Binar Academy

BINAR (Binar Academy) is an Indonesia-based technology talent and digital transformation provider. Its offering is organised into three service lines: Capacity Building (corporate training and employee upskilling, innovation programs, competency roadmaps and competency mapping), Tech Consulting (CTO-as-a-service, custom software development and AI technology integration delivered through a consultative, data-based approach), and Tech Talent Solutions (IT headhunting and IT outsourcing, with a stated ability to place IT talent within seven days and a talent replacement guarantee).

The company began as a technology bootcamp operator. It was founded in 2017 with the stated mission of advancing Indonesia's technology ecosystem and closing the education gap, and offered 16-week part-time online bootcamps in areas such as data science, full-stack and front-end web development, UX/UI research and design, product management, digital marketing and QA engineering. Bootcamp students were offered installment payments, free introductory courses, and career services including portfolio building, interview practice, soft-skills development and job networking, with possible placement through an employer network. The current positioning emphasises AI adoption, with published material on hybrid cloud, zero trust architecture and data governance, and public-sector AI upskilling programs.

Founding story

Binar Academy was founded in 2017 by Alamanda Shantika, previously Vice President of Product at Gojek — where she worked on the company's mobile application — and earlier Head of Product Development Engineering at the payments company Kartuku. She established the education startup to cultivate new programmers in Indonesia and connect them with corporations, and serves as Founder and President Director.

Business model

BINAR sells services to organisations across three lines — corporate training/capacity building, technology consulting and custom software development, and IT outsourcing and headhunting — and has historically also sold paid bootcamp programs to individual learners, including installment payment options and free introductory courses.

Fee-based revenue from corporate training and capacity-building programs, technology consulting and software development engagements, IT outsourcing and headhunting placements, and bootcamp tuition payable in installments.

Traction

Public figures on the company site cite more than 350 client partners, over 2,000,000 professionals trained in digital and AI skills, and more than 500 tech talents placed across industries. Delivered engagements include AI training programs for Indonesian civil servants with Microsoft Elevate and BKN, upskilling workshops for Tugu Insurance, training for Indosat, UI/UX design mindset training for Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia, and a professional preparation program with Tanoto Foundation. Its bootcamp holds an average rating of 4.38 from 10 alumni reviews on Course Report.

Latest developments

Recent activity centres on public-sector AI upskilling: with Microsoft Elevate and BKN, BINAR supports the GARUDA AI program offering free AI training targeted at 145,000 Indonesian civil servants, with a stated ambition of 100,000 civil servants learning AI toward the Indonesia Emas 2045 vision; more than 800 civil servants in Depok have taken part, and Kemenko PMK has collaborated with BINAR and Microsoft Elevate on a related program.