From a Birthday Gift to a Higher Education Enabler

In 2022, I received a 16-year-old birthday gift from my mom that changed my life. It wasn’t a gadget nor a trip; it was a hosting and domain name, and when I took a look, it was just a blank website. She said, “If you can build something with this, maybe it can be your future.” That simple gift became the seed for Eduqette, a platform I founded to help Indonesian students access higher education, a problem I knew too well after struggling in elementary school myself.

Building Eduqette while attending high school in Japan, juggling school work, homework, language barriers, and platform development wasn’t just hard. It was lonely. because most of my friends had fun during the weekend, while I had to stick with my study and startup at the same time. I had to manage the website, database, social media, and also participate in many competitions to validate the business concept. But I kept going, driven by the hope that Eduqette could one day bridge the educational gap for other students like me.

There must be many other students encountering the same thing in their education journey. I’d like to make it simpler and easier for students, so that they can get the best education journey in life.