Bogor, May 23, 2025 – Continuing the spirit of innovation fostered by the Telintrapreneur program, PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Telin) successfully held Hackathon 2025—an intensive 24-hour collaborative event that brought together eight selected teams to transform ideas into tangible solutions.
The term “hackathon” combines “hack,” meaning to create quick and creative solutions, and “marathon,” reflecting intense focus and continuous work over a short period. This hackathon emphasized problem-solving, innovation, and strategic execution at speed.
Conducted with high enthusiasm and creative tension, Hackathon 2025 served as a strategic extension of the ideation phase within the Telintrapreneur program. The goal was clear: to unite team members from diverse backgrounds and expertise to co-create solutions, translate ideas into real prototypes, and rapidly test and validate their assumptions. Through hands-on mentoring and close collaboration, teams were encouraged to confidently present their solutions to key decision-makers and drive real-world business execution.
Throughout the event, teams received intensive mentoring during checkpoint sessions from three main advisors:
• Wendhyharto Kusumaatmadja – Group Head Digital Initiative
• Aad Azhari – VP Service Readiness
• Markus Ferriek Khristianto – SVP Strategy Planning Investment
These advisors played a crucial role in ensuring each team’s development plan remained aligned with execution progress, while providing strategic guidance to ensure ideas were not only conceptually sound but also executable in real markets. They actively participated in checkpoint sessions, which formed a vital foundation throughout the Hackathon.
The checkpoint sessions were designed to keep teams on track, divided into five key stages:
1. Problem & Target Market – Ensuring the problem and market segmentation were clearly defined
2. Solution Innovation & Unique Value Proposition – Validating the solution and its unique value
3. Revenue-Cost, Benefit & Impact – Assessing business value, cost, benefits, and impact
4. Delivery & Presentation, Leadership – Evaluating team readiness in delivering ideas confidently and demonstrating leadership
5. Team and Execution (Plan) – Measuring team cohesion and clarity of the execution roadmap
After successfully passing these stages, teams entered the main Hackathon session. Each team was allotted 10 minutes to present and 10 minutes for Q&A—a total of 20 minutes to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges acting as “investors.” Teams were required to clearly articulate the problems they aimed to solve, their target market, how their solution addressed the issue, its benefits and impact, and their unique value proposition—supported by prototypes, models, applications, or mockups.
The panel of judges included:
• Dr. Hanny Nurlatifah, M.M – Director of Innovation, Al-Azhar Indonesia University
• Dody Haryadi, S.T., M.Si – Lecturer & Innovation Practitioner
• Rahmad Fitriyanto – VP Platform Operation, Telin
• Wahyudi Handriyanto – VP Human Capital, Telin
• Deniar Akhmad – VP Product Innovation & Development, Telin
• Bentarto Budisetiawan – VP Enterprise Sales Development, Telin
• Ardian Atmaja – Head of Digital Product Development, Telin
With high energy, bold ideas, and an intensely collaborative atmosphere, Hackathon Telintrapreneur 2025 stood as a powerful symbol of the “from idea to impact” spirit—empowering the eight Telin teams to create solutions that are not only relevant but ready to drive real change.