Let’s create impacts in Indonesia’s Education System through Technology
#GovTechEdu @ Telkom Indonesia
Who We Are
We are a diverse group of 200+ professionals working directly with various ministries in Indonesia to build large-scale, high-quality, and user-centric tech products that can rapidly help millions of teachers and schools across Indonesia and accelerate policy executions to create permanent and long-lasting positive changes to Indonesia’s public sector education.
We are GovTech Edu or we simply called it WarTek, which stands for Warung Teknologi. It represents a team of product-tech, local, and which embodied our gotong-royong and humble cultural values.
We are part of the Telkom Group, one of Indonesia’s highest-valued, (>26B USD) most profitable, (>135T IDR annual revenue) and best tech company to work on. (Ranked #1 in Indonesia and #299 Globally by Forbes World’s Best Employers 2021)
What unites us is our shared passion for delivering positive changes to society.
Our Mission
In GovTech, we’re setting out to solve a wide variety of problems related to Education & we’re driven to create an irreversible education transformation through technology.
The Ministry of Education and Culture in July 2020 launched part five of the “Merdeka Belajar” (Freedom to Learn) program: transformational teachers as the driving force for education transformation in Indonesia.
The transformational teachers are expected to be able to support students’ development holistically to become students who uphold the principle of Pancasila. They are also expected to become trainers or mentors for other teachers for student-centered learning, and become role models and agents of transformation for the education ecosystem.
Our Team
We are a group of 200+ professionals with diverse backgrounds, ranging from tech to educators to public policy.
We formed our team right in the middle of a global pandemic. Hence we were born in a world where productive remote work has become the norm rather than the exception. We intend to preserve this way of working even after the pandemic ends. Our team’s management is therefore committing to support 100% WFH for every employee within our team. Some of us even work from outside Indonesia and in time zones spanning from Europe to the Americas.
Most of our talents came from tech unicorns and decacorns such as Gojek, Grab, Bukalapak, Traveloka, Tokopedia, and OVO; and top organizations such as the World Bank, the United Nations, and Kantor Staf Presiden.
Why do we assemble such a large team?
We approach our mission by bringing our prior experience building large-scale customer-centric tech products in various unicorn companies. We have seen first-hand how tech can deliver tons of positive impacts to millions of users. This experience fuels our belief that we can accelerate positive changes to Indonesia’s public sector education by building high-quality tech products directly with the government.
How Do We Work Together?
We organize our 200+ person team after the tribes and squads models commonly found in tech startups. We have multiple product engineering tribes, with cross-functional product, engineering, data, design squads supported by policy and regulatory analysts dedicated to the tribe.
To ensure our continuous iterations align with their vision, we have regular and frequent sync with stakeholders within the government, chiefly within the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology. We also worked with various stakeholders to coordinate product launches, both large-scale and iterative.
Within this framework of collaboration, our stakeholders understand that to effectively solve problems through tech, the users of the products themselves should drive the shape of our products. They recognize that the product must continuously go through user-centric iterations and data-driven experiments instead of top-down directives.
