Indonesia Launches Own Metaverse to Promote Its Small Businesses

Telkom Indonesia has launched the “metaNesia” virtual world.

Source: PT Telkom Indonesia 

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Indonesia has tasked the state carrier with creating a metaverse to promote local firms that compete with foreign services, its latest effort to take back control of the internet from Google and Facebook.

PT Telkom Indonesia launched “metaNesia,” a virtual world meant to help Southeast Asia’s largest economy adapt to the fast-changing online landscape frequented by its young population, State-Owned Enterprises Minister Erick Thohir said in a statement.