In order to protect Indonesian market from fraud by unregulated e-commerce sites, Indonesia’s Ministry of Communications and Informatics will force e-commerce companies to register to the ministry. One of the non-optional condition to do so, is to force e-commerce sites to use a .id domain name.
Elven Games (previously known as Elventales) releases its newest game, Garuda Riders. This game is a part of the Adventures of Wanara project, a project which parallelly produces novel, interactive comic, game and animation series. While Mechanimotion works on the rest of the porject’s universe, Elven Games creates the digital interactive comic and games for iOS and Android.
If you are bored with the hackathons held in the last months, you may start paying attention to this one. This event is interesting, because developers are not required to work on a commercial apps. In this event, developers are asked to give a solution for a problem faced by the world’s citizen.
Government Regulations on Implementation of Electronic System and Transaction has been officially signed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on October 12. Thus, the regulation which was mandated by the 2008 law number 11 on Electronic Information and Transactions (UU ITE), becomes enforceable. The regulation was published as PP Nomor 82 Tahun 2012.
MNC Group plans to dive further into the digital world by developing a search engine. The potential Google competitor will see efforts towards its creation to begin in 2013.
From the 13 teams registered at the Sparxup 2012 Hackathon, there were 10 teams that presented their apps at the demo day. The first six teams had been published earlier. The following are the next four teams that presented their apps during the demo day on Thursday, before the judges, fellow developers, and attendees.
