Samarinda, (malangkota.go.id) – The Malang City Government (Pemkot) has become one of the 10 Creative Regencies/Cities of Indonesia in 2021. Among them are Balikpapan City, Kutai Kartanegara Regency, Majalengka Regency, Malang City, Rembang Regency, Denpasar City, Gianyar Regency, Palembang City, Semarang City, and Surakarta City.
Malang City becomes the 2021 Creative Regency/City (KaTa) of Indonesia in the application and game sub-sector. The pinning of the Creative KaTa for Malang City was carried out in Samarinda City, Tuesday (30/11/2021).
Malang Mayor Drs. H. Sutiaji said, Malang City is part of a unified region known as Malang Raya. With an area of 110,06 km2, there are 62 universities in Malang City which makes this city also known as a city of education.
"The application and game sub-sector has grown since 2002, starting with the opening of departments related to information technology at several universities in Malang City," said Mayor Sutiaji.
In addition, the global trend that was starting to move towards the digital industry made Malang City a field for the growth of ecosystems in the application and game subsector. In Malang City there are 92 companies, studios/startups. Some are already in product companies or in service businesses (based on service).
“More than 2.200 jobs absorbed. Freelancer or freelancers or those who are already included in a team/studio/company. Then more than 4.800 bachelor's degree graduates per year, 10 universities with majors related to applications and games," continued Sutiaji.
The stages of the application and game sub-sector in Malang City, namely in 2003 Brawijaya University opened an Informatics department, 2011 the Singo Edan Startup Community (Stasion) was established, 2013 Brawijaya University and Malang State Polytechnic opened the Faculty of Informatics, 2014 Dilo was established as the first co-Working, 2015 Ma Chung University opened Working Space, 2016 10 universities in Malang opened Informatics Engineering departments, and 2017 other communities grew such as Php, Frontend, Indux, and others.
"All of this is done with a pentahelix program, namely government, academics, communities, and private (business). Examples of application and game sub-sector products in Malang City include Alterra with a CEO and an initial office in Malang which is now a national scale company (four branches)," said Sutiaji.
In addition, there is Majoo (an entrepreneurial application for managing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), a startup with product development based in Malang and received a capital injection of 4 million US dollars. Then there were 24 Slides in four countries, Malang became the first city as design center with +150 teams. There is also Algorocks' Panic getting publisher from US: TinyBuild and successfully trending #1 US on Playstore.
"There are many more games and applications from Malang City that have been successful in the national and international arena. For example, the Crazy Delivery Rumble Game received initial funding from Indogo Game Startup 2020, the Paw-Paw Game received publisher from the US and released in several consul, Fairie Afterlight Game received initial funding from Indigo Games Startup 2020," he said.
Meanwhile, Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy (Menparekraf) Sandiaga Salahudin Uno said that district/city governments must really increase innovation in their respective regions. Through the 2021 Indonesian Creative Words, his party hopes to provide motivation, inspiration and enthusiasm to increase regional creativity. "I express my appreciation to the districts/cities selected as 21 Indonesian Creative Words 2021," said Sandiaga Uno. (ram)
