Up Six Places, Indonesia's Digital Competitiveness is in 45th Position in the World

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JAKARTA - Based on World Digital Competitiveness Ranking (WDCR 2023) research conducted by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) from Switzerland, Indonesia's digital competitiveness has risen to 45th position in the world.

In this way, Indonesia's digital competitiveness rose six places from its previous position of 51st in the world in 2022. In fact, in five years, Indonesia managed to climb up to 11 places.

"In 2019, Indonesia was in 56th position and has now risen to 45th in the world. "This shows the success of significant digital transformation improvements," said Professor Arturo Bris, Director of the IMD World Competitiveness Center (WCC) which carried out the research.

Furthermore, this research also shows that Indonesia has a higher level of digital competitiveness compared to a number of other Asian countries.

Where India is ranked 49th, the Philippines is ranked 59th, and Mongolia is ranked 63rd. Meanwhile in the Southeast Asia region, Indonesia is still far behind compared to Singapore in 3rd place, Malaysia in 33rd place, and Thailand in 35th place.

Meanwhile, the top five countries out of a total of 64 countries in the world with high digital competitiveness are the United States, the Netherlands, Singapore, Denmark and Switzerland.