A passenger drone prototype, Frogs, will ‘fly’ from Yogyakarta to Germany. The fruit of the two-year research that has spent around Rp. 1 billion is one of several technology startup products that will be brought by Indonesia to be exhibited at the Hannover Messe 2020, 20-24 April.

Indonesia through the Ministry of Industry became an official country partner at the technology exhibition. In addition to Frogs, a number of other products will also be brought together by UMG Idealab, Venture Capital (VC) and Venture Builder (VB) companies engaged in the field of technology utilization since 2015.

“One of Indonesia’s goals to become an official country partner at this event is to attract cooperation in the fields of investment, technology, and improving human resource skills,” said Director General of Resilience, Regional and International Industry Access (KPAII) Ministry of Industry Doddy Rahadi, through written statement.

Doddy explained, hundreds of thousands of people from dozens of countries will come to the exhibition. In 2019, for example, there were 6,5000 exhibitors from 73 countries and produced around 5.6 million business contracts.

Frogs, a pioneered manned drone in Indonesia, led the line of technology products that will represent Indonesia at the exhibition this year. Able to carry two passengers and fly 100 kilometers with only one electric charge, this drone was born in a workshop in Yogyakarta which was later developed in the Idealab UMG ecosystem.

Another excellent startup product in the community that will also be brought to Hannover is Widya who will exhibit big data, smart speakers, robots, face recognition, to artificial intelligence (AI). In addition there is also a natural language processing technology (NLP) in Indonesian called Botika.