BRICS Industrial Innovation Contest 2025: Excellence Award

Terang AI was recognised at the BRICS Industrial Innovation Contest 2025, receiving an Excellence Award for Terang.AI: Democratizing Access to an AI-Driven Learning Ecosystem for Everyone's Success.

What the contest is

The BRICS Industrial Innovation Contest is run by the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution (PartNIR) Innovation Base together with China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. It exists to surface industrial innovation projects from across the BRICS countries and deepen industrial cooperation between them. The 2025 edition centred on artificial intelligence, the low-altitude economy, and green industry.

Where and when

The Indonesian round was held on 15 August 2025 at Universitas Podomoro in Jakarta, under the theme "Unleashing BRICS Cooperation Potential, Realizing Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization." Close to forty teams entered, assessed by a ten-expert jury over a week of evaluation.

It was the first major industrial innovation competition held in Indonesia since the country joined the BRICS cooperation mechanism in January 2025.

What was entered

The submission was Terang AI itself, entered by Terang Inovasi Indonesia. The argument was that an AI-driven learning ecosystem can be built to widen access to education rather than concentrate it further among those who can already afford it. The team was Muhamad Fahriza Novriansyah, Alfian Firmansyah, and Syahrul Hidayat.

Why it is worth noting

Education technology does not usually turn up in an industrial innovation contest, which is mostly the domain of manufacturing, robotics, and materials. Being assessed on those terms, as industrial capability rather than as a social programme, was the useful part. Access to education is infrastructure. It is reasonable to have it judged that way.