games.com – This time we will discuss about the Indonesian game which is proclaim losing competitiveness with foreign Hame. This might happen because abroad have a lot of games. This information is from detikcon. Currently paid online games such as Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), to Mobile Legends are very popular in Indonesia. Even though the game is foreign made. Without realizing it, its existence has made Indonesia’s balance of payments (BOP) deficit.
According to economist from the Institute for Development of Economics & Finance (Indef) Bhima Yudhistira, the quality of local games is still far behind that of foreign-made games. This is because there is no special education in Indonesia to develop local games.
“There (China) there is one game producer, they have a college or vocational school to conduct game application training. Indonesia does not yet have people on our big campuses who specifically encourage multimedia for games,” he said to detikcom, Monday ( 6/1/2022).
“So it’s like we need ux designers, apps development (application development), engineering programs, which models that we don’t provide enough so that human resources for gamers in Indonesia are still around gamer communities. There is no systematic program or education yet,” he continued.
Bhima stated that Indonesia is 10 years behind China in terms of the game industry. In China, the government has supported game companies in terms of funding, education, and infrastructure. This is the reason for the rapid growth of the foreign game industry.
“We may be about 10 years late to prepare a quality local game industry compared to China. He already has a strong infrastructure, ready human resources, large enough capital. So a lot of venture capital is injecting game developers in China,” said Bhima.
Economic observer from PT Bank Central Asia (BCA) David Sumual added that the income from games is very large. Even many companies in China that rely on revenue from games.
“Many big companies in China that rely on revenue from games,” said David.
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