Fajrin Rasyid, Bukalapak's Co-Founder, Who Is Now A Director At Telkom

Muhammad Fajrin Rasyid (Instagram @Fajrinrasyid)

JAKARTA - PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk (Telkom) has appointed the Co-founder and President of Bukalapak Muhammad Fajrin Rasyid, as the new Telkom Digital Director. This decision was taken at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGMS) this afternoon.

Summarized from a number of online media pages, Fajrin will replace Faizal R. Djoemadi as Telkom's Digital Business Director. "Yes, being a digital director," said a source who did not want to be named, Friday, June 19.

Meanwhile, the position of President Director of Telkom will still be held by Ririek Adriansyah. Telkom itself has indeed held an AGMS meeting since noon, with a number of discussions related to dividend distribution and changes in the composition of the company's management.

If seen, the appointment of Fajrin Rasyid is not new. Especially since last Saturday, Minister for State-Owned Enterprises Erick Thohir once touched on the idea of making the younger generation or millennials one of the directors of a BUMN company.

The former Inter Milan boss wants BUMN to be an inclusive company and is not dominated by certain groups. 'I believe in the change of the younger generation. That's why Telkom will have one of its directors under 40 years old, "said Erick in one of the virtual discussions.

Who is Fajrin?

Long before Fajrin Rasyid became Digital Director at Telkom. He was previously known as one of Bukalapak's founders.

Fajrin was recorded as being born in Jakarta on September 11, 1986. The field of telecommunications is nothing new for Fajrin, before he founded Bukalapak, this ITB Informatics Engineering graduate was a Web Developer at Indosat in 2007.

After that, he chose to resign and founded e-commerce startup Bukalapak together with Ahmad Zaky and Nugroho Herucahyono, his college friends at ITB. The three friends then succeeded in growing Bukalapak and attracting global and local investors to inject funds.

One proof of the success of these three friends is to bring Bukalapak to become a unicorn startup or have a valuation of above US $ 1 billion. CBInsights has calculated that Bukalapak's valuation has reached US $ 2.5 billion or equivalent to Rp. 35 trillion (assuming Rp. 14,000 / dollar).