Creative Industries and Digital Economy

Why Indonesia?

Indonesia’s creative economy is growing rapidly and is predicted to be one of the country’s greatest sources of new employment opportunities in 2024. The sector has been bolstered by an influx of new application, software and e-game developers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the recent international success of Indonesian digital platforms. Indonesia’s growing capabilities and expertise in the creative industries presents an opportunity for Western Australian businesses to collaborate and grow in partnership with Indonesia.

Indonesia has 21.5 million internet users and is the largest e-commerce market in Southeast Asia by value. Indonesia is also quickly becoming a major technology hub with strong business appetite for innovative products and a willingness to adopt AI solutions. However, it is projected that there will be a shortage of 9 million skilled and semi-skilled ICT workers in Indonesia by 2030. Western Australian ICT, software and cybersecurity companies have an opportunity to engage, collaborate and grow with Indonesia’s digital sector.

Why Western Australia?

Western Australia is a world leader in data research and is an emerging hub for technological innovation. The State’s digital capabilities are broad and extend from space technology and cyber security, through to film development and immersive screen technology.

There are strategic and economic benefits that will come from partnering with and investing in Western Australia’s creative industries and digital technologies sector:

• creative co-working spaces, accelerator programs, and start-ups

• experience hosting big-screen successes including Red Dog and Paper Planes, and a range of incentives for film development and immersive screen technology

• home to the national Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre

• well-trained, technologically savvy and highly motivated workforce

• the base for the Australian Space Data Analysis Facility (ASDAF) and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, which houses the most powerful research supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere

• proximity to the Asia-Pacific region and direct connectivity through four international subsea cables which offers low latency connectivity to Singapore, Jakarta, the Middle East and Europe.