Indonesia regulations may thwart Grab and Go-Jek expansion
Indonesia is preparing to launch regulations fixing the rates Grab and Go-Jek drivers/riders receive, creating potential obstacles for the companies’ expansion. Read more…
Indonesia is preparing to launch regulations fixing the rates Grab and Go-Jek drivers/riders receive, creating potential obstacles for the companies’ expansion. Read more…
Huawei and Indonesian operator Telkomsel signed a joint innovation memorandum of understanding (MoU) to implement digital transformation and business strategies to support rapid development of Telkomsel’s mobile broadband services. The MoU – signed last week Read more…
As telcos race to digitize and monetize, Indonesian wireless network provider Telkomsel just may have struck gold with its strategy of expanding into today’s popular forms of media, and in particular, gaming. But why gaming? Read more…
Nokia and XL Axiata say they have successfully deployed the first ‘wireless PON’ (WPON) service in Indonesia as part of a technology trial during a regional sporting event in the Kota Tua area of Jakarta. Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment company Go-Jek has invested in digital media startup Kumparan as part of its expansion into online content, it said. Go-Jek, whose backers include Google and Tencent, has Read more…
5G action this day: China is not at all pleased with Australia’s Huawei/ZTE 5G ban; India panel proposes 5G spectrum roadmap; Unicom has a 5G plan, and it starts in Beijing; and KT takes 5G Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia wants southeast Asian nations to cooperate in helping startups in the region worth at least $1 billion expand outside their home countries, the communication minister said on Friday. The effort aims Read more…
The so-called Tribrid Project in Indonesia by KDDI and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) – which aims to cut base station carbon footprints by 80% – has been registered as an official Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian authorities said on Wednesday they had banned Chinese video app Tik Tok for containing “pornography, inappropriate content and blasphemy”. The ban, which went into effect on Tuesday, is temporary and can Read more…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment firm Go-Jek on Thursday said it would enter Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines in the next few months, investing $500 million in its international push. The Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – In a warehouse on the outskirts of Indonesia‘s capital, supervisors at e-commerce company Lazada use bikes or electric scooters to zip around a floor the size of four soccer fields, where up to Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia, like other emerging markets, has historically struggled to keep accurate records due to a lack of expertise and resources, but the public and private sectors are now looking at blockchain technology Read more…
Cloudera has announced that Indosat Ooredoo has adopted Cloudera Enterprise to enable real-time insights across over 200TB of data and to harness more than 10TB of data collected daily into a centralized hub. Cloudera says Read more…
Last month, Indonesian operator XL Axiata announced plans to diversify its business with an ambitious triple-play service covering mobile/fixed-line broadband and pay-TV. XL Axiata aims to spend $500 million over the next five years to Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia has blocked more than 70,000 websites displaying “negative” content such as pornography or extremist ideology in the first month of using a new system to help purge the internet of harmful Read more…
The probe started after the central bank on Dec. 7, 2017 issued a regulation banning the use of cryptocurrencies in payment systems, said Causa Iman Karana, head of Bank Indonesia’s representative office in Bali. “We Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s central bank has issued a fresh warning about trading in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin because of the risk of losses to the public and even a potential threat to the stability of Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s central bank has issued a regulation banning use of cryptocurrencies by financial technology companies involved in payment systems, and said it is examining whether there’s a need to regulate trading on Read more…
FinTech company EMQ has announced an extended partnership with WeChat Pay HK to expand its remittance services to Indonesia. The two companies are already working together to provide remittance services in the Philippines via EMQ’s Read more…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia said on Tuesday it will summon executives of messaging services and search engines, including Google, to demand they remove obscene content, but dropped a threat to block WhatsApp Messenger after GIF Read more…
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