ISRAEL-INDONESIA FUTURES PROGRAM

PROJECTS (2024 Program)

Below are details of the projects developed by teams on the 2024 Israel-Indonesia Futures program.

The team projects component on the program plays an essential role in building trust and long-term working relationships between program participants, acquired by working together to jointly develop initiatives in a field of their choice to strengthen Israel-Indonesia relations.

Program participants comprise leaders from business, finance & investment, social impact, international & community development, tech (agritech, water tech, climate tech, cybersecurity, edtech, medtech), healthcare, financial inclusion, education, policy, and innovation diplomacy.

Participants on the program are grouped into teams of 4 people (2 Israeli and 2 Indonesian), grouped around shared interest clusters. Each team develops and implements a project of their choice to strengthen Israel-Indonesia relations in either business, education, culture, media or policy.

2024 PROJECTS:

ENGAGING ISRAELI & INDONESIAN LEADERS IN HEALTHCARE INNOVATION
TEAM MAZMUR

This team hosted two half-day webinars on May 29 and June 13, 2024, focused on:

• Innovation Models in the Health Sector
• The Role of Government in Fostering Innovation in the Health Sector

The webinars were designed for a select group of Indonesian invitees, including CEOs of hospital groups and healthcare companies, investors and health policy advisors.

Session speakers included leading experts from Israel’s healthcare innovation sector including Prof. Ran Balicer (Innovation Officer – Clalit Health Services), Prof. Ronni Gamzu (CEO – Tel Aviv Medical Center), Angel Rabinovich (CBO – ARC Innovation Center at Sheba Medical Center), Esti Shelly (Director of Digital health at Israel’s Ministry of Health) and Mati Gill (CEO – Aion Labs).

The webinars featured sessions on Israel’s health and health tech sectors; Innovation models in hospitals; Promoting entrepreneurship and innovation at HMOs (health management organizations); the Israeli Innovation Authority – Accelerating innovation from the government; The digital health strategy of Israel’s Ministry of Health, as well as specific case studies.

The bi-national team, who named themselves ‘Team Mazmur‘ (Hebrew for ‘the best’ and Bahasa Indonesia for ‘psalm’) were comprised of Israelis and Indonesians from the fields of innovation diplomacy, international business development, finance and policy.

Lital Eshel, Director of Innovation Diplomacy at Start-Up Nation Central and a member Team Mazmur that coordinated the webinars said, “This first-of-its-kind online engagement seminar between Israeli healthcare experts and Indonesian health sector professionals opened a new channel of communication in innovation between Israel and Indonesia and laid the groundwork for future collaboration in healthcare, highlighting the bridging power of innovation in normalizing bilateral relations.”

ISRAELIS & INDONESIANS CONVENE FOR MUSLIM & JEWISH BEIT MIDRASH/MADRASSA
TEAM ABRAHAM

This team has coordinated a series of  online Muslim-Jewish study groups between Israeli and Indonesian religious figures. The regular bi-monthly study groups have focused on:

• Teshuvah – Tawba: Repentance and Returning to the Source
• The Land of Israel in Judaism and Islam
• Preparation for Hannukah – the Meaning of Idol Worshipping, Kufar, and Kofer in Our Time

Calling themselves ‘Team Abraham’ in a nod to Judaism and Islam’s shared forefather, the team’s members include academics and interfaith leaders from Israel and Indonesia.

Team leader, Rabbi Aharon Ariel Lavi, Director of the Ohr Torah Interfaith Center and participant in the Israel-Indonesia Futures program, called the series a “unique journey of interfaith learning and dialogue between Israelis and Indonesians, aimed at fostering mutual understanding, respect and friendship through the shared exploration of our rich spiritual traditions, as we are all the children of Abraham.”

“We believe that in order to make religion part of the solution to global challenges and conflicts, we must invest in long-term joint learning and conversation, and this [online Beit Midrash/Madrassa] was just the first step.”

EQUIPPING SCHOOL TEACHERS WITH THE TOOLS TO TEACH INNOVATION
TEAM AVIA

This Israeli-Indonesian team of entrepreneurship and tech educators and communication professionals will run a series of workshops on Creative Leadership for Indonesian Educators.

The online workshops are designed to equip Indonesian elementary school teachers with the tools to instill their students with a creative and innovative mindset.

Team AVIA, Israeli and Indonesian entrepreneurship and tech educators and communications professionals, designed the program to address what they saw as being a lack of entrepreneurial capacity-building within the education system.

According to Start-Up Nation co-author Saul Singer, who spoke to the group during the 2024 Israel-Indonesia Futures program, “Creativity and motivation tend to go down from age 6 due to standardized school tests.”

The series of workshops – due to begin in late 2024 – will be led by Indonesian and Israeli experts in entrepreneurship education, innovative thinking, and tech education.

ADDITIONAL INITIATIVES IN CLIMATE TECH AND WATER TECH ARE CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT BY OTHER TEAMS ON THE 2024 PROGRAM.

CHALLENGES (2021-2023 Programs)

Below are details of the challenges presented and developed over the 2021-2023 Israel-Indonesia Futures programs.

The challenge component of the program played an essential role in building trust and long-term working relationships between program participants, acquired by working together to develop solutions to the assigned challenge.

Candidates were recruited according to the criteria of each program’s Challenge Partner.

Participants on the program were grouped into teams of 4 people (2 Israeli and 2 Indonesian), comprising a unique combination of skills, knowledge and networks to form customized consulting teams/thinking groups.

Each team was tasked to develop a solution to the challenge set by our Challenge Partner, by the end of the program.

Team solutions were judged by a panel of judges at the end of the program. The team that presented a solution with the most promise undertook a validation trip, whereby the Indonesian team members spent a week in Israel and the Israeli team members spent a week in Indonesia, meeting key stakeholders, business leaders and advisors.

2023 CHALLENGE:

INCREASING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES FOR
INDONESIAN WOMEN MICRO-ENTREPRENEURS:

Develop innovative go-to-market strategies that will utilize financial literacy education tools to encourage women micro-entrepreneurs in rural areas of Indonesia to adopt digital savings products, leading to improved prosperity and advancement of their living conditions.
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2022 CHALLENGE:

SEEKING DIGITAL SOLUTIONS TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD
AMONG SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS ACROSS INDONESIA
Develop a digital solution that will enable social entrepreneurs across the Indonesian archipelago to access capacity-building and business development services – such as incubator/accelerator programs, workshops, seminars, mentorship opportunities, and other resources – no matter where they are operating or when they want to use them – to help them and their ventures grow and thrive.

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2021 CHALLENGES:

2021 CHALLENGE 1:
EXPANDING SUPPORT FOR SOCIAL INNOVATORS IN INDONESIA
Establish a self-sustaining model for social innovation
accelerators in four cities outside of Jakarta/Java.
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2021 CHALLENGE 2:

ESTABLISHING INNOVATION EDUCATION & TRAINING CENTER IN BALI
Develop a plan for a world-class higher education and training facility,
impact and innovation hub that will cater to jobs of the future.
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2021 CHALLENGE 3:
SUSTAINABLE COFFEE PRODUCTION THROUGH AGRO-FORESTRY
Develop tech and training models to increase yields of
smallholder farmers for sustainable coffee production in
Java through agroforestry.
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2021 CHALLENGE 4:
ADDRESSING HEALTHCARE NEEDS IN INDONESIA WITH INNOVATIVE MEDTECH
Identify products and technologies in this Israeli company’s portfolio
that can be useful to Indonesia in addressing its most pressing healthcare needs,
and developing go-to-market strategies.
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