Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in Indonesia, updated continuously by our newsroom.
Singapore-listed fashion and lifestyle group FJ Benjamin has had a celebration to mark it gaining the Casio Indonesia rights to retail the full range of the Japanese watch brand’s watches. The brands include Baby-G, Edifice and G-Shock. While Casio…
Huawei Marine has secured a contract to build a national subsea cable backbone network for the Papua New Guinea government. The company will work with PNG DataCo, an operator established by the Papua New Guinea government, to construct a national backbone…
Research institute Microsave reported that only 0.73 percent of cellphone users in Indonesia have utilized online financial services. “The figure is lower than those of Malaysia with 5.79 percent and Cambodia with 2.73 percent,” Microsave Country Development…
The number of Indian tourists visiting Bali has increased by 61.57 percent — the highest rise among all countries — compared to the same period last year, from 72,969 to 117,897 people. “India ranks fifth among the top 10 countries visiting the island, after…
PT Bank BRI Syariah, a sharia compliant subsidiary of state lender Bank Rakyat Indonesia, plans to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) of its shares in 2018 to boost alternative funding sources. “During the IPO we will float our shares worth Rp1 trillion…
President Joko Widodo has attended the 2016 Trade Expo Indonesia (TEI) at the Jakarta International Expo, Kemayoran, Jakarta. Jokowi delivered a warm welcome and opened the event. Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita, also delivering a speech, said that the…
Visitors to the 31st Indonesia Trade Expo are sounding out the possibility of buying Indonesian products they consider to be of good quality. Visiting the Trade Expo on Wednesday, Syrian Mohammed Khair Hadiaf said he was looking for Indonesia-manufactured…
Indonesia and Romania have agreed to boost economic ties through the signing of a cooperation agreement between the chambers of commerce and industry of the two countries during the visit of Romanian Foreign Minister Lazăr Comănescu to Jakarta. “The fact is,…
President Joko Widodo inaugurated Trade Expo Indonesia (TEI) 2016, which opened today at the Jakarta International Expo Kemayoran. Accompanied by Enggartiasto Lukito, Minister of Trade, and Djarot Saiful Hidayat, Vice Governor of Jakarta, the President also…
Indonesia’s Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) has ordered telecommunication operators Indosat Ooredoo and XL Axiata to provide more details concerning the establishment of their joint venture One Indonesia Synergy. The KPPU suspects that both…
South Korea’s largest retailer, GS Retail, opened its first supermarket in Cibubur, East Jakarta, on Friday (07/10) in partnership with Indonesian property developer Sinar Mas Land, to target the country’s upper-middle class. “We decided to choose Legenda…
The Citilink airline company will soon serve flights from Hang Nadim International Airport here to China and South Korea, according to the airports general manager, Suwarso. “Two international flights from Batam to China and South Korea have been approved and…
Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Acting Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Luhut Binsar Panjaitan has said the development of the Jakarta-Surabaya rapid train will use the existing track. “For the rapid train, we will use the existing…
Indoensias Ministry of Trade has said it has been encouraging small and medium industries (SMIs) to take benefit of online trade (e-commerce) to market their products. “We are pushing the small and medium industries to take their products to various…
Slowing credit growth will also make it highly difficult for Indonesia’s overall macroeconomic growth to accelerate more markedly this year (the nation’s GDP is expected to expand by 5 percent this year, up from a growth pace of 4.7 percent last year). Juda…
Bitung Mayor Maximilian Jonas Lomban said he had a vision to make the city into a modern city serving as an Asian Pacific gate for Indonesia. The city could play the role of Asian Pacific gate for Indonesia, Lomban said at a meeting on the occasion of the…
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