Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in Indonesia, updated continuously by our newsroom.
Thai home furnishings retailer Index Living Mall Co Ltd has opened a new store under a partnership with Indonesian-based CT Corp in Jakarta. s in PT Retail’s Transmart Carrefour complex in the city’s CempakaPutih district. It covers 2,500 square metres of…
Infinet Wireless, the global leader in fixed wireless broadband connectivity, provided its solutions to Telekomunikasi Selular, known by the trade name Telkomsel, one of the biggest cellular telecommunication operators in Indonesia and the sixth largest…
Indonesian fintech platform Kredivo has announced a Vietnam launch through a joint venture, seeking to offer “buy now, pay later” services. It has partnered with Phoenix Holdings, a company with a diversified portfolio in consumer, financial services, retail…
Banks are playing catch-up to technology players in one of the world’s largest unbanked markets. Bank Central Asia (BCA) is boosting its digital capabilities amid increased competition from tech players in the banking space, according to a report on…
Banks are playing catch-up to technology players in one of the world’s largest unbanked markets. Bank Central Asia (BCA) is boosting its digital capabilities amid increased competition from tech players in the banking space, according to a «Bloomberg» report…
Subway, the world’s largest restaurant brand, has signed an agreement with PT Sari Sandwich Indonesia, a subsidiary of Indonesia’s food & beverage retailer, PT Map Boga Adiperkasa Tbk (MBA), whose parent company is PT Mitra Adiperkasa Tbk (MAP). This…
The firm has signed an agreement to acquire an Indonesia-based asset manager, where it aims to create an on-the-ground, market-leading setup to grow its footprint. Allianz Global Investors (Allianz GI) has announced plans to acquire Indonesia’s RHB Asset…
Indonesia’s Bukalapak launched an up to $1.13 billion IPO ahead of next month’s listing, marking the country’s biggest issue in over a decade amid rising investor appetite for tech stocks in a region boasting a growing consumer class, according to a term…
On Saturday, July 3rd, AirAsia Indonesia announced that it would be suspending its operations for at least a month due to the worsening COVID-19 situation in the country. The airline has called its suspension a form of support for the Indonesian government’s…
Indosat Ooredoo, Indonesia’s leading digital telco, announced the first commercial deployment of Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) in Southeast Asia to support the development of its 5G services across the country. Partnered with Cisco, Indosat Ooredoo is…
Axiata Group Berhad (“Axiata” or “the Group”) has embarked on an ambitious network transformation program, leveraging Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN) as a key technology for mobile networks designed to narrow the digital divide and enhance rural…
Vietnam imported 9,400 vehicles from China in the first five months of the year, 6.5 times higher than in the same period last year, according to the customs department. Of them, nearly 5,600 were special purpose vehicles and 2,840 were trucks, with passenger…
Indonesian e-commerce firm Bukalapak is keen to raise as much as US$800 million in an initial public offering (IPO) in August, two people with knowledge of the matter said, the first of two big tech listings in Jakarta this year that will add long-sought…
The strategic partnership allows the bank to operate in the cloud in Indonesia, where banking data must remain in-country, according to an announcement this week. The digital bank will use Mambu’s SaaS banking platform and Google Cloud to offer new services…
Indonesia headquartered on-demand multi-service platform and digital payment technology group Gojek and e-commerce platform Tokopedia have completed Indonesia’s largest-ever deal to create GoTo, Southeast Asia’s largest privately held technology firm. Amid…
Retail sales in Indonesia fell at a slower pace of 14.6per cent on annual basis in March, compared with an 18.1per cent fall in February, a central bank survey showed on Tuesday. Stronger fuel sales were supportive, although sales of clothes and recreational…
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