Luno Indonesia Country Manager, Wins Indonesia Young Business Leaders Award 2022

JAKARTA - Jay Jayawijayaningtiyas, Country Manager for Luno Indonesia was awarded the Indonesia Young Business Leaders Award 2022 for the Young Unit Business Leader Category.

Chief Editor of SWA Media, Kemal E. Gani presented the award to Jay virtually, Wednesday 27 April, to appreciate his impressive achievement as one of the outstanding young leaders in a company in Indonesia. Jay was chosen because he has shown visionary leadership and has succeeded in driving innovation that has a positive impact on the company's success.

Jay Jayawijayaningtiyas, Country Manager for Luno Indonesia, said that he was honored to have been awarded the Indonesia Young Business Leaders Award 2022 for the Young Business Unit Leader Category.

“I dedicate this award to the entire Luno Indonesia team who together continue to strive to ensure our customers have easy, safe and reliable access when investing in crypto assets. This award is also a form of appreciation for the development of the crypto industry in Indonesia, which shows that crypto asset investment platforms have begun to be widely known by the public," said Jay in his statement, Friday, April 29.

"Hopefully this achievement will continue to encourage us to innovate as well as facilitate and encourage education on crypto asset investment in Indonesia so that it is easy for anyone," added Jay.

Prior to joining Luno Indonesia as Country Manager in 2019, Jay, a graduate of Aerospace Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore, has worked for 9 years at Merrill Lynch & Macquarie Investment Bank in Singapore. In addition, Jay is also the Co-founder & CEO of Expertjasa, a technology startup in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Jay's decision to join Luno Indonesia is because he believes that in the next few years, crypto assets will have a big impact in Indonesia.

"Together with Luno, I feel we can do a lot to bring and continue to provide continuous education so that the Indonesian people can feel safe and confident in starting crypto asset investments," added Jay.

Under his leadership, Jay does have several targets to achieve, one of which is to provide education about crypto assets to the people of Indonesia. This is in line with Luno Indonesia's commitment to focus on providing education on the introduction of crypto assets to the general public, as well as the company's strategy to target new customers to become crypto asset investors.

The application made is easy to use and the choice of coins provided also only consists of 8 crypto assets in the blue chip category, namely Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), USD Coin. (USDC), Chainlink (LINK), and Uniswap (UNI).

Luno, is a global and trusted crypto asset investment platform that is simple to use by anyone who wants to invest in crypto assets specifically for the blue chip category, which is safer and has obtained legal status for trading from the Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency (BAPPEBTI).

Globally, Luno currently has more than 10 million customers in more than 40 countries and Indonesia is one of the largest markets with almost 1 million subscribers.

Indonesia has quickly become one of the big markets in Southeast Asia, which is characterized by the growing number of active crypto investors every year. To encourage sustainable growth, education about the security and legality of crypto assets for new customers in Indonesia is important and has been prioritized by Luno.

Crypto assets in Indonesia have been overseen by BAPPEBTI, which takes a progressive approach to regulating crypto asset-related regulations, and aims to protect customers in order to create a healthy, safe and responsible crypto asset investment industry ecosystem in Indonesia.

"In the future, our priority remains to ensure that our customers have easy and safe access to investing in crypto assets, and is supported by information and education about crypto assets," concluded Jay.