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Indonesian tech firm GoTo will in 1.5 months be 100% compliant with the country's trade ministry regulation that bans in-app transactions on social media, its CEO said on Wednesday.Short video app TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, acquired in December majority shares in GoTo's e-commerce unit Tokopedia after the government banned transactions on its TikTok Shop e-commerce unit. It did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

Indonesia: the world’s largest island nation, 17,000 pieces of land projecting from the waves where Indian and Pacific oceans meet, ranging in scale from the giants of Sumatra, Java and Borneo, to the tiny volcanic outcrops of the Banda Sea. With 280 million people, this is the fourth most populous nation on Earth, after India, China and the US, and the largest Muslim-majority country. It’s also one of the most overlooked, by western eyes at least. What proportion of anglophones could even place Jakarta on a map? Relating…

Indonesia's biggest tech firm GoTo Gojek Tokopedia said on Friday it was in talks with short video app TikTok over a potential e-commerce partnership in the Southeast Asian country. No final deal has been reached, GoTo added in a statement. The company also said the discussions did not include a takeover plan or any sale of more than 50% of its shares to any party.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIndian School of…

Indonesia’s construction industry is growing quickly, driven by residential and industrial building, alongside infrastructure development plans by the government. Sourcing skilled labor is still a time-intensive process, however, and often relies on personal networks and lengthy recruitment efforts. The founders of Gravel want to change that by making it easier to find workers and other construction professionals. The Jakarta-based startup announced today it has raised $14 million. Investors include New Enterprise…

The world depends on the ocean to meet increasing demands for food, income, energy and minerals and transportation. However, marine ecosystems face serious challenges from over-exploitation, extraction, pollution, loss of biodiversity and climate change. Now more than ever, there is an urgent need to strike a balance between production and protection for all ocean users' current and future needs. But as shown by…

Elon Musk's SpaceX has successfully deployed Indonesia's new communications satellite into orbit, the company said on Monday.The SATRIA-1 telecommunications satellite lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket at 6:21 p.m. EDT (3:51 a.m. IST) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sunday.SATRIA-1 (short for "Satellite of the Republic of Indonesia") will be operated for the Indonesian government by the Indonesian company PSN."Deployment of PSN SATRIA confirmed," SpaceX wrote on Twitter.The PSN SATRIA mission marked the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For many years, the Indonesian government's food aid program sent bags of rice to villages, where local leaders were supposed to distribute them to poor residents every month. But starting about five years ago, Indonesia changed that. Instead of rice bags, the poor were sent debit cards to buy the equivalent amount of food at local neighborhood shops.…

Map of Indonesia. Credit: Google Earth The recent UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report found global sea levels have been rising at an accelerated rate. As an archipelagic state with more than 17,000 islands stretching over 80,000 kilometers of coastline, Indonesia should be alarmed by these findings. Last…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Shinta Ratri, an Indonesian transgender woman, taught transgender people at the Al-Fatah Islamic boarding school she founded in 2008 that God didn't care if you were gay or transgender. Located in Yogyakarta, in southern Java, the school provided a safe space in a country where faith and transgender…

Indonesia's biggest tech firm, PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia Tbk, has cut 1,300 workers or about 12% of its permanent employees, the company said. The layoff aims to make the company more "agile" and maintain growth amid challenging global economic conditions, GoTo added in its statement. Read Also By the end of its fiscal second quarter, GoTo said it had reduced structural costs by 800 billion rupiah ($51 million), through efficiency measures in technology, marketing and outsourcing. GoTo, which posted a net loss in Jan-June…