Lazada: Another E-Commerce Network from Rocket Internet Group

It seems that overseas e-commerce networks are endlessly trying their luck in Indonesia. Among others there’s Rakuten, Gmarket, and most recently Zalora of Rocket Internet. Now, there’s Lazada Indonesia. Lazada is an e-commerce network based in the Middle East, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates to be exact. However, apparently Lazada is still part of Rocket Internet which originated from Germany. Lazada uses shades of blue and orange theme, similar to Amazon.

Different to Zalora which specializes in fashion products, Lazada, as you can see on its website, will focus on consumer electronic goods and household appliances. A number of famous brands have been registered in Lazada Indonesia. Like Zalora, Lazada also provides free delivery for Jakarta area by cooperating with Go-Jek. Obviously since Rocket Internet Indonesia’s CEO is also a co-founder of Go-Jek.

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E-money users grew 18%, e-commerce players are still not happy

Digital cash money is still considered new in Indonesia, however the user’s amount may not be as insignificant. Detikinet reveals that in 2012, the number of e-money users in Indonesia will reach 12 million, in assumption of 30% -40% active users.

In Indonesia, e-money usage is driven by the bank and only 10% contributed by the telco/carrier company such as Telkomsel T-Cash, Flexi Cash and Cash XL. Bank Indonesia also recorded digital money users increased from 7.9 million to 9.4 million or by 18% compared to last year. BI also recorded the number of digital transactions has reached 8.3 million transactions with Rp. 176.56 billion value.

With this growth, the industry should be able to boost e-commerce and m-commerce in Indonesia. However it seems that the e-commerce service isn’t really “take-off” in Indonesia. I also asked some great e-commerce players in Indonesia and they all are agree that online shopping behaviour (e-commerce) in Indonesia isn’t as high as they expected.

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Can BCA KlikPay and Mandiri ClickPay Boost The Spirit of E-Commerce?

Several days ago, BCA launched e-commerce payment solution KlikPay, almost simultaneously with the launch of Bank Mandiri’s ClickPay. Is the similar name only a mere coincidence? It could be. However a few weeks before that, these two banks finally decided to open a transaction path based on customers’ need.

BCA KlikPay and Mandiri ClickPay basically have the same concept, a platform that connects your debit account to an online service payment system. BCA KlikPay already supports several online services such as: Bhinneka.com, Blibli.com, CBN, Gudang Vouchers and Living Social. Self service while ClickPay have a little more: Garuda Indonesia, Plasa.com, Indomog, Rakuten, Blibli.com, Bhinneka.com, and Enjoyspin.com.

Both services claim their product will increase the volume of online transactions (e-commerce) in Indonesia. As the two largest banks in Indonesia, they certainly have the power to do so. With such enormous customer base, the partnership between these two banks is indeed necessary in order to support the growth of e-commerce service and banking which aren’t connected to each other beforehand.

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Sedapur Provides Payments Via KlikBCA

E-commerce service for food, Sedapur.com, now provides payment method via KlikBCA for customers who purchased food in their site.

From the newsletter announcement that I’ve received, Sedapur customers are now having additional payment method beside inter-bank transfers (Mandiri and BCA Bank) by making payments directly from KlikBCA when they performs checkout process in Sedapur.com

How? When you are on the payment page (after booking the product) you can choose to pay via KlikBCA. You will then be prompted for your KlikBCA user ID and log into the site. Later on there will be Sedapur payment option in the e-commerce payment menu on Marketplace category. A list of transactions in Sedapur.com will appear and you can proceed with the authorization of payment using the keyBCA.

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As Google launched Bisnis Go Online, E-commerce Players Band Together to Set Up an Association

On Wednesday, Google, along with a number of Indonesian partners in both the private and government sectors, launched an initiative to bring 100,000 Indonesian small and medium businesses/enterprises online by the end of 2012.

Dubbed Bisnis Lokal Go Online, the move is spurred by the lack of adoption of the Internet by Indonesian companies despite having more than 40 million individuals logging time on the Internet. As the majority of these people spend their time on social networks, it’s up to local businesses to bring their presence online and improve awareness as well as trust to get consumers to interact with them.

While Google is the primary driver of this program, it is also being backed by three government ministries, the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, PANDI, the Indonesian Internet domain agency, Internet providers Melsa and Bakrie Connectivity, Multiply, as well as Aptikom, the higher education association of computer science and informatics.

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OpenKurir.com Opened API Exclusive Access For OngkosKirim.com

Last week via their official blog, OpenKurir.com has announced the opening of API exclusive access registration for OngkosKirim.com. API access is intended exclusively to marketplace or developers who are developing e-commerce services and integrating OngkosKirim.com APIs to their site.

OpenKurir.com is the courier service for serving the local market. Apart of serving goods daily delivery, they also intend to provide an alternative solution delivery services for companies in this e-commerce growth era. However, due to operational and management which is still in their early stage, for now OpenKurir.com isn’t launched yet. Amidst of preparing their services, OpenKurir.com is also developing and launching OngkosKirim.com (a service for comparing freight of various courier companies).

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Papataka.com Sell Not Only E-book Now

I has written several times about the development of Papataka.com, one of the service provider for buying e-book. Papataka also has dedicated e-reader device that enables users to access Papataka directly from the device.

Now, there is a new development from Papataka.com, they do not only sell e-book but also non digital stuffs such as organic food, coffee, toys, clothes, children clothing, and many other stuffs. Actually I already read the news about it last week from their advertisement on the Indonesian edition of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine where they advertise about their new services. On the latest edition of the magazine, Papataka.com advertise many other things that can be bought besides e-books.

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Coming Soon: Consumer Protection Laws for E-Commerce Transactions

The Vice Minister of Trade (who is going to be shifted as Vice Minister of Finance), Mahendra Siregar, stated that the Ministry of Trade and the Ministry of Communication and Informatics will establish a regulation on consumer protection in online trading – or known as e-commerce. In a seminar in Jakarta, Siregar stated generally that the adoption of e-commerce is spreading fast, but the mechanism for fraud protection is not yet in place – the most common case is failure to pay when the items have been delivered.

According to Mahendra as cited by Okezone, the regulation is required to ensure legal protection especially since e-commerce involves international trade. “We can’t allow issues in export trade through e-commerce to affect country risk or brand image which may lead to the perception that Indonesian economy poses a high risk.”

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New Online Payment Service Emerged: EXrupiah.com

Some days ago, DailySocial wrote an article about a internet payment service Inapay.com. There also some local payment services emerge previously such as Doku, Unik, InoMog, Kaspay, and so on.

This time, there is new online payment emerges. This payment service is called EXrupiah.com from CV Exrupiah Putra Mandiri, their soft launching is on last September 18th, 2011.

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MySellr Introduces New Version, Changes Layout, and Renews Prices

In the beginning of September, MySellr introduced their new preface for this new version. As explained on the press release received by DailySocial, its layout and user feature is made simpler and easy to use.

MySellr provides services for Facebook users who want to sell their product by using Fan Page but with facilities similar to e-commerce such as product catalogue, order management, invoice, and daily deals. Some other facilities like discount program, and other programs blended with Facebook such as voucher with special code for Discount on Like.

DailySocial ever discussed about MySellr. MySellr AB was established by Indonesian who lives in Swedia. However, the head office is in Jakarta. Hermawan Tjakradiwira is the founder and CEO of MySellr.

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