Lintasarta launches online payment gateway
Lintasarta launches online payment gateway
JAKARTA (JP): Data communications provider PT Aplikanusa
Lintasarta launched on Wednesday a new on-line payment gateway
offering authorized real time payment service amid the lack of
trust on virtual transaction security from many local net users.
Company president Adeng Achmad said the service might be
utilized more by companies involved in business-to-business e-
commerce rather than individual Internet users in the
customer-to-business application due to people's distrust of the
safety of virtual payment system.
He said the company's gateway, www.bayaronline.com, was using
the Secure Socket Layer system to protect the security of data on
customers' credit cards as well as the entire payment records.
"Our on-line payment gateway is safe and secure. We have been
conducting electronic bank payments for sometime now," he said at
the ceremony to mark the launching of the gateway.
Adeng said Lintasarta's core business provides data
communications through VSAT and frame relay, and he is upbeat
about the prospect of its new business, expecting at least 100
merchants will sign up with the service during the six months of
operation.
There are currently fewer than seven web sites, including
Lintasarta's www.bayaronline,com, that offer real time on-line
payment service for e-commerce.
www.bayaronline.com is already partnering with state owned air
carrier Merpati Nusantara for on-line ticket purchases and on-
line merchants pointAhead.com and Supermall-200.com. It also
cooperates with Bank Danamon and Bank Universal as acquiring
banks.
Customers with credit or debit cards under VISA or Mastercard
brands issued by banks other than Danamon and Universal can also
pay for their goods through the gateway.
Company director of commerce Wityasmoro Handajanto said that
Lintasarta, which was a subsidiary of state owned telecoms firm
PT Indosat, has allocated US$3 million to develop the gateway.
He said the company was upbeat about its new business,
expecting to meet the break even point in three years.
The number of Internet users in Indonesia who will make
purchases through e-commerce will reach around 70,000 this year
and swell to 600,000 by 2003, according to the U.S.-based
telecoms and IT research firm, International Data Corporation.
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