Asosiasi Komunitas Roblox Indonesia

Asosiasi Komunitas Roblox Indonesia (Roblox Indonesia Community Association in English), formerly known as "United Roblox of Indonesia" or "URI", is a group that focuses on embracing Roblox communities in Indonesia. The group was formed in April 3, 2013. The group's founder and owner is maulanaasgaf.

Formation Era (2011-2013)
The group had its root from a Facebook group called "Roblox Indonesia" which was created on August 14, 2011. It's originally intended to gather Indonesian players which were at the time, very rare so that they can play together on the platform.

It then changed name to "United Roblox of Indonesia" in early 2013 after a spike in activity and to stand out from other communities serving the same purpose. Soon after, the Roblox group was created by bryanltss, a friend of maulanaasgaf.

Stamper Era (2013-2014)
The group launched Personal Server 1 in summer 2013 as the first event center. The place was developed using stamper tools. During this period, it started to held events such as Indonesia's Independence Celebration, 2nd Anniversary of the group, and other small events. The group also supported other Indonesian groups, ranging from military to aviation and sport groups. The group also implemented a 6-month presidential system to manage the group, imitating the real-life government structure of Indonesia, with Afokmelot2 becoming the 1st president. Creative and Intelligence Teams was formed to support events and its security. In 2014, a conflict emerged between various Indonesian clan groups to gain dominance over others. The group stepped in as a mediator and had a success in ending the conflict by forming a unified military alliance.

Early Progressive Era (2014-2016)
One of the group members, LeeLiQs, proposed a replacement for the aging personal server, which was named URI Hangout. The hangout became a mutifunctional facility, serving as a hub for event games hosted by the group with its advanced UI and script systems. LeeLiQs later on was chosen as the 4th President, and then as an Administrator for his outstanding accomplishment on increasing activity and the amount of events hosted monthly. Throughout this period, the group remained as the center of activity in the community.

In mid 2015, President Dafp launched URI School, a place to provide education for members on Roblox development topics like English, Building, Scripting, and GFX. The group also held its first in-person meetup in June 13, 2015 at Central Park, Jakarta. In January 2016, the group collaborated with YouTuber Gamersejati (LabQi_Gaming). The YouTuber recorded an event and as a result, members tripled from 2,500 to around 10,000 by the end of the year. The group also held URI Model Show, a showcase of creations by Indonesian Developers in mid 2016. URI Entertainment was also formed in late 2016 by TheYoungGod, using the group's YouTube Channel for various contents, like event streaming, mini-series, etc. A second Hangout was also released in December 2016.

Declining Era (2016-2019)
While more and more Indonesians appearing on the platform, estimating a total of more than a million players, the group's management started to fell apart as maulanaasgaf was sent to a boarding school deprived of internet access. With LeeLiQs entering college and became very busy, events became rare while both URI School and URI Entertainment was also abandoned by their initiators. After the 7th presidential period ended in mid 2016, members soon protest the inefficiency of the presidential system, as most presidents came up with nothing during their period, with the Administrator still remain being the driving force for activity. The system was then discontinued and instead replaced by supporting a presidential system present at an Indonesian Ro-nation group in early 2017, which worsen the situation as it plummeted the group's reputation for having a very unstable government, causing multiple projects to fail, like making Jakarta city and a consortium of Indonesian groups to establish a virtual country of Indonesia on the platform. The group almost closed itself in early 2018 but was saved by a community petition.

Despite those unfortunates, Indonesia Bersuara, a campaign to encourage members to speak out was held in March 2017 as part of the platform's first fully recorded Indonesian Flag Ceremony using real voices. A sequel of URI Model Show, Indonesia Model Show 2018 was successfully held in July 2018 with international audiences attending the event. Multiple meetups were also held in Jakarta, Tangerang, Bekasi, Bandung, and Semarang during this period with attendance ranging from 5 to 20 people.

The group started its own Discord server in early 2017. With easier management and moderation, the transition of community from Facebook to Discord began. It wasn't until 2019 when the group declared that the Facebook group no longer serve as the center of community and began to discard it as most of the staff stopped using Facebook while Discord has a better user experience and integration with other groups. However, it also resulted in the decentralization of many of the group's initiatives, having their own servers and consequently, operate independently from the main group.

Revival Era (2019-Present)
After maulanaasgaf's graduation from boarding school in mid 2019, he found the community in ruins and divided. So the group began to restructure and new programs were introduced, mainly to push more players becoming developers on the platform. The lack of some aspects inside the community such as animation videos and playable games gave birth to Institut Roblox Indonesia in early 2019, which replaced URI School's educational aspects and later in 2020 was responsible for observing and ensuring development in the community by hosting three developer communities, each for Game Developers, Graphic Designers, and Film Animators respectively. A replacement for URI Entertainment, FROXI Production House, was also formed in mid 2019, making animation videos for the community. In March 2020, Indonesian groups saw an exponential increase in activity due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, with old and new players emerging on the platform. During this period, the FROXI team managed to create an animation that went viral with over a million views, with the help from fellow YouTuber Levina vina (Vinafrog). This boosted the amount of members even more until it reached 100,000 by May 2020. This caused the return of TheYoungGod, who made gameplay content on the group's YouTube Channel, reaching 100,000 subscribers in January 2021. Around mid 2021, coincides with the group's 10th anniversary, Institut Roblox Indonesia started to hosts events through UGC Community Events with maulanaasgaf and Nadhep being Event Organizers in the DevRel program, boosting events and increasing their quality. Due to this influence, for the first time in a decade, the group are shaped to be in line with the platform's core values and vision, often experimenting with the platform's new features, like spatial voice that were enabled in the group's newest hangout. The group also began its Liaison System, in which groups in the greater community are able to ally and get support including event collaboration, networking, and grants their high ranks a representative position in the group, further decentralizing the group's goal, focusing only on gathering 'activists' around the greater community rather than collecting as many players as possible in the country.

This system was later improved when in early 2022, it was decided that the group's to be renamed once again to "Asosiasi Komunitas Roblox Indonesia" to better serve the current group's vision and to distinguish itself from the already independent YouTube channel. Also with the rise of real life brands entering the platform due to the 'metaverse' rush, the group prepared to welcome them by offering assistance to brands in need of developers and consultants.

Administration
The Founder is mainly responsible for the longevity and relevance of the group. However, since 2013, the group has its own administrative systems, which vary from time to time, the most notable one was the presidential system. Each presidential period lasted bianually. Election was held with polling on Facebook until 2016, when an in-game voting system was introduced. In 2018, as activity began to decline, the group began to recognized the Indonesian Ro-nation President as their President. After the Mid 2020 Election however, due to some internal evaluations and controversies, the group stopped recognizing the Ro-nation president as the community president, and were given a Liaison status instead.

List of URI and Ro-nation based Presidents: ​An administrative power higher than the president was introduced in late 2014. named Administrator and then Director before being changed to Supervisor in mid-2018. It was originally created for presidents having great achievements and wanting to continue developing the group. It became the only administrative power after the abolishment of the presidential system, with the help of a few selected moderators to maintain the group. In 2021 however, Nadhep was appointed an Event Coordinator which is a position higher than Supervisor, as the group shifted more to event organizing. After the second renaming of the group in early 2022, four more roles were formalized to show better professionalism, namely Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer.

Hangout Series
The first iteration of the group's hangout was called URI Hangout (HO 1), introduced in 2014. The place functioned as an HQ, where members can hangout and do ceremonial events which were previously held in Personal Server 1 and Lapangan Ahmad Yani which was made using stamper tools. The second hangout HO 2 was introduced in late 2016, a modernized version of the first hangout. The third hangout HO 3 was introduced in early 2020, but was never completed and soon abandoned. In late 2021, with the arrival of spatial voice feature, the group partnered with IndoPride to develop Indo Voice Hangout, a next generation hangout which serves as the new hub for events and networking in the community. Unlike previous hangouts, it's maintained by several moderators as the place has visitors almost 24/7.

Developer Communities
Talented individuals from the community are able to share knowledge and work together in three different communities built based on their function.


 * FROXI (Film Animators)
 * InDex (Game Developers)
 * Volumetric (GFX Designers)

Media
The group partnered with media companies to deliver and spread information and entertainment throughout the community.


 * Kotak Bicara (Event-based news and education agency)
 * FROXI Production House (Animation for entertainment)
 * Berita Rakyat (Independent ro-nation news agency)
 * Roblox Topic Indonesia (Independent infotainment)
 * Roblox Studio Indonesia (Independent development tutorials)

Relations
The group's relationship with its allies differ from time to time. At first, the group support the promotion and funding of smaller roleplaying groups of different genres in the community. But as the greater community grew larger, with some having more members than the group itself, it focuses more on forming a network of communities for better information exchange and collaboration inside the community, and in return allow the group to promote their events to a wider audience. Currently, becoming an ally of the group is invite-only and allies can opt out whenever they want.

Liaison
Liaisons are high ranks of allies that act as representatives on the group, sometimes their owner or admins. Liaisons are considered to be the driving force of the greater community on the platform and thus are widely respected by the group. Each ally can send 1-3 representatives that will have special perks in the group including networking and invitation to closed virtual & in-person meetings. There are two main types of Liaisons.

Indonesian Communities Liaisons
These Liaisons are from groups or servers that mainly uses the Indonesian language, ranging from roleplaying groups to influencer or studio fan clubs. These groups usually promote events hosted by the group, based on the event's target audience.

Indonesian-owned Communities Liaisons
These Liaisons are group owners or admins capable of speaking the Indonesian language and mostly resides in the country, but their community language is English. They still get a Liaison status due to their commitment on developing the Roblox community as a whole while resides in the same country or speak the same language as others in the group, making them able to attend events hosted by the group, both virtual and in-person ones.

Activist
Activists are members that are considered to be an active advocate of development in the community (e.g. developers) or people having high influences in the community but haven't qualified to be a Liaison yet. However, they have the same networking opportunities as Liaisons. There are two main types of Activists.

Allies Activists
These Activists are usually admins that were not part of the three Liaisons sent by an ally. They were picked by their own Liaisons.

Invited Activists
These Activists are invited directly by maulanaasgaf, usually community advocates but are not admins in any of the group's ally.

Events
Events have always been a backbone for the group's community activity. Since 2013, the group has hosted countless of events for the community both in-game and in-person ones. The group also supported events hosted by allies by promoting them inside the community as well, sometimes even collaborate and provide funding to such events.

2013

 * Personal Server Party (May 8th)
 * 1st Presidential Inauguration (August 6th)
 * 2nd Anniversary Celebration (August 14th)
 * 68th Indonesian Independence Celebration (August 17th)

2014

 * 1000 Members Celebration (June 1st)
 * Presidential Debate 3rd Period (June 24th)
 * 3rd Anniversary Celebration (August 16th)
 * 69th Indonesian Independence Celebration (August 17th)

2015

 * 70th Indonesian Independence Celebration (August 17th)
 * 4th Anniversary Celebration (August 29th)
 * National Heroes Day Celebration (November 14th)

2016

 * Doodle Event (April 23rd)
 * Hell Point Event (April 26th)
 * URI Model Show (June 12th)
 * Seminar on International Politics (June 25th)
 * 7th Presidential Election (July 17th)
 * 5h Anniversary Celebration (August 14th)
 * 71st Indonesian Independence Celebration (August 21st)
 * Sword Universe Event (August 28th)
 * Chess Throwing Event (September 6th)
 * Control Your Speed Event (September 11th)
 * Autumn Star Obstacle Event (November 13th)
 * Hangout Infection Event (November 17th)
 * Indonesia Virtual Seminar (December 26th)

2017

 * Indonesia Bersuara Ceremony (March 25th)
 * Doodle Event 2 (April 4th)
 * 2017 Sword Universe Event (May 18th)
 * 6th Anniversary Celebration (August 26th)

2018

 * ALPHASEISMIC Booth (February 4th)
 * Indonesia Model Show (July 8th)
 * 7th Anniversary Celebration (August 24th)

2019

 * 8th Anniversary Celebration (August 23rd)

Discussion Events

 * LinDev I: Pendahuluan (March 6, 2021)
 * LinDev II: Komisi Jasa (July 31, 2021)
 * 10th URI Anniversary (August 14, 2021)
 * Ko-Talks Reborn: Bagaimana menyeimbangkan Roblox & Sekolah? (September 25, 2021)
 * Ko-Talks: Pengalaman Kerja di Roblox (November 6, 2021)
 * Ko-Talks: Video Star Asal Indonesia (December 25, 2021)
 * Ko-Talks: Developer Car Driving Indonesia (January 3rd, 2022)
 * LinDev III: Keamanan Karya (January 29, 2022)
 * Sosialisasi Asosiasi Komunitas Roblox Indonesia (January 29, 2022)
 * LinDev IV: Perusahaan di Roblox (January 30, 2022)
 * Ko-Devs: Introduction to Ko-Devs (February 12, 2022)

Competition Events

 * Make Your Own Sword to Fight! (April 10, 2021)
 * Make Your Own Obby & Play! (November 6, 2021)
 * Kompetisi GFX Musim Dingin (December 26, 2021)
 * Roblox Indonesia Got Talent (December 26, 2021)
 * Roblox Indonesia Got Talent Season 2 (January 28, 2022)

Other Events

 * IndoFair June 2021 (June 5, 2021)
 * FIS Juli 2021 (July 24, 2021)
 * Upacara Bendera HUT RI ke-76 (August 17, 2021)

In-Person Events

 * 1) Central Park, Jakarta (June 13, 2015)
 * 2) Majapahit, Semarang (October 10, 2016)
 * 3) Gandaria City, Jakarta (January 7, 2017)
 * 4) Pondok Indah Mall, Jakarta (June 9, 2018)
 * 5) Bandung Indah Plaza, Bandung (July 7, 2018)
 * 6) Rawa Buntu, Tangerang Selatan (August 19, 2018)
 * 7) Warunk Upnormal, Bekasi (December 30, 2018)
 * 8) Cibubur, Bogor (December 18, 2021)
 * 9) Puncak, Bogor (January 8-9, 2022)

Founder/CEO
Founder of the group, also acts as Chief Executive Officer, a community leader responsibles for decision making and management as a whole.

CFO
Chief Financial Officer responsibles for income and expenditure of community funds including administration, risk management, and financial strategy.

CTO
Chief Technology Officer responsibles for operation and transition of technology used by the community, also to observe, decide, and develop community products.

CMO
Chief Marketing Officer responsibles for daily community operations from marketing, logistics, and sales.

Supervisor
Administrator with unquestionable contribution and experience in the community.

Dev Community Manager
Staff of the three developer communities, Volumetric, FROXI, and InDex.

Roblox Employee
Staff at Roblox HQ that is a member of the group.

Video Star
Influencers that are part of the Video Stars Program.

UGC Creator
Creators that are part of UGC Catalog Program.

Liaison
Representatives of allies in the group.

Patron
Members who provide financial support to the community.

Youtuber
YouTubers in the group who are part of the YouTube Partnership Program.

Tiktoker
TikTokers in the group with more than 10.000 followers.

Hangout Moderator
Members with admin permissions in Indo Voice Hangout.

Activists
Active advocate or developers in the community.

Magnate
Former high ranks.

Donor
Members who had donated a certain amount of funds to the group

Veteran Member
Discontinued Rank, once for members who had been in the community for more than a year.

Member
Members that have joined the Roblox group.