Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in Indonesia, updated continuously by our newsroom.
Ramadan month is the most popular time for online shopping in Indonesia, data from shopping search engine and price comparison platform Priceza Indonesia shows. Click rates increased by 26 per cent compared to the previous month, its figures show, while…
Payment and lending focused Fintech startup companies dominate the overall Indonesia Fintech landscape in terms of maturity level, according to IDC Financial Insights. This was followed by marketplace, wealth management, company solution and accounting based…
Indonesian hypermarket chain Matahari Putra Prima was apparently so ashamed of its financial performance last year it issued a press release about its results without a single financial detail included. A little sleuthing online reveals the struggling giant –…
Indonesia’s managed services provider PT Teltranet Aplikasi Solusi (Telkomtelstra) plans to open several more data centers in a bid to expand its cloud services across the country. Currently, the company has one data center for its cloud business in Serpong,…
Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment company Go-Jek is set to announce its first expansion to another country in Southeast Asia in the “next few weeks,”. Go-Jek also plans to expand to three other Southeast Asian countries by the middle of this year,…
Grab Indonesia, a ride-hailing application provider, plans to take measures to increase the income of its drivers in response to their protest earlier this week. “We will study this. We all agree to make a joint effort to increase the income [of the…
Lawmakers, professional associations and pharmaceutical industry players came together in Jakarta at the Convention on Pharmaceutical Ingredients Southeast Asia (CPhI SEA) 2018 from March 27 to 29. They are expected to get together; interact and exchange…
Uber ride sharing drivers and customers in Jakarta and other 50 Southeast Asian cities have until April 8 to transfer their accounts to Grab, following an announcement on Monday (26/03) that Uber will sell its business in the region to the Singapore-based…
Low-cost airline Citilink Indonesia has announced plans to serve two or three more international routes this year in addition to the Jakarta-Penang route that started operation on Sunday and the Jakarta-Dili route that has been in operation since May, last…
The Trade Ministry has seen the first export of 6 tons of chicken nuggets to Japan on last Wednesday. The nuggets were produced by PT Belfoods Indonesia, the subsidiary of publicly listed PT Sierad Produce. “I congratulate Belfoods for being the first company…
Indonesia has won an appeal against the European Union in a dispute over the bloc’s anti-dumping duty on biodiesel, the Ministry of Trade said in a statement on Wednesday (21/03). The European Court of Justice, the EU’s highest court, ruled that the bloc must…
The Transportation Ministry in April will start ticketing ride-hailing drivers who violate the rules as stated in Transportation Ministerial Regulation No. 108/2018 on non-route public transportation. The ministry will pay particular attention to drivers who…
Indonesia has impounded more than 200 tons of garlic imported from China, warning that a microscopic worm infestation found in the shipment could put at risk plans by the Southeast Asian country to boost its own garlic crop. Since coming to power in 2014,…
Samsonite Asia sales lept 16 per cent last year, a rate slower than the Hong Kong-listed company’s global growth, and predominantly driven by the acquisition of Tumi. The world’s largest travel luggage company achieved global sales of US$3.49 billion, up 23.3…
A rural New Zealand donut maker is set to expand into Asia, initially targeting the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Epiphany Cafe started just two years ago as a single family-owned store in the Waikato city of Hamilton, in the heart of New…
The administration is revising regulations on tax incentives for investment and seeks to pass them by the end of this month. Speaking to 41 US-based companies grouped under the US-ASEAN Business Council on Tuesday morning, the President underlined the…
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