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TikTok to Spend $1.5 Billion Taking Over GoTo’s Indonesia Shop

Chinese firm will combine its shopping business with GoTo unitTikTok has used Indonesia as template for global shopping pushByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok agreed to invest $1.5 billion in a joint venture wit

TikTok to Spend $1.5 Billion Taking Over GoTo’s Indonesia Shop

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It has targeted the online-shopping market of Indonesia, a country of 278 million, as a template for a global expansion from the US to Europe.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">TikTok started the shopping feature in Indonesia in 2021 and its instant success encouraged it to expand into online retailing in other markets, including the US. This year, TikTok said it will invest billions of dollars in Indonesia and the broader Southeast Asian region.</p><p>For GoTo, Indonesia’s largest internet company, a deal with TikTok could be risky as it would help a major online-retail rival to keep operating in the country. 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TikTok gets a 75% stake in that combination, which will run the shopping features of TikTok’s social media app in Indonesia.The deal is unusual for ByteDance, which is effectively taking over a prominent local online-commerce player in a major overseas market. The agreement, under which GoTo becomes a passive backer of the Tokopedia operation, allows ByteDance to restart its Indonesian business and comply with regulations introduced to halt its online-retail service just as it was gaining traction against Sea Ltd. and GoTo.GoTo fell 5.6% in Jakarta as investors assessed the impact of TikTok gaining control of its e-commerce business. Top Indonesian digital lender PT Bank Jago, in which GoTo owns a stake, advanced as much as 7.9%. 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