Lately I’ve been paying attention to the latest hostile move by government towards seed investment from foreign companies in Indonesia. If you try to raise money for your startup with less than $250,000 in capital, from foreign investors, you’re going to have a bad time. Although there’s no specific regulation that binds this, it seems that this shadow regulation has been taken into effect for the past few months.
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Wall Street Journal: Indonesia’s Economic Growth and Media Potential Brings Us Here
In case you haven’t heard, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) just launched a site dedicated to Indonesia with locally produced content presented in Indonesian. DailySocial took the time to have a chat with the Editor in Chief of WSJ Asia, Almar Latour, about its expansion plan in the country. Previously the WSJ launched Indonesia realtime blog as part of its Southeast Asia realtime blog network Continue reading Wall Street Journal: Indonesia’s Economic Growth and Media Potential Brings Us Here
Fancy Now Available in Bahasa Indonesia, Supports International Transaction
Fancy is a famous lifestyle service nowadays. Focusing on mobile apps (iOS and Android), Fancy provides information on interesting items collected and a chance to buy those items on its online store. Actually, we can also access Fancy’s content in its website.
Although its biggest market is still the United States, Fancy seems to have seen the possibility of expanding the market to another country, moreover the product offered is not common product. Services that similar to Fancy are Fab and Gilt Groupe but as far as I know, both sites have not support shipping outside United States.
On the last update on its mobile app, Fancy informed that the option for Bahasa Indonesia is now available along with other 13 languages. This indicates that Indonesia is an important potential market for Fancy. There is no information on how many Fancy user in Indonesia but becoming 1 of 2 Asian countries which local language is supported (the other one is Korea) is interesting.
Other than language issue, Fancy has done some follow up of the possibility of opening new market by supporting international buyerr. The experiment to check the shipping fee to Indonesia gave the number USD17 for each shipment. Unfortunately, there is no information about tracking, what delivery service used and estimation on when the goods will reach the buyer. Payment can be done with credit cards but Fancy hasn’t receive payment with PayPal.
Path Adds Seven New Languages Including Indonesian
Path announced on its blog today that it has added seven new languages to its localization options.The social network that limits connections to no more than 150 friends understands that internationalizing its app may assist with adoption in markets with non-English speakers and therefore has added Dutch, Norwegian, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, and UK English. These additions mean Path is now available in 16 languages, including Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese, French, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Back in April Path sought out assistance from all around the world to make its app more international and from the list of countries it laid out, it still has four more languages that are yet to be ready to roll out at this point. Those languages are Arabic, Russian, Turkish, and Norwegian Bokmål. To use Path in a different language, you will need to set your device to your desired language. The setting is not from within the Path app.
Path has been a relatively popular network, gaining three million users since it was relaunched back in December last year and as The Next Web noted in March, despite having fewer users than other markets, Asia has been Path’s fastest growing region. The addition of Traditional Chinese, Thai, Malay, and Indonesian will only help to spur further adoption in Asia.
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Accor Rolls Out Online Reservation System in Indonesian, in Agreement with The Government
We have learned that Accor group, a leading worldwide hotel groups, has rolled out Indonesian version of its online reservation platform. It’s part of agreement with Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy to boost the platform utilization from the country. The mobile site can be accessed from http://accorhotels.com.
With over 50 properties in the network, including famous brands like Novotel, Mercure, Ibis, and Pullman, Accor is simply the largest international hotel network in Indonesia. Now, not only accessing domestic hotels, Indonesian tourists be able to book Accor hotels using their own fingers.
Accor’s EVP, Sales Distribution and Loyalty, Jean-Luc Chretien, in the press release said, “The launch of Accorhotels.com in Bahasa Indonesia is part of Accor’s strategy to develop its Internet, mobile, and digital presence in Asia Pacific. With more than 100 million users and with Internet penetration reaching 37 per cent in 2015, Indonesia is a promising digital market in the region.”
Google Confirms Their Plan for Indonesian Office
Googl
e finally confirm that they’re opening their office in Indonesia before 2012. Stated by Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt during his meeting with Indonesia’s VP Boediono in Jakarta. Vice President’s spokesman Yopie Hidayat, as quoted by Kompas, explained that Google would like to develop their business by leveraging small medium enterprises from Indonesia with foreign buyers like what Google did in China. For Google, this is a stretegic step to support their advertising business.
After this meeting, Google’s representatives will work together with Ministry of Communications and Informatics in order to build an MOU as a base for Google’s operations in Indonesia. Several high-positioned Googlers from US has been visiting Indonesia for the past few months to meet with local politicians and discussing on operation-related matters.
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