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Instellar Beyond Java: Empowering Women with MALA Ecotours

International Women’s Day is celebrated every March 8th throughout the world. It was inaugurated as an annual celebration by the United Nations in 1977 to celebrate all the achievements achieved by women in various fields, such as social, economic and cultural. As a form of support towards women’s empowerment, Instellar cooperates with MALA Ecotours and […]

August 8, 2026 8 min read

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CEO Reflections: On taking a step back to move forward

Throughout 2022, Instellar was entrusted by multistakeholders to help more impact entrepreneurs. At the beginning of the year, we collaborated with the UK-Indonesia Tech Hub to organize CybHER, a program that aims to educate and empower Indonesian women through cybersecurity transformation. We were also entrusted by IKEA Social Entrepreneurship to run Instellar & IKEA Indonesia […]

August 8, 2026 8 min read

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Instellar Indonesia and GSMA Mobile Innovation Hub Support 10 Indonesian Startups to Innovate Sustainably Through the Energy Action for Sustainable Transformation (EAST) Program

JAKARTA, 17 March 2023 – Instellar Indonesia and GSMA are holding the GSMA Mobile Innovation Hub: Energy Action for Sustainable Transformation (GSMA MIH EAST) program. This collaboration is carried out through the GSMA Mobile Innovation Hub, created in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft fĂĽr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation […]

August 8, 2026 8 min read

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Instellar Today and To Come

Since its founding in 2017, Instellar has worked on various projects and programs as a catalyst, connector and platform for the community to develop business ecosystems and social entrepreneurship. Instellar provides a variety of curriculum for incubation and acceleration programs, offers professional guidance and understands the goals of each company by implementing the best program […]

August 8, 2026 8 min read

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CEO & COO Notes: Navigating uncertainty in 2023

Romy Cahyadi and Adisti Chandra share tips on how to tackle challenges and uncertainty in 2023. Global crisis and inflation have become a hot topic among business people and business in the export-import sector has started to feel the impact. Strengthening the domestic economy is one of the keys to surviving global crisis, and Indonesia […]

August 8, 2026 8 min read

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The Blue Finance Accelerator the Joint initiative of UNDP and ADB launches call for applications to entrepreneurs tackling blue sector challenges in Indonesia

Jakarta, December 15th, 2022 – The Blue Finance Accelerator (BFA), presented by The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Asian Development Bank (ADB), in collaboration with the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime and Investment Affairs and Instellar Indonesia, and supported by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), has launched its call for applications for early-staged SMEs/Startups developing solutions […]

August 8, 2026 8 min read

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Sampangan and DuAnyam Crowned at B20 Sustainability 4.0 Awards

Sampangan and Du Anyam were crowned at the B20 Sustainability 4.0 Awards for an award in Reduction and Reuse of Plastics Category and Women in Sustainability Initiative Category respectively. Sampangan, a sustainable waste company that converts waste into value for circular economy, is a SEED Accelerator graduate. SEED Accelerator is a program implemented by Instellar […]

August 8, 2026 8 min read

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SEED Replicator Workshop in Yogyakarta

Around 30 participants from circular economy and agriculture sectors joined SEED Replicator Workshop in Yogyakarta last week. During the two-day workshop, participants deep dived into the business models and toolkits used by real-world eco-inclusive enterprises then used them as reference for their own business. Day 1 On Friday, 18 November 2022, the SEED Replicator participants […]

August 8, 2026 8 min read

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The Importance Role of Hands-on Support in The I-SEA Program

For most social entrepreneurs, challenges often beset them with respect to limited resources and access to mentorship, putting pressure to scale for more societal benefit. In these battles, supportive programs like the Instellar & IKEA Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator (I-SEA) become indispensable. It is because of this strong framework of support and guidance that I-SEA shall not only […]

August 8, 2026 8 min read