Boosting Competitiveness, Danantara Accelerates Digital Transformation of SOEs
Danantara Indonesia has organised a Coordination Meeting on SOE Digital Transformation as a strategic forum to align the vision, policy direction, and work plans for digital transformation. This ensures that the transformation is carried out across the entire SOE ecosystem in a unified orchestration.
The initiative of this forum aims to support the implementation of President Prabowo Subianto’s Asta Cita through the acceleration of digital transformation within the SOE environment, directed towards strengthening national digital sovereignty and promoting the industrialisation of Indonesian digital products.
The meeting was led by Danantara Indonesia’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Sigit Puji Santosa, and attended by around 60 major holding companies from various strategic SOE sectors. With more coordinated collaboration and synergy, SOE digital transformation is expected to proceed in a more measured, effective manner, delivering direct impacts on improvements in operational and business performance. Sigit emphasised the importance of a coordinated digital transformation approach across the entire SOE ecosystem.
“Danantara Indonesia plays a central role in aligning direction, platforms, talent, and governance so that every digital initiative in SOEs does not run separately, but is able to produce efficiency, performance improvements, and collective added value for the nation. This alignment becomes an important foundation for strengthening SOE competitiveness amid rapid technological changes and industrial dynamics,” Sigit stated in an official remark on Thursday (7/5/2026).
The digital transformation driven by Danantara Indonesia encompasses comprehensive strengthening in business models, customer experience, operational models, technology infrastructure, as well as governance and data utilisation. With a more comprehensive and integrated approach, Danantara aims to ensure that digital transformation does not stop at the planning level, but results in tangible performance improvements in each SOE.
Through the consolidation and integration of platforms and technologies, as well as the utilisation of shared capabilities, SOE digital transformation is also directed towards strengthening synergies among SOEs. In certain areas with high duplication levels, such as technology spending, digital infrastructure, licences, and shared services, this synergy has the potential to generate efficiencies with an initial estimate of 25-40%, depending on the characteristics and readiness of each SOE.
Danantara Indonesia also assesses that the rapid development of technology, particularly in fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Advanced Analytics, Post-Quantum Readiness, and cybersecurity, demands that SOEs adapt as quickly as possible. This forum serves as an initial step in formulating the direction and process of adopting frontier technologies (future technologies) as part of a strategy to enhance productivity, decision-making quality, and the creation of new innovations relevant to industry needs.
The development of digital human resources (HR) is also a main agenda of the meeting, given that Indonesia requires an additional around 600,000 digital talents per year until 2030 (Komdigi, 2025). Using the “Triple Helix” model, Danantara Indonesia continues to strengthen synergy between industry, government, and academia in efforts to accelerate talent development, research, and the commercialisation of national innovations.
In addition to the above topics, Danantara Indonesia is also promoting the development of domestic strategic technologies such as sovereign AI, sovereign cloud, and other future technologies to strengthen national capabilities. The development of these technologies is expected not only to increase productivity and performance in the SOE ecosystem, but overall to strengthen “Indonesia Inc.” through enhanced collaboration between Danantara Indonesia and the SOE ecosystem within it, the government, academia, and other industry players.
Digital Transformation will be implemented in stages, starting with measuring the digital readiness of all SOEs and building collaboration foundations in the first six months. This process will continue with the application of an integrated digital roadmap through the Danantara Digital Transformation Task Force as a joint governance mechanism, from the Danantara Indonesia level to all SOEs.
Through this mechanism, the implementation of transformation can be monitored more clearly, measurably, and accountably, while opening opportunities for mutual assistance in important areas such as auditability, financial management, data and system integration, and operational performance improvements.