Ruangguru founder Belva Devara (left) with President Joko Widodo
Ruangguru CEO Belva Devara left his presidential special staff role, stating concern over the public’s opinion
Belva Devara, CEO of Indonesian edutech startup Ruangguru, announced that he has left his presidential special staff position effectively after submitting his resignation letter on April 15, 2020 to President Jokowi.
Devara posted its official statement on his Instagram account.
According to Kompas.com, Devara decided after the appointment of Ruangguru as the official provider of Kartu Pra Kerja triggered a backlash in the country. Kartu Pra Kerja (pre-employment card) is a government programme aimed at people, who are jobless or have just lost their income, to provide training and incentives.
Devara said that there is no conflict of interest in the appointment because the required verification for the programme was done before the company was appointed.
“I don’t wish to cause any more false assumptions with regards to my position in Presidential Special Staff and possibly divert the focus from handling COVID-19 pandemic,” said Bevara.
Hong Kong’s recruitment platform Talkpush raises funding to expand to Latin America
Hong Kong-based recruitment platform Talkpush has announced that it has raised an undisclosed amount of investment from Singapore-incorporated, Colombia-based Latin Leap.
It will use the funding to set foot in Latin America and introduce its Felipe Bot over the next few months.
According to TechInAsia, Latin Leap is a venture capital studio that aims to open up opportunities in Latin America for Asian startups.
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Vietnam receives Facebook’s approval in restricting anti-government content
After spending months of throttling, Facebook has finally agreed to block access to certain anti-government content to users in Vietnam, as reported by TechCrunch.
Vietnam requested earlier this year that Facebook restrict a variety of content it deemed illegal, such as posts critical of the government. When the social media giant didn’t comply, the country slowed its traffic to unusable levels for around seven weeks by controlling the local network providers.
At that time, Facebook said that undersea cable maintenance had caused the slowdown of its products such as Messenger and Instagram. But it failed to convince the public.
Facebook conceded to the government’s demands. A source is reportedly said that “once we committed to restricting more content, the servers were turned back online by the telecommunications operators.”
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