Jakarta is going to host the first Boost conference in 17-18 January next year at Intercontinental Hotel. Boost is a conference that aims to assist startups in in understanding scalability and growth to go from two bit garage company into a sizable business. With experienced entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley, Japan, and Indonesia headlining the event, it’s going to be a valuable event for founders to attend and gain insight.

At the moment, the technology startup scene in Indonesia is cooling off a little bit after the explosive growth in 2010 and earlier this year. There’s been little evidence that the massive interest in building tech startups in Indonesia has actually amounted to something equally large, but the drive is still there and it has sparked enormous interests from investors across the world, especially from Japan. It’s as if the momentum of the technology community is being picked up and responded in kind by foreign companies looking for growth and investment potentials.

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