National Agency for Research and Innovation
Organization2 reports
The National Agency for Research and Innovation is an Indonesian government organization. It publishes reports on the country's video game industry, covering topics like ecosystem challenges and developer working conditions.
Documents
Whitepaper9 pages
Why Local Game Industries Struggle to Scale: A Structural Analysis of Indonesia's Game Development Ecosystem
Indonesia’s game development sector faces a profound structural lock-in that prevents local studios from scaling despite the country’s massive domestic consumer base.
- Indonesia's domestic game developers capture less than one percent of their own national market despite the country's large consumer base.
- The industry is trapped in a cycle of low-growth micro-enterprises that prioritize short-term outsourcing work over the creation of original intellectual property.
- Conventional financing systems are structurally incompatible with game development because they require tangible collateral, which intangible intellectual property assets cannot provide.
National Agency for Research and InnovationAug 2026
Whitepaper5 pages
Worker in Video Game Industry: The Gap Between Indie and Incorporated Video Game Developers in Indonesia
This study examines the human resource composition and operational differences between incorporated and independent (indie) video game developers in Indonesia.
- The Indonesian game industry is heavily male-dominated, with men comprising 81% of the total workforce and women primarily restricted to administrative or art-related roles.
- A significant educational divide exists: 57.8% of incorporated firm employees hold undergraduate degrees, while 40.9% of indie developers are high school or vocational school graduates.
- Approximately 60% of both incorporated and indie developers utilize outsourced labor, primarily for art, design, and technical production roles.
National Agency for Research and InnovationJun 2022