Blockchain Peruri Event Report

I was fascinated when Peruri, the leading company in security printing owned by the state, hosted their own blockchain seminar. Peruri's CEO, Dwina Septiani Wijaya, shared her positive views on blockchain while delivering opening speech on the event.

The first speaker was Paul Martin from Gartner. If the company rings a bell in your head, they're the company that published Gartner's Hype Cycle - a graphical representation of maturity, adoption, and social application of specific technology. According to the cycle, blockchain technology are currently heading to into "trough of disillusionment" stage in 2020–2022.

There is one main condition for blockchain adoption to thrive: the willingness for status quo to adopt new tech. This includes government regulation and organizational barriers. If the acceptance from status quo are limited, blockchain technology will thrive in other region of the world where open economy system is more welcomed by government and the industry.

Riki Arif Gunawan, Deputy Director of Information Security Technology in Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of Indonesia, states that government will support blockchain technology, but not bitcoin. I found this attitude contradictory, since a blockchain usually needs incentive mechanism to keep the blockchain secure. He later stated that currently the government is exploring private blockchain technology for taxation purpose.

Jean-Daniel Gauthier, the co-founder of Blockchain Zoo, gave an excellent presentation about what blockchain really is, the difference between bitcoin and blockchain, and how blockchain is set apart from other database implementation.
Later, representative from Telkom gave a talk about innovation. They recently founded Blocknity, a blockchain-as-a-service platform (blocknity.com, currently no content yet but will be coming in the near future), and will support Ethereum and several more blockchains. Oracle rep also gives promotion on their blockchain cloud service that wraps around IBM Hyperledger Fabric.

The seminar was closed by announcement of announcement of upcoming Blockchain Hackathon hosted by Peruri. It seems they don't want to miss any chance on blockchain adoption - hackathon, in my opinion, is a good way to acquire technology without expending too much resource and risk.