Key Indonesia Startup News This Week – 9 Jun

Here you can find some interesting startup news around Indonesia, not only in its capital, Jakarta, but also other their tech startup hubs such as Yogyakarta, Medan, Surabaya, and many more. These listed news are taken from our partner, DailySocial, a leading blog on Indonesia’s tech startup.

(1) IPGA Ltd, the owner of the brand iProperty and a bunch of other real estate website around the region just announced that they are acquiring PT Web Marketing owner and operator of Indonesia’s largest property portal Rumah123.com.

(2) There’s no doubt that this will change how consumer buy things online and offline, this will impact the world and Indonesia as one of the fastest growing economy in SEA is not an exception. Despite the low credit card penetration in the country, Google Wallet could still impact the credit card growth in Indonesia, if it plays nice.

(3) Japan’s largest online commerce company Rakuten has officially launched Rakuten Belanja Online in Indonesia with Media Nusantara Citra (MNC) Group as its local partner. Rakuten Belanja Online or RBO is the company’s latest move to dominate the global online marketplace.

(4) ArtSumo is probably the first daily deal site that’s trying to help artists get their artworks sold online, basically using the Groupon approach.

(5) Two of Indonesia’s biggest bank is Bank Central Asia (BCA) and Bank Mandiri, and both are getting geared towards the future of payments by getting into the e-commerce scene.

This has been brought to you by SGE and DailySocial. DailySocial is a blog that covered the Indonesian tech startups scenes. They publish in both Indonesian and English.

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