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Indonesia’s biggest annual online shopping fair, held from Dec. 11 to 12, will promote marketplaces that offer customers direct access to local farmers and fishermen for groceries shopping.

  The great consumption engine that powers Indonesia’s economy is spluttering a little, prompting calls for further stimulus measures and underlining the need for foreign investor-friendly reforms. Some economists believe the central bank will resume rate cuts when it meets later this month, in the wake of national accounts showing the economy grew by by …

The findings come at a time when the country saw its slowest growth of the past two years in the third quarter, and tapering investment.

Tetra Pak announced the finding of its survey in a report titled

Record international airline passengers Consumer views on the economy hit 2½-year lows International aviation; Consumer sentiment International air traffic: International scheduled passenger traffic through Australian airports increased from 40.619 million in 2017/18 to a record-high 42.121 million in 2018/19. But the 3.7 per cent increase was the slowest annual growth rate since the 1.

Indonesia’s Halal Law recently came into effect. Consumer products and related services traded in the country need to be Halal-certified. Learn more here.

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The Indonesian Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) was relatively stable at 125 in the first quarter of 2019. 

Indonesian ride-hailing giant Gojek has launched an on-demand video streaming service for consumers in Indonesia, giving them access to local content.

Indonesian beauty platform Social Bella, known by its Sociolla e-commerce brand, has announced the closing of its Series D funding round of $40 million co-led by Singapore’s Temasek Holdings and venture capital fund EV Growth.

Major carriers Garuda Indonesia and Lion Air have been cutting capacity in the Indonesian market since late 2018, but smaller operators have ramped up to fill the gap.

Indonesia is becoming one of the countries deemed to use the internet mainly on mobile devices.Consequently, many people rely on online platforms

Gojek and Grab are giving discounts of as much as 50% and more on purchases made online or with e-wallets.

Experiencing the here-and-now and then telling everyone about it, without considering the future is the way of life of the millennials.

Between January 2018 and June this year, Google Trends saw a 20 percent rise in searches for online travel agencies (OTA), including Traveloka, tiket.com and Pegipegi.

Whether they’re looking for online deals while shopping at the neighborhood “pasar” or binging on Cumicumi videos at home, more and more Indonesians are making smartphones part of their everyday routines. The surge in mobile usage across Indonesia presents marketers with innumerable opportunities to reach consumers in crucial moments.

GoPlay arrives offering collaborations with top local filmmakers as the production house and streaming platform for new exclusive content under GoPlay Originals

The number of Indonesian tourists to South Korea jumped nearly 15 percent in the first half of 2019 from a year earlier as the country emerged as a Muslim-friendly travel destination, Seoul's tourism promotion agency said Sunday. Around 112,000 Indonesian tourists visited South Korea in the first six months of 2019, according to the state-run Korea Tourism Organization (KTO). Over the period, 175,000 South Koreans visited the Southeast Asian country.