Indonesia’s chance to boost digital economy

Virtual ambition: A mother holding a mobile phone for her daughter as she attends a virtual kindergarten class at a bus station in Jakarta. Despite being the largest digital economy in South-East Asia, Indonesia’s overall Internet connectivity only ranks 66 globally. — AFP

INDONESIA’S digital economy can benefit from the growing United States-China tech war as the ongoing conflicts prompted many subsea Internet cable owners to avoid the contested waters and seek more viable locations to power the global Internet.

Subsea cables, the key backbone of Internet infrastructure carrying the world’s data, have increasingly become central to the US-China tech war.