Perkembangan bisnis e-commerce di Indonesia saat ini begitu pesat dan semakin diminati baik oleh para pengusaha lokal atau asing. Hal ini menimbulkan masalah baru, karena Indonesia dirasa masih belum punya aturan yang jelas untuk mengatur peredaran e-commerce asing, sehingga banyak pelaku e-commerce asing yang masih belum tersentuh pajak.
Continue reading Aturan Pajak Untuk E-Commerce Asing Di Indonesia Masih Belum Jelas
There’s a tendency for local software engineers or software companies to create Indonesian versions of existing online services or social networks. While there are merits of launching similar services with local touches, in most cases, these would end up being outright clones with barely any unique selling point aside from being locally developed. I’m sick of hearing people whining about foreign products “stealing” revenue. It’s your own damn fault that people use foreign products because you didn’t come up with great ones yourself.
Continue reading Quit Whining About Foreign Products, Make Your Own Products Great
Ronald Ishak, founder of Domikado, just tweeted that Google has acquired IDC, Indonesia’s largest and most spread out data center company. He says that he is fairly confident about it. If it’s true, it will have wide ranging ramifications across the entire industry in Indonesia, not to mention Google saving itself the trouble of having to set up its own data center to comply with the information and electronic transaction law which was passed in 2008.
Continue reading Has Google Acquired Indonesia’s IDC? [Update: No]