Bancakan 2.0 – Jogja Startup And Developer Community

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This post is written by one of our contributors, Firman Nugraha, the founder of TeknoJurnal, a blog about IT and web technology in Indonesia. Firman Nugraha is an active researcher at the Sponsio Research Team (Tim Peneliti Sponsio). In addition to actively working as a researcher, he is currently working as a mobile developer at Nexian and is starting his entrepreneurship journey. Firman founded TeknoJurnal with his friend, Putra Setia Utama, in 2008.

Startup development in Indonesia is a fascinating phenomenon. The restoration of Indonesia’s creative atmosphere and the fast growth of social media also contribute significantly in triggering the spirit and development of startups in Indonesia, this can be evidenced by the emergence of events about the startup world and web development in Indonesia. Started by Yahoo! Open Hack Day some times ago and then continued by BarCampID, FreSh, Ignite Jakarta, TedxJakarta, and other communities that are not yet detected on the radar.

In several cities in Indonesia, the growth of such community is increasing. In Jakarta there is #startupLokal, a community for startups that was initiated by several friends from Jakarta startups. Bandung has FOWAB (Bandung Web Developers Forum) and Jogjakarta too has its own, Bancakan 2.0. Bancakan 2.0 was established and directed to become a similar community like #startupLokal and FOWAB.

Bancakan 2.0 held its first event in February 24^th 2010 and received positive responses from Jogjakarta startups. At its first event, about 40 people gathered, shared their experiences, provided opinions, and brainstormed with each other. They also developed a new network and community they always hope to exist in their city, Jogjakarta. During the discussion they decided to hold this kind of event routinely in Jogjakarta.

The 2^nd Bancakan’s meet up was held in March 26^th 2010. The number of participants attended the event reached 80 people. At this 2^nd event, the crews of Bancakan 2.0 developed a partnership with DailySocial that agreed to become the media partner for the next Bancakan 2.0 events.

Continuing the spirit of Jogjakarta startups, the 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th Bancakan 2.0 meet ups were held. At those 3 events, Bancakan 2.0 received higher appreciation and attracted more attendances and volunteers to participate at the event.

Here is the list of speakers who had shared their experiences at Bancakan 2.0:

Bancakan 1^st
Speakers:
Ogi Sigit Pornawan (@oggix), Founder of JogjaCamp.com and idwebhost.com
Singgih (@thepogee), Art director of Srengenge Cipta Imagi – a marketing communication agency
Kristiono Setyadi (@ksetyadi), Senior programmer and winner of Yahoo Open Hack Day South East Asia 2009

Bancakan 2^nd
Speakers:
Dwi Hermawanto (@pogung177), Founder of docuu.com and senior web developer
Didiet Noor (@lynxluna), Co-founder of Mijix, a company that focus on MongoDB consultation
Danny Oei Wirianto (@dWirianto), Founder of Semut Api Colony and Chief Marketing Officer of Kaskus
Rama Mamuaya (@rampok), Founder of DailySocial and startup evangelist
Samuel Henry, Game developer and JogjaIT activist

Bancakan 3^rd
Speakers:
Kristupa Saragih (@kristupa), Founder of Fotografer.net and senior photographer
Leontinus Alpha Edison (@leon_psm), Co-founder of Tokopedia.com
Andrew Darwis (@adarwis), Founder of Kaskus
Robin Anvie (@anvie), NoSQL evangelist and MongoDB specialist

Bancakan 4^th
Speakers:
Brian Arfi (@dhezign), Founder of Dhezign – a web agency and digital solution based at Surabaya
Leo Ferdinand (@neomelonbay), Founder of Infokost.net
Adi Sunata (@adisunata), Legal officer, specializing in law about copyright

Bancakan 5^th
Speakers:
Batista Harahap (@tista), CIO of Urbanesia and Android developer
Yohanes Sigit Purnomo W. P., Founder of personaflag.com
Fajar Budiprasetyo, Member of the Koprol team

Here is a picture of the 5^th Bancakan 2.0 event participants to show the enthusiasm of the people of Jogjakarta for Bancakan 2.0:

Quite a number isn’t it. For more info and update about Bancakan 2.0, visit their website,

Facebook page, and Twitter profile.