Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – It is not just the restaurants. Grab's motorcycle taxis, or GrabBike, drivers also benefit from food delivery service GrabFood.

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Retail sales in Indonesia dropped significantly in October and are expected to drop further in November in another sign that the nation's economic recovery

Melanie Chalil, Kuala Lumpur – Modest fashion may be in demand but it appears that the trend has extended to our four-legged feline friends too.

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) using online platforms for their business has risen to around 10.2 million as the COVID-19 pandemic

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Domestic car wholesales are continuing their upward trend after crashing to the lowest point in May as the government has sped up stimulus disbursement to boos

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Demand for retail space in Jakarta contracted in the third quarter this year, the first time since the first quarter of 2019, as small retailers impacted by th

Jakarta – Employers have said that companies have been struggling to market their products as Indonesia has been hit hard by the COVID-19 health crisis, which has weakened people's purc

Jakarta – Restaurant and shopping malls operators have pleaded the Jakarta city government to allow people to dine in at restaurants and cafes in the malls as the city's latest round of

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's household spending will take a greater hit than previously expected this year as Jakarta goes back into large-scale social restrictions (PSBB)

Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – Consumers are looking for affordability when purchasing cigarettes as the increase in the tobacco excise and the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic

With Jakarta set to return to another phase of strict Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) next week, malls throughout the capital are collectively urging the capital's government to

Jakarta – A number of state-owned companies have moved into the app-based logistics business. This is at odds with the Business Competition Law.

Yunindita Prasidya, Jakarta – Indonesian urban consumers are more optimistic than their global peers despite more consumers being impacted financially as a result of the COVID-19 pandem

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – The recovery of the retail sector from the hard blow of the COVID-19 pandemic will rely on a recovery in people's purchasing power, which has been driven to mult

Antara, Jakarta – Car sales in Indonesia rose by 100.3 percent to 25,283 vehicles in July, from 12,623 units a month earlier, Association of Indonesian Motor Vehicle Producers (Gaikind

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Retail sales in Indonesia fell 17.1 percent year-on-year (yoy) in June, marking a slight improvement when compared with an even greater contraction record

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Hopes are high the annual Indonesian Discount Shopping Days (HBDI) will give a much needed boost to household spending, which has been well down amid the COVI

Antara, Jakarta – With Indonesia implementing the new normal, now being referred to as "adapting to new habits", revival of trade, which had stalled due to the coronavirus pandemic, ha

Eisya A. Eloksari, Jakarta – Indonesian consumers are opting to buy used cars instead of new ones as the COVID-19 pandemic dampens people's spending power.

Adrian Wail Akhlas, Jakarta – Indonesia's retail sales index contracted by 20.6 percent in May, the biggest dive since 2008, dragged by plunging clothes sales, as well as cultural and

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – The delivery services of e-commerce platforms and logistics firms have been affected by the logistics disruptions caused by the various large-scale social res

Yance Wenda, Papua – The COVID-19 outbreak has emerged a new dilemma for everybody.

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Easing mobility restrictions in various regions across Indonesia will not provide an instant boost to the country's retail sector as wary consumers are expected

Riska Rahman, Jakarta – Publicly listed consumer goods companies have managed to book profits in the first quarter – some even higher than last year – as they emerge as winners during

Nur Yasmin, Jakarta – A study has revealed that Indonesian consumers are leaning more and more toward a "conscious lifestyle" and starting to show a preference for socially conscious b

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – With more and more consumers moving from offline to online shopping, courier companies have seen increased business delivering goods amid the COVID-1

Jakarta – Vendors at Kebayoran Lama Market in South Jakarta have tested positive for COVID-19 following swab testing conducted by the Jakarta administration, prompting authorities to c

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – Working daily in a place deemed to pose a high risk of COVID-19 contagion, some traditional wet market vendors have taken precautions related to the viral outbr

Dyaning Pangestika, Jakarta – The largest textile market in Southeast Asia, Tanah Abang Market in Central Jakarta, fully reopened on Monday after being closed for around three months w

Imam Hamdi, Jakarta – Speaker of Jakarta Legislative Council (DPRD) Prasetio Edi Marsudi on Monday warned parents to not take their children along with them to visit malls and shopping

Thousands of police and military personnel are going to ensure precautions against COVID-19 are being observed, police said, as hundreds of malls in the Greater Jakarta Area are reopen

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – Retailers and shopping centers should run an extensive public relation (PR) campaign regarding their property's health and safety standards to lure consumers

Sausan Atika, Jakarta – For millions of Indonesians, pasar (traditional market) has always been the first stop to buy daily supplies, thanks to affordable prices, a chance for haggling

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Jakarta – The Bandung administration in West Java will temporarily close three traditional markets in the city after several sellers were found to have contracted COVID-19.

Grace Sihombing and Eko Listiyorini – Retail stores, restaurants and offices reopened in Indonesia's capital after more than two-months as authorities eased social restriction rules to

Riza Roidila Mufti, Jakarta – People are becoming increasingly cautious about spending as they prepare for the possibility that the pandemic will have a long-term impact on their finan

Ivany Atina Arbi, Jakarta – The Trade Ministry has issued a circular requiring, sellers at traditional markets, retail stores and shopping malls to wear masks, face shields, and gloves

Beritasatu, Jakarta – At least 14 shopping malls in the North Sumatra capital of Medan partially reopened on Friday amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Erwida Maulia, Jakarta – Ramadan is usually a bumper time of year for shopping malls in the Indonesian capital as friends meet for dinner after the daytime fast. Not this year.

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The retail property market recorded no new openings of shopping centers or leasing activities in April and May in Jakarta as shopping malls across th

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has refuted the Jakarta Indonesian Shopping Center Association's (APPBI) claim that shopping malls will reopen in early June, c

Alya Nurbaiti and Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo visited Summarecon Mall in Bekasi, West Java, on Tuesday to take a look at the mall's preparations fo

Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) chairman Tulus Abadi has rejected the plan to reopen malls in Jakarta on June 5, 2020, calling it a premature and hasty m

It appears that Jakartans will soon be able to go back to their favorite pastime activity of hanging out at the mall, just as soon as the Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) protoco

Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Jakarta – Indonesians packed out shops and malls across the country with just days to go before Hari Raya Aidilfitri, braving the crowds and the coronavirus thre

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Jakarta – Entering the last week of Ramadan, shopping centers across the country are packed by shoppers getting ready to welcome the annual celebration of Idul Fitri, with many neglect

With Eid al-Fitr coming this Sunday, the Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) protocol currently in place in regions across the country seem powerless to stop Indonesians from shoppi

Herman, Jakarta – According to the latest data from market research firm International Data Corporation, or IDC, smartphone shipment to Indonesia reached 7.5 million units in the first