Indonesia Digest – 20 Jul

Here you can find some interesting startup news from Indonesia, not only in its capital, Jakarta, but also other their tech startup hubs such as Yogyakarta, Medan, Surabaya, and many more. These listed news are taken from our partner, DailySocial, a leading blog on Indonesia’s tech startup scene.

(1) Project Eden, an Indonesian Startup Accelerator, held a pitching session for the 20 participants who signed up to get funding and incubation. From the 20 participants, the Project Eden committee eventually chose the big five for a closed pitch interview session.

(2) In may 2010, Gmarket founder Young Bae Ku expanded to Singapore and Japan. eBay has a 49% stake in the company. After one year and feeling steady in both countries, Gmarket is expanding again in May 2011, and this time they’re aiming for Malaysia and Indonesia.

(3) MacetTer.us is a special application for BlackBerry platform that helps users watch traffic conditions in Jakarta and around the area. This July, developer 4id announced MacetTer.us version 2.

(4) Newcomer Batavia Incubator officially open their operation in Indonesia by publicly announcing their first portfolio company, C2C commerce site BukaLapak.com.

(5) Fresh from the acquisition agreement of Detik.com by Para Group, Detik’s founder and editor-in-chief Budiono Darsono is said to be rounding up a number of bloggers and developers from Jogjakarta to create a brand new startup.

(6) Fajar Endra Nusa, founder of bukuQ explained that concurrent with their public beta release, bukuQ is also collaborating with MySipisisPro® who also recently launched their latest service Copycataloging.com.

(7) Indowebster, known as the most popular provider of file storage in Indonesia, will explore providing both legal and illegal versions of the same content.

(8) In a BuzzcCity report, the summary from 1st quarter mobile commerce trends and tendencies shows that more commercials (53 billion commercial) have aired through BuzzCity in the first six month of 2011, compared to 2010 (52 billion commercials). For Indonesia alone, the impression gained by BuzzCity is the world’s second largest after India, with a total impression of 3.76 billion and the average CPC of $0.04.

(9) Soegianto, founder of e-commerce site Sedapur.com, has won a Nokia Fellowship.

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