Telkom Indonesia's latest fund will invest up to $30m in domestic digital technology developers that will be able to connect to other state-owned corporations.

Indonesia-backed, government-owned telecommunications firm Telkom Indonesia has provided $500m for a technology investment fund to be run by its corporate venturing subsidiary, MDI Ventures, DealStreetAsia reported today.

MDI Ventures was originally founded in 2014 and officially launched two years later with $100m in capital to be deployed over a four-year period.

The unit invests in digital advertising and payment technology, cloud computing and big data, mobile apps and e-commerce, the internet of things and technologies that can influence the…

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