Indonesia Digest – 7 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) Some of you might know Mojopia as the company behind the well-funded e-commerce marketplace Plasa.com, who has been very silent for the past few months about the progress of their service. Recently, they launched another website Mojogamon which kind of explains what Mojopia have been doing lately.

(2) Ngomik.com, a service that facilitates comic artists in displaying their works to be read by comic lovers, officially released premium comics that can be purchased by comics fans directly from their site.

(3) CEO DealKeren Adrian Suherman announced the current status of DealKeren and their post acquisition plans.

(4) Indonesia’s biggest entertainment portal KapanLagi is currently negotiating for potential acquisition.

(5) This week, the local location-based social network Koprol rolls out their new revamped version of the site but it’s currently not available as the default look. In order to see the new Koprol, you’d have to go to new.koprol.com and use it there.

(6) Social recommendation platform service Rockto.com launched their update and added several additional facilities. The update can be considered major.

(7) In less than 30 days, Bouncity, a new location-based social game, has apparently gained 16 thousand users with more than 325 thousand activities completed, according to founder and CEO Wenas Agusetiawan.

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