Two BlackBerry Developer Days were held last week in Singapore and Jakarta in Indonesia. Both events attracted hundreds of reservations from interested developers.

The Singapore event was held on 17 Aug at the Pan Pacific Hotel in the heart of the city’s vibrant new Marina Bay area. It’s where the annual Formula One street race is held, and is a stone’s throw from the new Marina Bay Sands resort and casino.

Research in Motion’s Johan Kremer, the senior manager for alliances in Southeast Asia, kicked the daylong event off with a talk on monetizing on BlackBerry’s platform. Paddy Tan of Singapore mobile security solutions firm Bak2U gave a talk about developing applications for BlackBerry. Other topics covered at the Developer Day were BlackBerry App World 2.0′s release later this month, BlackBerry 6, and BlackBerry’s web and widget platform.

“The best part of the event for me was information on the new APIs, the new advertising platform and payment system in App World 2.0,” said Andre Siregar, an independent app developer.

Indonesia’s edition of BlackBerry Developer Day had a reservation list of more than 400 participants. The event was held at the Ritz-Carlton Pacific Place. Many of the same topics were covered for this larger audience. Indonesia has more than a million BlackBerry users, making it one of the largest BlackBerry markets in Southeast Asia.

Daniel Tumiwa of Indonesian BlackBerry app developer 7Langit gave a talk about making apps for the BlackBerry platform. 7Langit produces a range of apps for the BlackBerry including DompetDhuafa, which streamlines the Islamic practice of giving donations, GempaLoka, an earthquake alert app and even an app for Indonesian Idol, the local version of the popular American talent show.

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