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        "id": 1092823,
        "msgid": "local-firms-unsure-about-e-commerce-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-03-23 00:00:00",
        "title": "Local firms unsure about e-commerce",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Local firms unsure about e-commerce JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce providers are still facing difficulties surviving due to the lack of interest from the local business community in conducting business through the Internet, a research made by PT Boston Consulting Indonesia shows.",
        "content": "<p>Local firms unsure about e-commerce<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Indonesian business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce<br>\nproviders are still facing difficulties surviving due to the lack<br>\nof interest from the local business community in conducting<br>\nbusiness through the Internet, a research made by PT Boston<br>\nConsulting Indonesia shows.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Desmarais, vice president of the U.S-based Boston<br>\nConsulting Group's Indonesian subsidiary, said here on Wednesday<br>\nthat most local companies still prefer off-line transactions, as<br>\nthey still consider e-commerce an insecure marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of a secure system and the absence of adequate legal<br>\ninstruments are the main factors why most local companies still<br>\nprefer the conventional system of conducting business<br>\ntransactions, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Desmarais said that considering such conditions, the<br>\nindustry's estimate that the country's B2B transactions would<br>\nreach $5 billion in 2003 will be difficult to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the lack of advertising had prompted B2B e-<br>\ncommerce providers to charge their clients high transaction fees<br>\nin order to allow them to survive. But this has also discouraged<br>\ncompanies from using the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>According to him the average transaction fees charged by local<br>\nB2B e-commerce providers is about 5 percent, far higher than<br>\nbetween 0.5 percent and 2 percent in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia now has 12 B2B e-commerce providers including<br>\nwww.bidnet.com and www.tradealliance.com founded by Sinar Mas<br>\nGroup, www.lipposhop.com founded by the Lippo Group,<br>\nwww.indonesiaexport.com founded by PT e-commerce Nusantara,<br>\nwww.nexiaonline.com founded by IndoExchange, and<br>\nwww.epulpaper.com founded by Andover EPulpaper Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have 12 Indonesian B2B e-commerce providers today, but we<br>\nwill only be left with two or three in the next two years,\" he<br>\nsaid, referring to the prospect of the country's future e-<br>\ncommerce activities. (05)<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/local-firms-unsure-about-e-commerce-1447893297",
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