Cipto Adiguno
Indonesian game-industry executive who co-founded Bandung studio Ekuator Games, became a Vice President at its acquirer Agate, chaired the Indonesian Game Association from 2019 to 2024, and co-founded the publishing accelerator Indiesche Partners in 2025.
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- Country
- Indonesia
- Known for
- Co-founder of Ekuator Games; former Vice President of Consumer Games and later Chief Strategy Officer at Agate; Chairman of the Indonesian Game Association (AGI), 2019-2024
- Current venture
- Co-founder of Indiesche Partners, a publishing accelerator for Indonesian and Southeast Asian indie game studios, launched in 2025
- Industry advocacy
- As AGI chairman, publicly credited with the association's rollout of Indonesia's game-rating system (IGRS) with the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, the Archipelageek program with the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, annual Game Prime events, and national game-industry competency standards (SKKNI)
Overview
Cipto Adiguno is an Indonesian game-industry executive best known as a co-founder of Ekuator Games, the Bandung studio behind the “Celestian Tales” role-playing game series (kumparan.com). When Agate acquired Ekuator on January 5, 2019 for approximately Rp5 billion, Adiguno became Agate’s Vice President of Consumer Games (Bisnis Indonesia). He went on to lead Indonesia’s national game-industry trade association and later co-founded a publishing venture for regional indie studios.
Chairman of the Indonesian Game Association
By June 2021, Adiguno was serving as Ketua Umum (Chairman) of Asosiasi Game Indonesia (AGI), a term detikInet described as running “periode 2019-2024”; he told the outlet the association’s main achievements had been co-developing Indonesia’s game-rating system (IGRS) with the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, running the “Archipelageek” program with the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, holding annual “Game Prime” industry events, and drafting national competency standards (SKKNI) for game-industry workers (detikInet). In January 2024, as government discussion of a presidential regulation on the domestic game industry advanced, Adiguno told ANTARA News, “Kami sangat-sangat mendukung adanya Perpres ini, dan kita harap bisa secepatnya diterbitkan” (We strongly support this regulation and hope it can be issued soon), arguing it would help align previously conflicting government programs (ANTARA News Mataram). Later that month, he told the gaming outlet IndoGamers that a proposal requiring game publishers to hold a formal Indonesian legal entity had not actually been submitted to the Ministry of Law and Human Rights and remained only at an early discussion stage (IndoGamers).
At the August 8, 2024 launch of Indonesia’s “Hari Game Nasional” (National Game Day), tied to the implementation of Presidential Regulation No. 19 of 2024 on accelerating the national game industry, Adiguno told VOI that a number of Indonesian games were succeeding internationally, “especially in coal markets such as the United States and Europe,” particularly in horror, relaxation and visual-novel genres, while naming access to funding as the industry’s biggest constraint against foreign competitors (VOI). On August 17, 2024, at the Baparekraf Game Prime 2024 event, Adiguno formally handed the AGI chairmanship to Shafiq Husein as his term ended; ggwp.id’s report on the handover identified him at that point as a former Chief Strategy Officer at Agate (ggwp.id).
Indiesche Partners
In March 2025, Adiguno co-founded Indiesche Partners together with Guillaume Jamet, a former Vice President and head of publishing at Plug In Digital who had previously established the indie labels Dear Villagers and PID Games. The venture aims to mentor Indonesian and Southeast Asian indie studios and connect them with funding and global publishing partners, focusing on premium PC and console games with production budgets under $300,000 and drawing on local culture, mythology and history; its first officially supported project is “Acts of Blood,” a beat-‘em-up from the new studio Eksil (ggwp.id). A separate report on the launch corroborated the venture’s structure and Jamet’s publishing background (thelazy.media).
What this profile does not claim
Sources disagree on the exact sequence of Adiguno’s job titles at Agate after 2019 — reported at various points as Vice President of Consumer Games, Chief Strategy Officer, and (on a self-submitted event speaker-bio page) Chief Business Officer, Agate International — and no single source read traces how or when one title changed to the next, so this profile reports each title as given by its respective source rather than asserting one fully dated career ladder. One industry blog, Ardisaz, separately describes his earlier AGI role as “vice president” for five years plus board membership from 2016 to 2019, which conflicts with the multiply-corroborated account (detikInet, ANTARA, IndoGamers, VOI and ggwp.id) that he chaired AGI as Ketua Umum for a “periode 2019-2024”; this profile follows the latter, more widely corroborated account and states the discrepancy rather than silently resolving it. No source read gives his date or place of birth, his educational background, or further detail on Ekuator Games’ founding beyond what is documented in this site’s companion profile of that studio.
Timeline
- 2019-01-05
- Agate acquires the studio he co-founded, Ekuator Games, for approximately Rp5 billion; he becomes Agate's Vice President of Consumer Games.
- 2019 to 2024
- Serves as Ketua Umum (Chairman) of Asosiasi Game Indonesia (AGI), the Indonesian Game Association, for a term later described by detikInet as running "periode 2019-2024."
- 2021-06-15
- As AGI chairman, tells detikInet the association's main achievements have been co-developing Indonesia's game-rating system (IGRS) with the Ministry of Communication and Informatics, running the Archipelageek program with the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy, holding annual Game Prime events, and building national competency standards (SKKNI) for the industry.
- 2024-01-16
- Tells ANTARA News he strongly supports a planned presidential regulation on the domestic game industry, saying "Kami sangat-sangat mendukung adanya Perpres ini" (We strongly support this regulation), and that it would help align conflicting government programs.
- 2024-01-30
- As AGI chairman, tells IndoGamers that a proposal requiring game publishers to hold a formal Indonesian legal entity had not actually been submitted to the Ministry of Law and Human Rights and remained only in early discussion.
- 2024-08-08
- At the launch of Indonesia's "Hari Game Nasional" (National Game Day), tied to Presidential Regulation No. 19 of 2024 on accelerating the national game industry, tells VOI that several Indonesian games are succeeding internationally, especially in the United States and Europe, mainly in the horror, relaxation and visual-novel genres, and names funding access as the industry's main constraint.
- 2024-08-17
- Formally hands over the AGI chairmanship to Shafiq Husein at Baparekraf Game Prime 2024 in Jakarta after his term ends; ggwp.id identifies him at this point as a former Chief Strategy Officer at Agate.
- 2025-03
- Co-founds Indiesche Partners with Guillaume Jamet, a former Vice President and head of publishing at Plug In Digital, to mentor and help fund Indonesian and Southeast Asian indie studios making games with production budgets under $300,000; the venture's first supported title is "Acts of Blood" by studio Eksil.
What we could not verify
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- Sources disagree on his exact title track at Agate after 2019. Bisnis Indonesia (January 2019) and kumparan.com describe him becoming "Vice President of Consumer Games." ggwp.id's August 2024 report on the AGI leadership transition and thelazy.media's March 2025 report on Indiesche Partners both instead describe him, by that point, as a former "Chief Strategy Officer" at Agate, while a Marketeers Max speaker-bio page separately lists him as "Chief Business Officer, Agate International." No single source read traces the sequence or dates of these title changes, so this profile reports each title as given by its respective source rather than asserting one continuous, fully dated career ladder.
- Ardisaz's August 2024 preview of the AGI leadership election describes him as having served as AGI's "vice president... for five years, plus three additional years on the board during 2016-2019" before stepping down — a different characterization of his role from detikInet's 2021 description of him as AGI's Ketua Umum (Chairman) for a "periode 2019-2024," which is corroborated by ANTARA, IndoGamers, VOI and ggwp.id all separately identifying him as AGI's chairman/president through 2024. This profile follows the latter, multiply-corroborated account and flags Ardisaz's differing description rather than silently picking one.
- No source read gives his date or place of birth, his educational background, or the exact founding date or original team of Ekuator Games; those gaps are documented in the companion profile of Ekuator Games.
Sources
11 sources (3 tier 1, 6 tier 2, 2 tier 3), each opened and read against the claim it supports. Every source is independent of the subject; no first-party material is cited. See the source policy.
Bisnis Indonesia and kumparan.com, both fetched independently for the companion profile of Ekuator Games, anchor his co-founding of that studio and his January 2019 move to Agate as Vice President of Consumer Games. detikInet and ANTARA News, both mainstream Indonesian national outlets, and IndoGamers, VOI and ggwp.id, established Indonesian technology/gaming news publications, independently cover his multi-year chairmanship of the Indonesian Game Association (AGI) and his later co-founding of Indiesche Partners. Ardisaz, a personal industry-watcher blog, was read for additional detail on the 2024 AGI leadership election but is used only as supporting, non-load-bearing corroboration because it describes his prior AGI role differently from the other sources (see "What this profile does not claim"). Marketeers Max's self-submitted speaker bio page is used only to corroborate a later job title at Agate, not as a load-bearing source for any contested fact.
- Perusahaan Gim Agate Akuisisi Ekuator Games, Ini Targetnya di Kancah Dunia Supports: The January 5, 2019 acquisition of Ekuator Games by Agate and his resulting move to become Agate's Vice President of Consumer Games.
- 4 Cara Memajukan Industri Game di Indonesia Supports: His identification as AGI's Chairman for a "periode 2019-2024" and his description of the association's IGRS, Archipelageek, Game Prime and SKKNI initiatives.
- Ketua AGI harap Perpres tentang industri gim dalam negeri segera terbit Supports: His January 2024 remarks, as AGI chairman, supporting a planned presidential regulation on the domestic game industry.
- Perusahaan Game Agate Asal Bandung Akuisisi Ekuator Games Rp 5 Miliar Supports: His identification as one of Ekuator Games' co-founders and his quoted comments on the rationale for the Agate acquisition.
- Ketua Asosiasi Game Indonesia Sebut Isu Publisher Wajib Berbadan Hukum Keliru Supports: His clarification, as AGI chairman, that a proposed legal-entity requirement for game publishers had not been formally submitted to the Ministry of Law and Human Rights.
- AGI Chairman: National Game Successfully Reaches International Market Supports: His August 2024 comments, at the launch of Indonesia's National Game Day under Presidential Regulation No. 19 of 2024, on Indonesian games' international success and on funding as the industry's main constraint.
- Shafiq Husein Kini Jadi Ketua Umum AGI, Sertijab Dilakukan di Baparekraf Game Prime 2024 Supports: The August 17, 2024 handover of the AGI chairmanship from him to Shafiq Husein at Baparekraf Game Prime 2024, and his identification there as a former Chief Strategy Officer at Agate.
- Indiesche Partners Diluncurkan untuk Mendukung Studio Game Supports: His co-founding of Indiesche Partners with Guillaume Jamet, its mentorship and funding model for Southeast Asian indie studios, and the launch title "Acts of Blood."
- Indiesche Partners, Proyek Akselerator Gim-gim Indo dan Asia Tenggara dari Duo Talent Lokal dan Prancis Supports: Corroboration of the Indiesche Partners launch, its focus on premium Southeast Asian games under $300,000 in production budget, and further detail on co-founder Guillaume Jamet's prior publishing career.
- Proses Pemilu Presiden Asosiasi Game Indonesia 2024-2029 Supports: Supporting detail on the AGI 2024 leadership election process, flagged here for its differing characterization of his prior AGI role (see openItems) rather than used as a load-bearing source.
- Cipto Adiguno — speaker profile Supports: Supporting corroboration of a later Agate job title ("Chief Business Officer, Agate International") as self-reported on an event speaker-bio page; not used as the sole source for any claim.
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