Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in Indonesia, updated continuously by our newsroom.
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (Indosat) has launched SheHacks 2025, a comprehensive initiative designed to narrow the gender gap in digital skills and entrepreneurial opportunities for women across Indonesia. Since opening registration on April 25, 2025, the…
Indonesia’s fixed communication services market is poised for steady growth over the next five years, with projections indicating a rise to USD 3.7 billion by 2029, up from USD 3 billion in 2024, according to recent analysis by GlobalData. This anticipated…
Indonesia’s fixed communication services market is poised for significant growth, projected to reach USD 3.7 billion by 2029, up from USD 3 billion in 2024, according to insights from GlobalData, a leading data and analytics firm. This upward trajectory is…
Telkomsel is making waves in Batam, Indonesia, with its latest expansion of 5G network infrastructure, enhancing high-speed connectivity in bustling residential and commercial districts such as Harbour Bay, Nagoya, Batam Center, Engku Putri, and Hang Nadim…
Flash Coffee Secures $3 Million in Funding to Accelerate Expansion in Indonesia Investment Fuels Ambitious Growth Strategy Flash Coffee has successfully raised $3 million in a recent funding round, spearheaded by TA Ventures and supported by White Star…
The country – the world’s fourth most populous – is its third overseas market, following launches in Thailand and Taiwan. Japan-headquartered mobile and internet services firm Line has launched a digital banking platform in Indonesia in collaboration with…
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. today announced the opening of Sheraton Jakarta Gandaria City Hotel, the second Sheraton to debut in the cosmopolitan city of Jakarta, Indonesia. Owned by PT. Pakuwon Jati Tbk, the opening further propels the brand’s…
PT Bank Negara Indonesia (BNI) has submitted an expansion proposal to the Indonesian and Malaysian regulators to establish a network branch in Malaysia. The target is to have the branch working by the first half of 2017. Chairman of PT BNI Achmad Baiquini…
Cigarette tax in Indonesia will be increased by an average of 10 percent starting January 1 next year in a move to control the production and consumption of cigarettes in the country. Local media quoted Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati as…
Uber Technologies Inc. said Tuesday it is working to establish itself as a technology company in Indonesia, to avoid legal hurdles after police launched an investigation into the company’s operations last month. The move will also help underscore what Uber…
Indonesia’s biggest tech firm GoTo on Tuesday said it had slashed underlying losses in the second quarter to US$78.25 million, down from $280 billion a year earlier, helped by intense cost-cutting measures. GoTo, backed by Japan’s SoftBank Group and…
In a bid to meet the target of 20,000 tourist arrival in 2016, Public Works and Public Housing Ministry announced that it will build sanitation facilities in 10 major tourism destinations in Indonesia. It also said that the construction would involve…
The marine tourism sector is expected to contribute US$4 billion in 2019, or a four-fold increase from the present contribution, according to Tourism Minister Arief Yahya. “We hope that the foreign exchange earnings from marine tourism will increase in 2019…
Indonesia’s flag carrier’s low cost subsidiary, Citilink Indonesia, has acquired a new aircraft that will alow it to operate extra services during the upcoming Eid holiday period. The Airbus A320 aircraft, which arrived from Hamburg, Germany on Thursday, is…
Balis economy registered a growth of 6.24 percent in 2016, a 0.20 percent increase as compared to 6.04 percent recorded in the previous year. The increase was sustained by a high growth of nine percent registered in the health services and social activities…
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