Indonesian application-based ride-hailing company GoJek confirmed that it will expand to four Southeast Asian countries, namely Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. GoJek Indonesia explained that the company’s brand name for the Vietnam market will change to 'GoViet', while Thailand will take the name 'Get'.
“As for the two remaining countries; Singapore and Philippines, have yet to announce the name of the service. We will hold a soft launching for the two countries,”Vice President Gojek Indonesia Michael Say explained last week.
Go jek expansion | tribun kaltim
Go-jek eventually enters market that have long been dominated by Grab, a Singapore-based ride-hailing company. How Grab responds to this move?
Grab co-founder Anthony Tan welcomes Indonesian rival Go-Jek’s expansion to other Southeast Asia countries, saying that competition will boost the performance of both Grab and Go-Jek.
Anthony Tan | techinasia.com
"Grab was born into competition, we embrace competition because we believe iron sharpens iron," Tan said during the DBS Asian Insights Conference in Singapore on Friday, as quoted by Jakarta Post.
When Grab competed only with Uber in Southeast Asia, it was forced to accelerate and focus more on improving its services to customers, Tan added.
"The competition forces you to be more innovative. Customers will not leave you because of competition. They leave you because you do not love them anymore," Tan said.
I began my career in the banking industry in 1997, and stayed approx 6 years in it. This industry boost his knowledge about the economic condition in Indonesia, both macro and micro, and how to
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understand it. My banking career continued in Yogyakarta when I joined in a program funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB),as the coordinator for a program aimed to help improve the quality of learning and teaching process in private universities in Yogyakarta. When the earthquake stroke Yogyakarta, I chose to join an international NGO working in the area of ?disaster response and management, which allows me to help rebuild the city, as well as other disaster-stricken area in Indonesia. I went on to become the coordinator for emergency response in the Asia Pacific region. Then I was assigned for 1 year in Cambodia, as a country coordinator mostly to deliver developmental programs (water and sanitation, education, livelihood). In 2009, he continued his career as a protocol and HR officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Surabaya, and two years later I joined the Political and Economic Section until now, where i have to deal with extensive range of people and government officials, as well as private and government institution troughout eastern Indonesia.
I am the founder and Editor-in-Chief in Good News From Indonesia (GNFI), a growing and influential social media movement, and was selected as one of The Most Influential Netizen 2011 by The Marketeers magazine.
I also wrote a book on "Fundamentals of Disaster Management in 2007"?, "Good News From Indonesia : Beragam Prestasi Anak Bangsa di dunia"? which was luanched in August 2013, and "Indonesia Bersyukur"? which is launched in Sept 2013. In 2014, 3 books were released in which i was one of the writer; "Indonesia Pelangi Dunia"?, "Indonesia The Untold Stories"? and "Growing! Meretas Jalan Kejayaan"
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