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 From ride-hailing to fintech: Grab's journey in the fast lane
Business

From ride-hailing to fintech: Grab's journey in the fast lane

Here are some facts about the company's journey from humble beginnings as a taxi-booking app in Malaysia to a Southeast Asian tech giant.

5 years ago
Business competition watchdog fines Gojek Rp 3.3 billion for late acquisition report
Business

Business competition watchdog fines Gojek Rp 3.3 billion for late acquisition report

Indonesia's business competition watchdog has slapped a hefty fine on the homegrown decacorn for being nearly a year late in reporting its 2017 acquisition of Loket.com.

5 years ago
E-wallet LinkAja bags investment from Gojek
Business

E-wallet LinkAja bags investment from Gojek

With the latest investment from Gojek, LinkAja has raised a total investment of more than US$100 million through its series B funding. The investment came after ride-hailing company Grab led a $100 million funding for LinkAja in November last year.

5 years ago
‘Bank Jago effect’: Small banks’ shares surge on consolidation, digital bank boost
Business

‘Bank Jago effect’: Small banks’ shares surge on consolidation, digital bank boost

Small banks have made it to the top gainers list on local bourse amid mergers and acquisitions by big banks and start-ups in their pursuit to establish digital banks.

5 years ago
SMEs turn to social media influencers for business boost
Business

SMEs turn to social media influencers for business boost

More than half of online purchases start with a phenomenon known as “discovery commerce”, where idle browsers happen upon and decide to purchase goods.

5 years ago
Fintech, social media key to SME growth in 2021: Gojek
Business

Fintech, social media key to SME growth in 2021: Gojek

A study shows that contactless payment volumes have skyrocketed since last year. Bank transfers rose 345 percent, pay later credit payments 290 percent and Quick Response Indonesia Standard (QRIS) payments 180 percent.

5 years ago
Digitalization: New opportunity, old challenge for gender equality
Academia

Digitalization: New opportunity, old challenge for gender equality

Yet importantly, the benefits of digitalization are not equally experienced by all women MSBs. 

5 years ago
Trade, infrastructure and investment key to ASEAN’s economic resilience
Academia

Trade, infrastructure and investment key to ASEAN’s economic resilience

Indonesia has traditionally relied on consumption to drive its economic growth.

5 years ago
Solidarity, unity emerging in pandemic
Academia

Solidarity, unity emerging in pandemic

With no sign of the pandemic abating, different countries are figuring out their coping mechanisms. My hope lies in the evidently strong community solidarity. As the writer Yuval Noah Harari said recently in The Financial Times, “A self-motivated and well-informed population is usually far more powerful and effective than a policed, ignorant population.”

6 years ago
Nadiem, modernization and Islamization of education
Academia

Nadiem, modernization and Islamization of education

Despite the doubts about minister Nadiem with his business background, he has the potential to undertake educational reform. As some critics have said, naturally it is impossible to manage Indonesian education with merely the start-up approach he is famous for, in which gaining and losing is part of growing a business. As a minister, he must win.

6 years ago
Nadiem: Driving education reform through technology
Academia

Nadiem: Driving education reform through technology

Surely further use of technology would be one of Nadiem’s core strategies in the next five years. However how far have education technology platforms contributed to our education system?

6 years ago
With Nadiem on board, off toward Gojek nation we go?
Academia

With Nadiem on board, off toward Gojek nation we go?

The burning questions have gravitated from skeptical — What does he know about education? Wouldn’t it be a waste of talent to put him there? — to sarcastic: Are all young graduates going to become public transportation drivers?

6 years ago
Ride-hailing apps offer health initiatives to help customers during pandemic
Indonesia

Ride-hailing apps offer health initiatives to help customers during pandemic

Ride-hailing app Gojek has added more lockers for personal helmets in several spots, including train stations, in Greater Jakarta to help its customers maintain health and hygiene protocols during the pandemic.

5 years ago
Digital platforms ramp up security to tackle ‘social engineering’, fraud
Indonesia

Digital platforms ramp up security to tackle ‘social engineering’, fraud

As people become more dependent on digital platforms, the frequency of online fraud and social engineering is expected to increase in the next few months, says researcher. 

5 years ago
We're ready: App-based ‘ojek’ drivers welcome ‘new normal’ with health measures
Indonesia

We're ready: App-based ‘ojek’ drivers welcome ‘new normal’ with health measures

An app-based ojek association says drivers are ready to start working again, adding that they plan to use a portable partition to avoid physical contact between drivers and passengers during trips.

6 years ago
Once a joke, now a reality: School accepts GoPay for enrollment fee payment
Indonesia

Once a joke, now a reality: School accepts GoPay for enrollment fee payment

An Islamic school in Ngaliyan, Semarang in Central Java has started allowing payment of enrollment fees using GoJek's digital payment platform, GoPay.

6 years ago
Public surprised by Nadiem's appointment as education and culture minister
Indonesia

Public surprised by Nadiem's appointment as education and culture minister

Despite his achievements, many still doubt Nadiem's capability to handle the mounting problems in Indonesia's education system. 

6 years ago
#UninstallGojek trends after executive shows support for LGBT community
Indonesia

#UninstallGojek trends after executive shows support for LGBT community

Many netizens have defended Gojek, pointing out that many companies widely used in Indonesia have also openly declared their support of the LGBT community, including Twitter itself.

7 years ago
‘Going digital’ means win-win for SMEs, e-commerce platforms
Headlines

‘Going digital’ means win-win for SMEs, e-commerce platforms

Speakers at the JakPost Up Close webinar have found that digital transformation spells a win-win solution for e-commerce platforms and Indonesian SMEs alike amid the COVID-19 health crisis.

5 years ago
Indonesia gears up for digital banks amid legal vacuum
Headlines

Indonesia gears up for digital banks amid legal vacuum

The eager players to tap into this new form of banking span from traditional banks, including the country’s biggest private lender Bank Central Asia (BCA), to homegrown decacorn Gojek, which plans to collaborate with an upcoming digital bank.

5 years ago
Gojek, Tokopedia merger talks may lead to blooming start-up collaboration
Headlines

Gojek, Tokopedia merger talks may lead to blooming start-up collaboration

Indonesia may see more partnerships and mergers between start-ups operating in the country following merger talks between ride hailing firm Gojek and e-commerce platform Tokopedia as they seek efficiencies of scale.

5 years ago
Gojek, Grab merger could spell start of antitrust investigation
Headlines

Gojek, Grab merger could spell start of antitrust investigation

Reports about a merger between homegrown Gojek and Singapore-based Grab have been circulating since SoftBank Group’s Masayoshi Son, a major backer for Grab, visited Indonesia in January.

5 years ago
Digital platforms beef up user protection measures
Headlines

Digital platforms beef up user protection measures

Digital platforms are fortifying security measures to prevent so-called social engineering threats and other forms of online fraud, as more and more people shop and do business over the internet during the pandemic.

5 years ago
Tech giants race to digitize ‘warung’
Headlines

Tech giants race to digitize ‘warung’

Homegrown tech giants are tapping into the underserved sector of warung (kiosks), as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates the digitalization of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

5 years ago
Archipelago

Snooker-China's governing body upholds lifetime bans for match-fixing

June 22 (Reuters) - China's snooker authorities have upheld lifetime bans for match-fixing handed out to Liang Wenbo and Li Hang by the sport's world governing body (WPBSA) and given five other players longer suspensions for domestic matches.

3 years ago

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