicine
that's used, it will change the way
healthcare is provided.
E-fishery, I'm also, I'm also,
I'm also, I'm from the sameusarer's in
the same.
That's where, the place?
E-Fishery?
In-Ferickery in, Bandung.
But right, right, right, right,
right, right.
So, yeah, that we're mbb,
to petanikin, we can basically,
donation, gototong, or like a certain asuransi
for people who are going to be able to
and I think what we want is an ecosystem
of these kinds of companies
that,
which,
collectively,
to bring Indonesia
to a level that more mappan.
So,
we can be able to look
in the country
that's got to be that mindset has to change.
Look, I mean, you've done so much and so well.
What is it that you could have done differently with the benefit of hindsight?
Hmm.
And this is supposed to inspire future generations who want to be like you.
What have I done differently?
Yeah.
Hmm.
To me honestly, it's a hard question, because I always look at failed to be like you.
look at failures as a building block for me to get to where I am.
That's necessary.
Yeah, can't.
Yeah, no.
Maybe like, let's talk about a company that I failed.
And what I think I would have done differently had I, you know, had I, with the benefit of hindsight.
So, I'm going to surfing a trip to Costa Rica as a friend's wedding.
as a friend's wedding.
And beautiful country, but it's up to that,
when it's from there,
like, it's about about 18-jamb,
like Indonesia,
like,
but then, it's very green.
And I learned that,
that's about,
almost 70% of the electric
in production with
renewables,
in this, hydro.
Because they have,
same like Indonesia,
with a lot of the bigot,
and in the bigotan.
I'm thinking,
why in Indonesia,
there's a hydro company.
So, while in business school,
my first year,
I'm pitching Mappan,
men.
On the other business plan
that hydro this
and
thesis is simple.
The thesis is
if
if every
sunnays in Indonesia
that will make the bit
air more
than things
that's put
you can't make as much energy.
And now we have 75 gigawatts of potential power.
And we're not,
how many degrees?
And we don't have a...
And it's continuous, right?
You don't have the storage issue of like solar or wind.
That's probably where we are today,
cumulatively.
Exactly.
Exactly.
But you don't have to build these big dams or these big things.
You can actually build,
because Indonesia has fast rivers.
They're short.
So I decided to raise some money.
I brought my friend from the US.
my friend from Kiva, from my name's from from here.
He came to work on this hydro company.
So I have Ben on this Mappan thing, and I have Darren on this, like,
... we say we're employ bule, right?
And my brother, I can't do it.
I can't do both of my brother.
I can't do boss, so I, my, my dek my dad I was to go to
to bring up to the hydro.
So then, my dad, my dad, we were able to, we were raising like $30 million.
And we've got almost all of it.
And we've even had even built up,
even when we've built this thing.
I think my dad mortgages house to build this thing.
It worked, don't worry.
Like that one actually worked out.
So we still still,
and our money, but
we want a business plan competition
in Thailand.
The problem was that
the regulation that set the power price
price, it never got settled.
And so, as a business,
you have a 20, 30 year horizon,
if you lock in the wrong price, you're dead.
Yeah. Yeah.
And there's no way to change it, because you lock it.
And I think I underestimated the regulatory risk of that business, right?
And I don't think I was,
I mean, had the enough foresight at the time to
to look at the government really on board,
and having them also see the vision of where you see the world,
that's really important.
And, that's when we're going to gophe,
when MAPAN,
we're going to MAPAN,
we're very,
be able to beinication,
both B.I.
MAPAN,
finally,
we've got licensicant to get to be lending.
And,
Because, because of the policy,
because of the policy work,
with one stroke of a pen, you can change millions of lives.
And I think sometimes we're in swastah,
we say, well, it's better, that's not really.
We need to embrace them and be rankle
so we're to make in Indonesia for Napaan this same-same,
not just, not-sinduced,
so that's the thing that I wish I had been more mature and know more about.
Maybe I'll try it later.
But to be fair to the government, if the government would have had a bigger fiscal space,
maybe a regulatory framework can be more than.
That's fair.
Because the problem is also a lot of cost to the government also.
And it has to be synergistic, if in Costa Rica,
why hydro it can't be able to do because they're really
is not going to push ecotourism.
So the green aspect of the entire ecosystem is important.
I think I'm glad, so now Nadim,
my partner, my partner,
now, now we're starting to see a lot of innovators
that, who are making
Indonesia be a bit of course
in the time,
50, or whatever,
can be a problem that's a pretty much
drastic.
And, and,
if it's not in the context of digitalization,
or if that's right-sharing, pintech and allan,
the need of the cost of it,
that's not much.
Right, not much.
Because the predacatting about,
how to make valuations.
Right, and infrastructure,
more focused.
Where, if in hydro,
the number gigawatt is finite.
Valuasi is,
based on that.
Not there's perkeemmangue.
Not that.
And if they're salangasing hard,
it's a fine balance.
I understand.
But yeah, look,
the company's not yet we had to give back the money,
Darren already in America again.
So you're saying that if you had the foresight of the stickiness
of the regulatory framework,
you probably would not have started that hydro business.
Or I would have had a backup plan.
I see.
Because, now climate change is very hot, right?
Real.
I could be able.
The additional, it's got from, say, big companies,
like, big tech companies, Google.
I'm like,
I have this idea, government,
can you pay the rest, like,
I didn't do that, right?
At the time, because I was just, okay, I thought...
For carbon credit or whatever.
Yeah.
Now, I think, had I done it now,
that's how I would approach it.
I would have started with the, okay,
what private sector funding can I get?
For making this more green.
And then, okay, government, what's the price you can give?
Okay, then...
Cuan, yeah, Cuan, we're going.
Okay, so on, okay, we're going to be
disrupts.
disruption.
If we've got disruption,
we've got disrupts in the sector,
agape-latered with marketplace,
transportations,
with ride-sharing,
yeah, right-sharing.
But I'm seeing there
some of the sectors that need
disrupts that more
more.
I've spoken on a side with you,
about energy.
This disruption
not much.
Not much, yeah.
Then,
There's been a lot of people,
but there's been disrupts,
and there's still much.
And, is still many.
This, if we're about
people who are now
who are going to be like you,
so they're not just not
care,
opportunity for more,
for 10, 20, 30,
time to the time.
It could be very well be that
people who are like this show this.
Eh, I want to be like Aldi,
what I'm going to do.
Talk about your views with regards to each one of these or some of these sectors.
Okay.
The most, I think,
the super-penteing for us,
is manufacturing.
Like, MAPAN,
now, MAPAN,
D'UAL PROGRUAL-PADUAL-IndonA.
So, from the AWAL-AWPAN,
we have product wide-label,
where we're sometimes,
there's the people who's in the arisen Mappan,
they can make spray,
like a certain that,
then they're made in the deserts,
then they're selling to arisen,
they're going to other.
So imagine,
if economy we can make
with UMKM that buying products from each other.
Because the collectivism
that made
people to...
...and to look,
and it's quality quality is good,
now they've already export.
That's a small that made spray this,
it's almost gone,
because it's almost gone,
because of the barang import,
but with the arisen,
with he made the sprays,
it's very skilled,
Indonesia, can very skilled labor,
like that,
there's a case where there's
a lot,
he'd have exported $5 million.
Wow.
Per-boulan?
Per-tour-purt-one?
But still, quite a lot for that small village, right?
And...
It's, I think, something that we have to start thinking about.
about it's because why Mappan is
focused on the product Indonesia,
not that we're not going to be able to
take from the other-negris.
But we want these small businesses,
these moms to understand that,
yo, we're together got on the royong,
we're as a collective,
so,
so, I've got to come from
Korean, when in the complex that,
to miyawak the room of this,
then, and then,
and then, he was jewell,
when you're gonna buy Hyundai,
because you're gonna buy Hyundai,
because I'm a Korean,
And I feel like,
if we're the time for the world in KMKM,
I think industry
we can be able to be able to make sense.
Because it's too, many factors from policy,
investasies, infrastructure,
pelabuhan.
And at least if we can make sure
we can make channel with arisen,
with e-commerce,
then,
the perjans, the regan can't
get a level.
That's why...
I'm really excited that
with the government to make up for Indonesia,
we're like, mappan, we're doing
so, so we're not going to be
connected, like,
there's going to be a disruption there.
There should be companies that...
...termastu permaidion robotics?
...termastrmast, I think that it's not just like...
If you're a robotics company, right, ultimately.
Then I think there's two things, right?
There's a supply chain part of manufacturing,
which is how do you make the whole chain where efficient?
Because now, it's expensive,
expensive, the manufacturing process itself.
How do you use robotics, how do you use machine learning
and how do you use simulations and 3D printing to actually evolve better?
And how do you aggregate these small entrepreneurs,
the way that Alibaba,
how do we do that in Indonesia with our own with our own
with our own with our own country,
because if China can have that government investment in the manufacturing industry
that export to America, so Alibaba just used that.
Now, how do we as a country create the policy from government,
create the demand,
with mapan, dual product Indonesia,
and create the tech innovation
that can make what sector this is efficient.
So that's, I think, a sector that I feel is really important.
See, what's another sector that is extremely important?
How about agriculture?
Agriculture, yeah.
Indonesia has...
13% from PDB.
13% of PDB.
and 10 hundred of the petanee,
small, and the land not yet
not yet eight hectares.
So, so that we're being trotocotanam
is still traditional.
So, the yield-neigh-it-it-youldt potential,
yield potential.
I'm taking courses in the Blanda for agriculture,
but how much of their.
They were their education.
D'uiochapir.
And this collectivism in the petanate is
very big.
I'm now,
I'm now,
crowdy.
They focus on the collectivism
Colomacier 2.0.
So he made petanicaabe
to learn how to
panam with padi,
with,
with seeds,
with the pupo,
and then their yields can go up by 40%.
It's the same concept as Mappan,
collectivism for petan, did digitize.
Mapan, collectivism, for the room-tangue,
to digitalized.
It's from Hulu,
to hilir, too,
that's really that's being unleashed.
Banyan.
Banyan.
Banyan.
But, but the problem is different.
I think what people mistaken in agriculture
is, that's the cabe and coffee
did treat same.
Although, if coffee,
or mango, or the other,
more than a lot more than a better.
It's almost like every single crop is its own industry.
And so I do believe agriculture is important.
But agriculture is not only from
information technology, but from the biology.
Somehow, with our country that's very suburb
and we have rainfall that good and the
the land that volcanic,
So that's not really
investment to make us
people from anywhere from where
to make Indonesia
to be a center biotech,
I feel like it's going to be game-changing.
Because we're, as a geographis,
we're as a de-de-de-de-kechina.
And I think we have what it takes.
We have an internal population
that can consume.
So, in the care of the economy is very important.
So I feel like agriculture is definitely a sector.
And that's why e-fishery and Crowdy is both in agriculture.
So personally.
Next one is healthcare, healthcare, education.
Healthcare and education.
Healthcare, I think,
primarily, is about access.
That's about 5% of GDP.
Yeah.
But it should be more.
I think we should be treating, you know,
there's a lot of people that just don't...
Actually, in the negasas,
it's more than 10%
but it's men cerminiscency,
because, because assurantia,
that's true, that's true.
That's a separate conversation.
But if I think that's about 10% is the ideal.
But right now is the access, the number of doctors per capita,
it's not even if it's not even in one generation.
It's need to be able to make a better
to learn the doctor our,
or training upskill of our bidsane or nurse our.
And using technology like telemedicine to be able to be it,
to use a technology to make-education to make-education
that if you're going to becky-education,
I think that change needs to happen,
that's right.
And I'm not optimistic, because I think the whole
last year, 2020,
it's made people aware about the education for healthcare,
so, yeah, like HALODUC
can work with LAPAN,
can work with crowdin,
with, if we can,
for assurances it, you can create this ecosystem
where awareness is more than
And I think what's important is not educating people at the top, but
the one in the bottom, for the —
— if you're not to —
— just to be the — to come to the —
—, like, to do that, like, and Mappan, I think, is actually in the position to do that,
can, right?
Okay, I want to push this.
This, if we look,
this, if we look, in the countries in the
in the other than the other than
disrupts, there are
innovations, technology
that's disruptive.
There are five that's notable.
Pick one out of the five,
and let's go deep,
to end this conversation.
The five
is,
genomics,
energy storage,
artificial intelligence,
robotics,
and
with blockchain.
Okay.
Let's talk about that.
Blockchain, is the inting,
desentralization
a certain that's a bit
that's a bit more than a stifat
before, which is centralistic.
And on that there,
there's also transparency and recourse
on-gras-maring-accuntability
for the people-gunagued.
So, this, it's be-pac-pac-pupupular.
Plus-minus is what,
or minus-ne-ne-ne-neous-ne?
We've got the plus.
Not really the whole plus, right?
I think blockchain, in my view, is the manifestation of collectivism.
Okay.
Okay.
Because,
before the other than we're going to do
we're doing
with other,
that's not we've got to trust,
it has had the penangangu-neigh,
the intermediary, right, whether it be a bank,
whether it be some firm,
or an e-commerce website, or whatnot.
But with blockchain,
verifications, it's a trussetka-cuitary
it's a technological solution to eliminate the need for a centralized authority.
Because, because,
because, if there's centralized authority,
a lot of the value from that transaction will be captured by the central authority.
The same way that Facebook holds all of our data, right?
And banks hold all of our money,
I think what blockchain enables,
that's something that has had
central authority, so that's not but to me.
The reason why it is positively disruptive
is because it will increase equality,
it should be equal.
And it's scary,
I think the biggest that
the most that's that people that
is that's the people that's about blockchain
is, if not there's central authority,
then what happens to the companies that's been
to just do exactly that?
Exactly that. It basically makes them non-existent or irrelevant.
Unless they adopt.
Like China, the government, already made a central bank digital currency,
right?
They've already made a central bank, digital currency.
And maybe that's been a way you want to replace the dollar.
And I, I say,
that with blockchain this,
if it's more the more than we can make up,
we can make up,
we can move to the new new,
and for farmers,
smart contracts,
That's because of blockchain.
Smart contracts,
the concept is that was,
if there's authority,
to put in the people,
if they,
if it's insuransi,
okay, if you're the cuacan
you're going to be paid $100,000
because crop had it didn't,
if not do you.
With smart contract,
you don't need an insurance company to do that.
You can actually just get the data from the satellite,
make contract the,
and then, when when you're just to get out of the time,
you can pay.
So it's immutable, and because of them am Ikechalking,
everything is transparent.
So you replace authority with transparency,
and I feel it will make make friction be a lot.
Carlinsey hedging is another example.
How do you address the concerns within the pre-existing authority
with the penexisting technology this?
...
...the first, it's, it's,
...
...theidermain with crypto.
Yeah.
I want to go into crypto.
...or blockchain with crypto, or blockchain with Bitcoin.
Because, I think, three things,
...
... the intermingle,
...
...
... because,
...
...
... let me give you an example,
...
NFT, non-vun-vailable tokens.
If we have a lookistan,
there,
that real, that's a lot of $10 million, but that copy-in-y-y-dra
and actually that concept exists in the physical world.
But in the digital world, can,
don't even until it's an NFT, which is,
with data authentication that's
the data of authentication,
we know the chain of ownership,
so that the authentic lookiesan or authentic digital piece can still be sold.
And it's, actually,
But musisi, ramifications for artists.
Suddenly, you don't rely on a record label,
Lucas, musicians.
It changes the way that art, as we know it.
Poets, peniourts, and stuff.
You can put everything in the blockchain, make it an NFT,
and then you can set the contracts,
royalty can be taken to the smart contract in the NFT that.
It's nothing to do with the central bank,
and,
because, they're, it should embrace this really.
But for that requires infrastructure,
to make the smart contracts,
to transition from cryptocurrencies
that smart contracts this is based upon to rupee.
So there's a lot of things to be worked on.
But if you do it well,
we can use blockchain for something positive
for our industry creative
without...
...legitimization or sovereignty our...
...sovereignty,
and this is one application.
So as a central banker, I would find out what are the problems that I'm trying to solve.
Don't just, just maybe we're playing crypto, because it's true,
but what are the fundamental disruptions that can be able to?
Yeah.
If...
If I, it's important...
...theircate...
...perbeda...
...andar ...ant... ...antarididmal.
with the same with the new.
It's a bit philosophical.
But if we look,
there's standard emas
to make up US dollar.
And,
why that's it's been a lot
because that is amalgamation
from one that's the fact
that's a time,
that's emas.
He's not gampang to travel over space,
because it's...
And one other,
the other,
travel over space.
Jal much more than it's not necessarily over time.
It's not being a convenient partnership.
But it's still,
it's still, that's the one one that's been
that's the most of the people,
so they're a bit more than what,
how, how, how, how,
why, it's more than it's more than it's more than
to assign value, because, you know,
what other than with the pencatacan of money
in the last year.
So the philosophical element of this is that
maybe this is this is the concern this
with existence of Bitcoin,
who's success med democratization of money,
which in that, he can travel over space,
and travel over time.
Because finite, the sumlhaned,
so that value is that's very assigned.
Yeah.
Now,
ah, is that the way to sell?
The Bitcoin proposition
over the over-value dollar proposition.
I'm not too, because Bitcoin is
I'm going to be it's like that Bitcoin with emas is like.
Two-two-two-punate amount in this
the two-dunay-dunay-dunay, two-douin-dain,
actually globally valued, today at least.
As in finite.
Yeah, so it's finite, and everyone's just,
there's finite, but there's, but there's not devalue, right?
So this is finite and people perceive there's a sense of value.
So it's liquid, basically, today.
I think the question is, right,
actually amaz, now is able to be traded in digital format.
Yes.
Gold certificates and whatnot.
So the question is not whether or not the standard
it has to be able to
from emas to Bitcoin or from the government bonds,
about bonds, to the amazes,
I think it's a question whether we're
based on a finite asset,
or it is based on the, essentially, right now,
the credibility of the government.
Yeah.
But within logic,
something finite is more
gampangue.
But it's also very restrictive, right,
from a policy perspective, right?
It's very restrictive.
Because emas, because of the time,
or something like a big time, or something like a
hack.
I think it's very restrictive from a government perspective.
And I think the way that global trade is being done today,
it is much, much easier if the governments are able to still manage their currency.
Now, I am a proponent of using digital currencies, central bank digital currencies,
as a way to intermediate this issue.
Because people are like, oh, let's do Bitcoin as the currency of the world.
I think that's a bit utopian.
But let's stick with the current standard, I think it's also not great.
Now, if every central bank start issuing their digital currencies,
then it becomes more transparent,
which currency is actually being used for global trade.
Then, man, man, may not be able to value dollar or not,
Yeah, if it's the people believe in the digital you want or the digital
rupee, then that currency will hold, and it's transparent at least.
If we're, we're going to be from the
central bankers, right, in the US, and I feel Indonesia actually can play a
leading role in Southeast Asia in this evolution of digital currencies.
I wasn't referring to rupee.
This, this is more per-parker in dollar.
Dollar, yeah, as a global trading...
Yeah.
I think you can change that once the central banks make the digital currency, digital Euro, digital U.S.,
and then suddenly people can choose, right?
Yeah.
And because it's transparent, it's all in the, you know, it's all open.
You can start seeing that the dollar is no longer going to be the only currency of choice.
So, yes, you can use Bitcoin, but the volatility also, because it's a bit scary too, Biana, so.
Like, like, man, week later, time.
Yeah, now it's like again, since we've got to meet the week last.
So anyway, last question.
2045,
there's been about a unicorn by then.
I think we'll stop counting by then.
Yeah.
Maybe not even being called unicorns again,
yeah.
Yeah.
But it's not an impossibility,
can,
for maybe
there's more than 100 unicorn
in the year of 2004.
No, I don't think it's impossible.
But I don't think it's impossible.
It's also the definition of a unicorn.
Because unicorns right now is based on valuation, right?
Let me give you an example.
Germany.
Economy their economy, maybe,
such a number of unicorns, but their economy
their mapan.
Impacting is gila.
Because they're many, medium-sized companies
who don'topang the economy because
they're making a very particular type of engine.
And what's the idea is?
because they're economy in the economy in the company this menager
the company is high-as-called
the owner knows their employees,
and it's made German,
in a state crisis, people are still learning to work hard,
people loyalty also big,
the problem we ascribe to the very western far-left,
far-right side of the equation
where everything has to be consolidated at scale
and you have the megacorn,
You have deca corn, you have all this corn, corn, corn,
you start losing the collectivism in person that.
And I think that's why, like, Mappan itself,
in structure, we always focus, like in the
day of the cedar-level cader.
So you have this hierarchy where that human boundary of collectivism
is about 150 people.
There's a research around this called the Dunbar number, right?
So if you can make these groups of 150 people,
and people feel that way, like the German companies,
I think Indonesia is more mappant but the
the mappanism, not necessarily tech unicorns.
I like it.
I like how you're using culture as an angle to see where the future is going to be.
Yeah, right?
Yeah, many of not look, from the cacamata, this.
Right?
Yeah.
They see the economy, right?
Yeah.
They're going to look at the non-budayanaean.
Yeah.
to drive valuations,
and the drive the value and everything.
But just through, that's really structural,
that's a culture that there.
Butto.
And if Indonesia,
still Indonesia,
still collective,
and gototong-rooyong,
I think,
we as a person in private sector,
as investor,
we cannot forget that
the foundation of our
foundation our collectivism
that, and
percuma,
if we're like a raya,
but we're all of individualist,
that's not tolerant,
they're not saying that's not like.
And I don't want my kids to live in that world.
Yeah.
And that's why I feel like,
I think Mappan is a company I founded a long time ago,
but it's still really near and near to my heart.
Yeah, you know, you sound very passionate when you talk about it.
Yeah.
Dee, thank you, thank you very,
same, same.
Is that at you.
Same, same.
Thank you for the time.
Fascinating discussion.
Same, seru,
from the day'sa,
crypto.
Sip.
Treman,
that's Aldi, Hario Pratoomo,
founder of Mappan.
Thank you.
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