Google Boss Promises Train 100 Thousand Developer Indonesia

Jakarta - In a visit to Google's office, the President Joko Widodo expressed his hope that Google can cooperate in efforts to realize the vision of Indonesia to be the center of the digital economy in Southeast Asia. Hope it delivered to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

Google Boss Promises Train 100 Thousand Developer Indonesia

Google seems to directly respond. After meeting with Jokowi, Sundar wrote on Twitter that he felt honored to visit Jokowi and also promised his side will train 100 thousand developer Indonesia.


'Honored to host PresidentJokowi atgoogle today, Discussed 100k plan to train developers, "wrote Sundar. He posted a link to a Google blog that contains the translation of Google's plan to train Indonesian developer.


In the blog a couple of success stories told Andi and Idawati Taru which develops digital story books and educational applications in Salatiga. Now their company, Educa Studio, employs 13 employees and has produced 200+ apps installed on over 15 million mobile phones and presents education by appealing to children all over the world.


Unfortunately, according to Google, the story of Andi and Idawati relatively rare in the country who are creative, entrepreneurial and wide like Indonesia. Part of the reason is because the growing community of developers Indonesiameskipun pesatmasih one of the smallest in Southeast Asia.

"That is why, in conjunction with the visit of Indonesian President Joko Widodo to our headquarters in California today, we are proud to announce a plan to help train 100,000 mobile developers until 2020," wrote Google.


Various strategies were implemented. First, partnering with universities to reach out to students of computer science in recent years and implementing the curriculum for a semester on how to develop high-quality Android applications.


Second, translate Udacity course paramount to Indonesian to reach anyone who wants to realize the idea of the application. This course is taught expert instructors Google's Developer Relations, and can be accessed free of charge from anywhere on any device. Third, extend the Indonesia Android Academy sessions, the group further study and led facilitators provide guidance for developers on all levels. This group will be held in five cities. Bandung, Jakarta, Semarang, Surabaya and Yogyakarta.


"Through these programs, we want to contribute to the change Indonesia into a digital country, a country where there are thousands more like Andi Taru tech entrepreneurs and Idawati," said Google.