Papon: Pariwisata Pontianak, a game to promote Pontianak tourism. 

It's highly needed, because, based on the discussion done by researchers with Badan Promosi Pariwisata Kota Pontianak in 2018, it shows that promotional content of Pontianak City is not varied enough and the information is not centralized yet. In align, based on Badan Pusat Statistik Pontianak, this case affects the number of foreign and local tourists of Pontianak City low compared to other cities in Indonesia. 

Of all factors, publication plays a beneficial role. By realizing that point, we come up with an approach which is popular and well accepted to most people; a smartphone game. 

Therefore, the idea brings a solution to promote tourism and the local market through a game called Papon (Pariwisata Pontianak). 

Our team consists of people who are actively contributing to society through volunteer activities and startups in Pontianak. 

The platform that we will create is a smartphone application consisting of following features:
- tourism information
- comic about tourism
- points to purchase in the local market
- collection of tourism games 

We create a fun platform that makes people enjoy to learn and share with others. By this way, our hope, tourism can be well promoted. 

The game inside the application is an endless runner game, where a player needs to run as far as possible to get a high score, then they need to answer several questions about tourism so they will get the powerup.

Inside the game, they can exchange the points they get to purchase a discount with a local market in West Borneo, so they will have the desire to buy and be proud of using local products. All kinds of game will be updated periodically.

We have made beta testing that runs in the Android system very well and intuitive. So far, we have input some tourist attractions and made some icons within it.
bit.ly/PaponSidang

We need some coaching about business, tourism, and technology, to make this game sustains. Especially to build a networking with local markets to be partnered within the game. 

GameForTourism

Papon: Pariwisata Pontianak, A Game to Promote Tourism and Local Market of Pontianak

Apa yang kamu ketahui tentang Pontianak? Sekarang saatnya untuk Explore Pontianak! Gimana caranya? Tidak, kamu tidak harus beli tiket pesawat untuk kesana kok. Kamu bisa mengetahui Pontianak hanya dengan main aplikasi game.

Bagaimana ya cara sebuah game dapat memperkenalkan Kota Pontianak? Yuk cari tahu di acara Papon The Explorer, pada hari Rabu, 13 November 2019, pukul 15.30 - selesai, di @atamerica, Pacific Place Mall, Jakarta.

Link pendaftaran : http://bit.ly/paponlaunching 

Pontianak  is calling, play now! #PaponTheExplorer #PontianakIsCalling #PaponIndonesia

PAPON The Explorer : Pontianak is calling, play now! 

Halo teman Papon. 

Kali ini Papon pengen sharing tentang event yang diikuti Papon beberapa bulan kemarin. 

Salah satunya adalah event UNTAN Digital Startup Festival 2019, yang diadakan pada bulan Mei kemarin di Perpustakaan Pusat Universitas Tanjungpura. 

Di event ini, Papon menunjukkan / display prototype game Papon untuk bisa dimainkan oleh pengunjung. Papon senang sekali karena mendapat feedback positif dan dukungan dari teman-teman di Pontianak. 

Stay tuned untuk update-an event-event yang diikuti atau diadakan oleh Papon ya! 

Your home is calling, play now! 

Papon Recap: Digital Startup Festival 2019 

#BukberLawar. Kata “Lawar” diambil dari bahasa melayu yang artinya

“keren”. Kami ingin memberi challenge selama Ramadhan ke kamu, untuk buka bersama dengan versi kerennya kamu; misal,

1. buka bersama sekaligus mengadakan kegiatan sosial seperti charity

2. buka bersama di tempat wisata dengan konsep lesehan dan makan bareng, 

3. dan/atau buka bersama sambil menjalankan habit baru, salah satunya habit untuk membawa kotak bekal, botol, dan sedotan sendiri ketika bukber di luar dalam rangka peduli lingkungan.

dan lain-lain.

Kamu bisa buka bersama dengan keren versi kamu. 

Di slide kedua dan ketiga, itu contoh #BukberLawar dengan tema "No Handphone" dan "tumpuk di tengah". Jadi #BukberLawar versi mereka adalah bukber dengan teman tanpa terganggu oleh handphone, dan membiasakan untuk selalu tumpuk di tengah selesai makan.

Jadi kamu bisa memberi inspirasi juga ke teman-teman lain untuk bisa ngikutin trend #BukberLawar versi kamu. Dan ada banyak hadiah keren menanti loh, kalau kamu ikutan campaign ini. Hadiah menarik khas kota Pontianak! 😊

Cara ikutan :

1. Download aplikasi Campaign.com di Appstore atau Playstore

2. Join kampanye #GameForTourism

3. Klik ‘Act’ dan upload foto Buka Puasa ‘Keren’ versimu

4. Tulis caption tentang kegiatan yang kamu lakukan pada foto tersebut dan klik tanda ceklis

5. Bagikan postingan kamu sebanyak-banyaknya, ajak teman-temanmu untuk ikutan, dan love postingan kamu.

Kami tunggu foto-foto #BukberLawar versi kamu dengan teman/keluarga mu ya! 😊

#BukberLawar, Buka Bersama yang "lawar" (keren) Versi Kamu


Halo, Changemakers! 

Nama ku Maudina Tri Hartasya, bisa dipanggil Dina. Saat ini aku menjadi Chief Marketing Officer dari salah satu Social Enterprise bernama Papon. 

Papon adalah aplikasi game yang bertujuan untuk mempromosikan pariwisata dan produk-produk lokal yang ada di Pontianak. 

Berasal dari keresahan kami, kalau Pontianak belum menjadi list pilihan destinasi wisata bagi orang-orang Indonesia atau pun luar negeri (jika dibanding dengan kota-kota besar Indonesia yang lain), dan masih banyak tempat wisata yang belum terekspos, akhirnya tercetus lah untuk membuat aplikasi game Papon. 

Sarana untuk Promosi dan menunjukkan tempat-tempat wisata Pontianak dengan cara yang menarik, yaitu melalui game. 

Papon akhirnya dijalankan sebagai Social Enterprise baru yaitu pada Januari 2019. Dan akhirnya kami memulai kegiatan pertama kami dengan ikut kegiatan dari Campaign X US embassy, yaitu Young Changemakers Social Enterprise (YCSE) Academy. Di acara ini kami mengembangkan business model kami, sekaligus menunjukkan prototype kami. 

Saat ini kami dalam tahap pengembangan prototype kami untuk menjadi aplikasi game yang utuh. Target kami, akhir tahun ini, kami akan launching aplikasi game kami. Doakan ya! 

Buat teman-teman yang penasaran sama Papon dan ingin bertanya-tanya, silakan drop pertanyaan kalian di bawah ya. 😊 atau kalian juga bisa nanya aku secara personal ke akun aku ya : @tasyadina 😊

Game untuk Promosi Pariwisata, Kenapa Enggak? Cari Tahu Selengkapnya Bareng Tim Papon! 

Sedikit "bocoran" tampilan dari aplikasi Papon (masih beta app). Papon hadir di acara Mini Exhibition, Young Changemakers Social Enterprise (YCSE) Academy bootcamp, Lembang. 

Beta app ini sudah coba dimainkan oleh teman-teman dari campaign, US embassy, dan PLUS (Platform Usaha Sosial). Kami menerima banyak sekali respon dan feedback yang baik. 

Teman-teman penasaran ingin coba main? Update terus berita tentang Papon ya! 

Sneak Peek of Papon

Photo credit: instagram campaign 

It's a wrap for day 3!!

Day 3 was amazing. We started the day 3 with pitching practice, guided by instellar, campaign, and representatives of us embassy. We got a lot of feedback which really help us. 

And after that, we learnt Cause Marketing (how to define and create the cause Marketing, social media usage, social media content, and visual content) from campaign for six hours but it's worth it, because at the end of the session of this cause Marketing, we did the worksheet that give us a view how to manage the marketing way that we do. It helps us a lot.

And today's session was ended with dinner and karaoke. Today is the last day we stay in Trizara resort. Tomorrow we will be heading back to Jakarta, for pitching in @america. 

Wish us luck! 
See you! 

Cheers, 
Papon 

Day 3 of YCSE Academy 

It's a wrap for day 2!

We can say that today we got a lot of beneficial knowledge that is really needed for our Social Enterprises. 

First class, we continued the Social Business Model Canvas (SBMC) lesson that have been learnt yesterday. All the finalists presented their SBMC, and each finalists must be reviewed by PLUS, campaign team, and other finalists. Including ours. Papon also presented our SBMC and we received a lot of good feedback and advices. We are really thankful for insightful feedbacks. It helps us a lot to improve. 

After that, second class until the last class, the speaker wasn't PLUS anymore, but the next classes was delivered by the representative of instellar. 

We learnt about Sustainability, types of funding, making mission statement. Making mission statement was challenging. It should contain verbs, target population, the impacted change from our Social Enterprise. And then, we learnt about how to make Value Proposition Canvas. For us, it's really beneficial to plotting the real value of our Social Enterprise. Lucky that we have been given a chance to learn about Value Proposition Canvas, which is, something that we really need. 

After that, the most challenging one of today was, preparing our pitch deck! It's almost frustrating to sort out which one needs to be said or not, because the time given for the upcoming pitching is limited. So from today, we learnt about pitching, and prepare a preparation for the upcoming presentation in @america this Saturday. 

For us, one of the biggest thing we see from day 2 was... All finalists are really serious to develop their Social Enterprises. We all have different types of Social Enterprises, we are really aware about the issue that we want to solve, we are really eager to create an impact. So for this session, we want to appreciate all the hard work for all finalists. 

And then we also appreciate for PLUS and Instellar who helped us a lot. All the lesson that they shared are something that we really need. It's really a priceless opportunity and knowledge. 

Tomorrow is the last day of our stay in Lembang. The deadline for our pitch presentation is approaching. The event is about to end in these two or three days. 

But we are excited for the next class that we still have for tomorrow. 

Stay tune to our story! 

Cheers, 
Papon 

Day 2 of YCSE Academy

It's a wrap for day 1! 

It's really a pleasure for Papon to be accepted as 10 finalists of Young Changemakers Social Enterprises (YCSE) Academy. And today, was the first day of the bootcamp. Curious what did we do during the first day? Let us tell you! 

We did learn so much about Social Enterprises in the first day. It was started with Pretest, and then Mini Presentation. 

The Mini Presentation was challenging. We were given one minute to do a presentation, and then, our presentation was seen by some representatives from US Embassy. 

After the Presentation, there was a mini exhibition. All the Social Enterprises sat on their table and showed up their products. For Papon itself, we put our gadgets on the table and then let people play our prototype. Not only the US Embassy, but our exhibition was visited by the representatives of PLUS. 

Then, the first class was started after lunch. The speakers were from PLUS. It was about Social Entrepreneurship 101.

Second class was about "Theory of Change". Third class was about Life Map. And the last class of the day was about, Social Business Model Canvas. 

Was it boring? Not at all! 

There were some reason:
1. The theme was delivered properly by PLUS.
2. Campaign team has managed the event with some fun interaction between the classes. So there were time, we, the finalists, played the game, sing along together, and many more. 
3. The exercise after each class was so intense, yet it was a great experience for us!
4. And don't forget the food! It was yummyyyyy! 

What we got today was more than what we expected! 

The most important thing for us is actually the classes. But we are not bombarded with many theories and theories without action. But we did a lot of practice and have some intense discussion with the speakers and the team of PLUS. 

We went back to our room about 9 pm. It was a long day, but it's worth it.

Can't wait for the Day 2!

Stay tune to our story! 

Cheers, 
Papon.

Day 1 of YCSE Academy 

Papon is a game-based enterprise that focuses on promoting tourism in Pontianak city with a fun way, easy to be played by people in all range of age, and shows a clear view about Pontianak tourism. Pontianak has a lot of potential in tourism yet, it still lack of publication. People outside Pontianak, even Pontianak people don't really know Pontianak Tourism spots well. That's why we want to introduce it through a game, which is popular and well accepted to most people. And we try to be partnered and connected with local markets, so not only get a point, but we contribute to promote the local markets to people, and people also get benefit by getting discount from the merchants.

Our impact is not only about promote tourism, but also on the local market economical issue. Pontianak city is still unknown even for Indonesian people, so we have a deep concern to make Pontianak is being known, since Pontianak city has some historical places that worth to visit, and some local products that worth to have. Local market is still a top issue in Pontianak and need a lot of efforts to solve it. Because Pontianak people tend to be consumptive, yet consumptive to modern markets and products. 

You can try the prototype of the game through this link bit.ly/PaponSidang

Vote Papon for YCSE Academy

#1: Introduce your initiative and team 

Papon is a game-based enterprise that focuses on promoting tourism in Pontianak city with a fun way, easy to be played by people in all range of age, and shows a clear view about Pontianak tourism. Pontianak has a lot of potential in tourism yet, it still lack of publication. People outside Pontianak, even Pontianak people don't really know Pontianak Tourism spots well. That's why we want to introduce it through a game, which is popular and well accepted to most people. And we try to be partnered and connected with local markets, so not only get a point, but we contribute to promote the local markets to people, and people also get benefit by getting discount from the merchants.

Our team consists of passionate people to give impact to society that come from different background and field with missions: promote Pontianak tourism in an effective way, raise awareness about tourism for local people where they should be the ambassadors of this city, and attract many people to visit Pontianak.

1. Dimas Apriyandy as Lead Programmer / founder. He has a degree of Informatics Engineering, and for the past few years is actively volunteering about many issues, such as tourism. He created this game at the beginning as an effort to boost Pontianak tourism. He will lead the smartphone application and game application maintenance and update. 

2. Ryan Oktafiandi as Chief of Sales. Partner maintenance is such a delightful job. This will surely enlarge the social impact to most aspects of life. Currently, he is in charge of a social project where partnership is always on top list. By that, he will be responsible for any network and partnership with local markets as merchants. Besides, he will in charge of relationship maintenance in such a way to keep the cooperation.

3. Maudina Tri Hartasya as Chief of Marketing. As she has experienced to manage the business flow of a local company in Pontianak, and has involved in some marketing research, she will responsible for business flow, and marketing strategy physically and virtually for Papon.

#2: Describe your initiatives and good impact

1. Tourism Issues
a. Pontianak has low number of Tourists, at 2016 the tourists of Pontianak is only 18,38% compared to Jogjakarta.
b. Tourism information in Pontianak is not centralized yet, so it's hard to get information about Pontianak."
c. There is no interactive content to promote Pontianak City tourism.
d. People from Indonesia and outside Indonesia don't really know about Pontianak city, based on questionnaire.
e. International tourist that come to Pontianak are mostly only from neighbour countries, such as Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam.

2. Local market / Small Medium Enterprises (SME) issues
a. According to Kepala Dinas Koperasi, Usaha Mikro, dan Perdagangan (Diskumdag), Small Medium Enterprises (SME) in Pontianak has reached 17.000 SMEs. 7.000 of them has been legalised. 

b. But only 40 local products that have entered the modern market. So people in Pontianak can't get direct access to local products easily and not all SMEs are reachable by people. That's why people still tend to go to modern market instead of SMEs.

c. By our game, we want people to get direct access to local markets and products, and it will trigger the SME to improve the quality of products, to be chosen by people.

3. Smartphone productivity and game
a. Based on Kominfo data, 84,4% Indonesian has cellphone, and 44,1% of them use the internet to play and download game. (Kominfo, 2016)
b. Publication through media and website haven't attracted local people to open it. And even it still lack of updated publication. So we want to create something fun that not only increase the publication and awareness, and it involves the participation of people directly, through a game. 

Our mission is to create creative and innovative media to promote Pontianak city tourism, and local market. Through an interactive contents people will get more involved, and indirectly adding knowledge about Pontianak city to the players. The missions consists of:
1. Smartphone application, it is an application that will store all of the information about tourism, comic about tourism, game, and points of local market.
2. Comic, an innovation to make people interested to learn more about the information.
3. Games, collections of game that will be a various kinds of games about Pontianak city.
4. Points of local market, points that player get will get stored in application. The points can get exchange for a discount in a local market.

#3: Your initiative's success story

The platforms that we are making are supported by various parties. To make sure we are delivering the best experiences to community, we are asking advice to IESPA (Indonesia e-Sports Association) Kalbar in context of gaming experiences. We also had an discussion with Badan Promosi Pariwisata Kalbar, get a good feedback from government, and right now we are preparing for the collaborations. For the local market, we got an offering from local transportation startup, and currently in the middle of discussion with them. We are not officially launched the game yet, but fortunately we receive a really good feedback from community. We are going to keep the trusts from everyone and will keep improving to make this bigger.

#4: why we have to choose your team as the participant in this academy? 

Our impact is not only about promote tourism, but also on the local market economical issue. Pontianak city is still unknown even for Indonesian people, so we have a deep concern to make Pontianak is being known, since Pontianak city has some historical places that worth to visit, and some local products that worth to have. Local market is still a top issue in Pontianak and need a lot of efforts to solve it. Because Pontianak people tend to be consumptive, yet consumptive to modern markets and products. 

Our impacts: 
1. All the Pontianak tourist spots will be introduced / published well through the game. And it will be updated if the spots have some changes. 
2. The points that players get within the game can be easily used to access and buy the local products. 
3. Local markets and local products can use this platform to promote the new products that they made. 
4. This game is considered as an education game too, so the players will be more knowledgeable and do not get many negative effect when they play this game. 
5. This game can be played by people in all range of age. But for parents who want to give education games only to their children, they can consider this game to be played. 

Right now, we are on the processing to update some contents and icons, building the networking with some parties. We hope that, through this Academy, we can get many beneficial knowledge and support from the expertise to make this platform work well and achieve the objectives.

You can try the prototype of the game through this link bit.ly/PaponSidang


Assignments:

#1: Apa yang didapat dari Coaching Class 1?

From the coaching class 1, we have learned how to make a good proposal and business plan, since business plan is an important thing if we want to pitch our business to investors, grants, or other parties. 
The speaker explained that the first thing is, we have to know our target and goal. And he explained about 12 things that need to be written and input to our business plan, such as business description, problem that we want to solve, innovation that we offer, SWOT Analysis, team, financial projection, etc. 
And then the language that we have to use must be clear, concise, and informative. 
All that’s been explained by the speakers from Evoware were so practical and easy to be followed.

#2 Apa yang didapat dari Coaching Class 2?

Coaching class #2 is basically about burgreen's experience in over 5 years of establishment. Ms. Helga, the owner, said that if you have a start up and you can survive on the 5 first years, your business will grow. 

Ms Helga gave us 5 do's for getting started a start up as follows:
1. Finding your why & aligning to your business. (Passion + generate money = social needs)
2. If you want to have partners or team, at the very first time you need to consider is their behaviour. In a first year, you may test them.
3. Make a public fair before make a deal with partners. It is like an agreement for both you --the owner-- and partners. This will prevent bad cooperation ruin your business.
4. Learn as much as possible. You should read books, come to any workshop, have mentors.
5. Put your ideas into a story. Story telling is the best marketing ever and very attractive to interest your market

#3: Business Plan berdasarkan coaching class 1-3!

http://bit.ly/BusinessPlanPapon

#4: Apa yang didapat dari Coaching Class 4?

In this coaching class, we learned about how to measure the social impact. What Mr. Romy explained is really helpful, especially for us; as a new player on sociopreneur to measure the social impact and right on the point so that our sociopreneur could sustain. 

According to Mr. Romy's explanation, he explained that, before have to set the goal first. To create the goal, we could use the "Star Method". The method must contain 3 things:
a. Contain verb 
b. Specific target population 
c. Ultimate outcome 

Mr. Romy revealed some goals/slogan from big companies to give us a view, what kind of goal that we have to make and contain those 3 things that we have written above. 

He also gave us a mini assignment to make our own goal with maximum 8 words. 

After that, second step is, determine 3 measurements.
a. The specific amount of target population. 
b. The measurement to measure the quality of our created social impact. 
c. Find the measurement in business aspect to measure the improvement of our social enterprise's side. 




Papon: Pariwisata Pontianak, A Game to Promote Tourism and Local Market of Pontianak

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