JAKARTA: GoTo chief executive Patrick Walujo has dismissed allegations that the government’s recent curbing of TikTok’s operations in Indonesia was a collusive act intended to compel the Chinese short-video platform to strike a deal with the Indonesian tech giant’s eCommerce arm, Tokopedia.
“People say it was a conspiracy between the government and GoTo and that banning [TikTok] created an opportunity for us. That’s utter nonsense,” Walujo told the audience during a panel discussion at a DealStreetAsia event in Jakarta last Thursday.
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