Indonesian ride-hailer Gojek takes on Netflix with video-streaming platform


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  • Thursday, 26 Sep 2019

Having evolved from a ride-hailing service founded in 2010 to providing a one-stop app through which users can make online payments and order food and services such as massages, Gojek is now nursing ambitions for a larger share of the South-East Asian market, where Singapore-based rival Grab currently dominates ride-sharing. — Reuters

JAKARTA: Indonesian ride-hailing and payments firm Gojek launched a video streaming service featuring original movies and TV shows on Sept 26, as the firm makes a big push into online content in South-East Asia's largest economy, its entertainment chief said.

"We see that there's a gap where people want to watch Indonesian high-quality content, but where the only choice to see it is to go to the cinema," Gojek Entertainment Group chief executive Edy Sulistyo told Reuters in an interview.

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