TL;DR: Indonesia’s Golden Vision 2045 targets a multi-trillion-dollar economy and high-income status, with VID 2045 naming blockchain (alongside AI, IoT, metaverse, quantum) as core digital infrastructure. Regulation, market adoption, and CBDC pilots are aligning. Mandala Chain’s sovereign-chain frameworks and ID-first architecture — along with strategic partnerships with BRIN and industry partners — position us to be the infrastructure layer for trust, compliance, and scale.
Indonesia’s commitment to digital transformation is unprecedented in scale and scope. The numbers tell a compelling story:
These aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet — they represent the largest coordinated digital transformation effort by any emerging economy in history.
Indonesia’s Digital Vision (VID) 2045 explicitly identifies blockchain as one of the core “future emerging technologies” alongside AI, IoT, and quantum computing. This isn’t accidental, blockchain addresses three critical challenges Indonesia faces:
As the world’s largest archipelago with over 17,000 islands, Indonesia needs technology infrastructure that can operate independently of foreign control. Blockchain provides the foundation for true digital sovereignty, enabling Indonesia to control its own data, identity systems, and financial infrastructure.
With a population of 280 million spread across diverse regions and cultures, establishing trust at scale is paramount. Blockchain’s immutable ledger technology provides the transparency and auditability needed for large-scale governance and commerce.
Indonesia can skip legacy infrastructure limitations and build modern, blockchain-native systems from the ground up — much like how the country leapfrogged landline phones to go directly to mobile networks.
Why this matters for enterprises & government: Clearer supervision, licensing certainty, and state-backed digital money form the plumbing that serious identity, payments, provenance, and tokenization rails depend on.
Mandala Chain is designed as a sovereign-chain framework with policy-grade digital identity at the center. In Indonesia, that means aligning with the existing identity stack (e-KTP → IKD) while advancing toward verifiable credentials and explainable, auditable automation. Our joint research and field work with BRIN focus exactly here — how to govern AI-blockchain-DID integration so it’s ethical, interoperable, and production-ready for the public sector. The digital transformation for SE Asia starts in Indonesia, and we are creating infrastructure that can scale and adopt with jurasdictions accross all emerging markets.
Digital Governance Framework (2025-Ongoing) BRIN’s policy research in digital governance, conducted in collaboration with Mandala Chain, is formulating comprehensive regulatory and institutional frameworks for AI-blockchain integration in Indonesia’s public sector. This research, involving stakeholders from the Ministry of Home Affairs, National Cyber and Crypto Agency (BSSN), and Bank Indonesia, directly informs Indonesia’s approach to verifiable credentials and digital identity.
Building Digital Trust (2025-Ongoing) Following Indonesia’s introduction of the Identitas Kependudukan Digital (IKD) app in 2022, BRIN and Mandala Chain are researching the transition to verifiable credentials — a critical component of Indonesia’s digital identity ecosystem. This work focuses on creating secure, privacy-respecting, and interoperable identity solutions that can scale to serve 280 million citizens.
Mandala Chain’s addressable wedge by 2045: identity & governance services, regulated tokenization (assets/claims), supply-chain provenance, and CBDC-adjacent rails. On conservative macro scenarios, blockchain-enabled activity could plausibly span low-hundreds of billions within Indonesia’s 2045 economy; identity/governance alone sits as a large, durable slice.
We’re inviting government agencies, SOEs, banks, telcos, and real-economy leaders to co-design pilots where digital identity + compliant ledgers create measurable public value: fewer leaks, faster delivery, better accountability. If you’re building toward Indonesia 2045 — and want rails that people trust — let’s talk.
