Continuum Data Indonesia · A consulting & research firm under INDEF · Jakarta

Understanding
Indonesian society,
through big data.— Listening to the internet 24/7, interpreted by economists who've read this country since 1995.

We pair INDEF's macroeconomic credibility with a proprietary AI engine that crawls social media, online news, and e-commerce — turning 10M+ daily conversations into policy-grade insight, dashboards, and decisions.

Trusted by
Bank IndonesiaKementerian PerdaganganKementerian PUPRBKKBNIndonesia Stock ExchangeToyotaKompas GramediaTransfezUniversitas ParamadinaKPK
01 / Practice

Four services, one engine.

From always-on data feeds to bespoke research, advisory work, and autonomous AI agents — every offering runs on the same crawler, the same AI engine, and the same INDEF economists.

01 · Subscription

Data Subscription

Always-on listening to Indonesian society through the internet — 24/7. Every signal our crawler collects is processed in real time by the AI engine and surfaced as live dashboards or feeds you can query.

  • Sentiment & emotion analysis
  • Bot/buzzer detection
  • Topic & trend extraction
  • Social network analysis
  • Live dashboards · API access
02 · Research & Reports

Research & Reports

Large-scale analyses compiled into deliverables — flagship IKON quarterlies, sector studies, public-policy briefs, and academic partnerships. One-off depth, validated by INDEF economists.

  • IKON quarterly series
  • Commissioned sector studies
  • Public-policy briefs
  • Academic partnerships & joint publications
  • Hybrid survey + digital methodology
03 · Advisory & Enablement

Advisory & Enablement

Strategy and architecture for institutions becoming data-driven — paired with the workshops that turn the strategy into capability inside your team.

  • Data strategy & architecture
  • Decision-making frameworks
  • Executive workshops
  • Analyst bootcamps
  • In-house enablement programs
04 · AI Agents

Autonomous AI for Your Institution

Intelligence that doesn't wait for instructions — AI agents built on our live data engine that monitor, decide, and act on your behalf, around the clock.

  • Reputation & risk signal monitoring
  • Regulatory change detection & alerts
  • Lead qualification & outreach automation
  • Internal knowledge & workflow agents
  • Custom agent design & deployment
02 / Infrastructure

Inside the AI engine.

Internet Crawler → AI Engine → Report & Dashboard. Trend identification, sentiment analysis, top buzzwords, emotion detection, bot detection, social network analysis — purpose-built for the Indonesian internet.

continuum.engine / pipelinev4.2 / 17 nodes
L1 · CRAWL
Internet CrawlerSocial media · online news · e-commerce (Shopee, Tokopedia)
24/7
L2 · CLEAN
Bot/Buzzer detectionML-based filtering for the real public voice
filtered
L3 · CORE
Continuum AI Enginetrend ID · sentiment · emotion · topic · location · buzzwords
●●●●
L4 · MODEL
Threat prediction & SNANLP classification · entity extraction · social network
ATHG-aware
L5 · SYNTH
INDEF economist review40 economists validate before delivery
human-in-loop
L6 · DELIVER
Reports · dashboards · subscriptionsIKON Reports · live dashboards · commissioned briefings

Built to listen — to all of Indonesia.

The Public Voices Listening Platform monitors topics, detects anomalies (early-warning), reads sentiment & emotion, and surfaces real public voices once bots and buzzers are filtered out.

The E-Commerce Intelligence Engine profiles products, prices, sellers, reviews and sales across Shopee, Tokopedia, and beyond.

The Threat Prediction module combines NLP text classification, entity extraction, and date/event extraction — anticipating Ancaman, Tantangan, Hambatan, Gangguan.

Listening
24/7 · social + news
E-commerce
Shopee · Tokopedia · +
Modules
Listening · eComm · Threat
Patents
2 international
Publications
3 int'l (text mining)
INDEF economists
40 · since 1995
03 / Track record

When the country needed a read, we had one.

Twelve years of work for the institutions setting Indonesian policy. A small selection.

Pilpres 2014 · Jokowi-JK vs. Prabowo-HattaN=10M+ TWEETS
KPU real count
53.15%
Continuum INDEF
53.76%
SMRC
52.98%
LSI
53.37%
Kompas QC
52.34%
CSIS
51.90%
Puskaptis
47.95%
KPU certified resultContinuum big-data methodSelisih: 0.61pp
Featured · ICDM Workshop 2015, Atlantic City

Predicted the 2014 presidential election within 0.61 points of the KPU result.

Working from 10M+ political tweets — first filtered for bots and paid/fantastic accounts — our methodology combined buzzer detection with sentiment analysis to identify candidate electability.

It outperformed every conventional quick-count survey including SMRC, LSI, Kompas, CSIS, and Puskaptis.

0.61pp
Selisih vs KPU real count
10M+
Tweets, post bot-filter
Continuum × Pemprov DKI Jakarta

Flood Monitoring — social media & news media dashboard.

Analyzing Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and the top 5 news portals: conversation volume, sentiment, topics, user profiling, popular hashtags, location, and Key Opinion Leaders for every Banjir Jakarta event.

Dashboard · ongoing
Continuum × Kementerian PUPR

Public satisfaction toward infrastructure policy.

Sentiment analysis and emotion detection on Twitter conversations — identifying public satisfaction for every PUPR policy. Delivered as the Pusaka PUPR satisfaction report.

Report
Continuum × BKKBN

Unplanned pregnancy growth during COVID-19.

Combining social media, Google Trends, and BKKBN data to read how COVID-19 pembatasan and pelonggaran PSBB affected unplanned pregnancy across the country.

Report
BK Perdag · Kementerian Perdagangan

Local UMKM penetration index across Indonesian marketplaces.

Using the E-Commerce Intelligence Engine to measure local-product penetration on Shopee, Tokopedia and beyond — plus monitoring of regulated commodity transactions.

Report
Continuum × Paramadina University

Big-data services for academic research (5 volumes).

Data and analytical services for Paramadina's big-data research program — sustainable fashion, Gen Z work choices, sharia banking awareness, and more.

Big Data · 5 vols
Continuum INDEF

Threat Prediction from internet data.

Predicting Ancaman, Tantangan, Hambatan, Gangguan through public-conversation listening combined with NLP-based text classification, entity extraction, and event extraction.

Dashboard
04 / Subscriptions

Three engines, continuously running.

The proprietary tooling behind every Continuum engagement — available as subscription, dashboard, or embedded into your decision flow.

Listening platform

Public Voices Listening Platform

Topic monitoring, early-warning anomaly detection, public-acceptance analysis, topic modelling, sentiment, emotion, and bot/buzzer detection — 24/7 from the Indonesian internet.

Subscription · annual or campaignRequest access →
E-commerce intel

E-Commerce Intelligence Engine

Continuum crawler → profile identification across Shopee, Tokopedia and beyond. Product data, price & sales data, review & rating data — ready for analysis.

Enterprise license · by categoryRequest demo →
Threat prediction

Threat Prediction Engine

An ML solution that anticipates Ancaman, Tantangan, Hambatan, Gangguan through internet data. Combines NLP text classification, date and entity extraction, future-event extraction, and threat-prediction scoring — delivered as a live dashboard.

Custom deployment · government & enterpriseRequest brief →
05 / People

Economists and engineers, under one roof.

A team that pairs INDEF's 40 economists — reading Indonesia since 1995 — with technologists who build and run the engine.

Didik J. Rachbini
Founder & Chairman, INDEF

Economist and former legislator who built INDEF into Indonesia's most-cited independent research institution. The intellectual foundation behind Continuum's policy-grade methodology.

Eko Listiyanto
Deputy Director, INDEF

Monetary and financial economist with deep expertise in Indonesia's banking sector and macroeconomic forecasting. Anchors the research credibility of the Continuum engine.

Arini Astari
Head of AI Initiatives

Computer scientist with a decade of engineering and consulting experience across Indonesia's tech sector. Leads Continuum's AI client practice — from scoping data strategies to delivering insight that government and corporate decision-makers can act on. M.Sc. in Technology Management, Columbia University.

Wahyu Tri Utomo
Data Scientist

Has been inside Continuum's data engine almost since day one — growing from analyst to scientist over four years embedded in the firm's models and pipelines. Machine learning practitioner and former data science tutor at Rakamin Academy. The person who knows the numbers best.

01

INDEF Network

40 economists — each in their respective field — contributing to the best solutions for Indonesia's economic and social problems since 1995. Plus a media network that amplifies every finding.

02

Hybrid & solution-based

When digital signals aren't enough, our service extension runs surveys with n-sized respondent pools. Internet data + traditional methods, depending on what the question demands.

03

Tech & big-data experts

Engineers and data scientists from NUS, Universitas Indonesia, ITB, and other top-tier universities — building the crawler, the AI engine, and every dashboard in-house.

06 / Library

Read what we publish — when we publish it.

Analysis, sentiment data, and economic research from the Continuum engine. Open-access.

IKON Report · published volumes
  1. 01Digital Bank Trend
  2. 02Ekonomi di Tahun Kedua Pandemi
  3. 03Persaingan Startup Teknologi
  4. 04Pola Konsumsi Pendapatan Selama PPKM
  5. 05Perubahan Pola Mobilitas dan Konsumsi Menuju Pemulihan Ekonomi
  6. 06Analisis Keterbukaan Kementerian di Era Digital w/ Melek APBN
  1. 07Isu Resesi 2023 w/ JakPat
  2. 08Kepuasan Masyarakat Terhadap Moda Transportasi Publik di Jabodetabek
  3. 09Evaluasi Pelaksanaan Mudik 2023 — Pendekatan Big Data
  4. 10Strategi Kebijakan Pengembangan Kendaraan Listrik
  5. 11Awareness Masyarakat terhadap Isu Lingkungan w/ Populix

Let's read Indonesia together.

Tell us what question you're trying to answer — we'll come back with a method and a number you can act on.