Jakarta –
Competitors Open their voices regarding Gojek and Grab who are rumored to want to ‘marry’. Maxim responded casually, according to him, it was natural for the two to join because of pressure from investors.
“Both of them have the same investors, so it is only natural that from an investor’s point of view they have an interest, if you could say, to secure their investment so that they hope to be united. The color is the same, green, so it is only natural that they become one,” said Maxim Development Manager Imam Mutamad. Azhar to detikcom, Friday (4/12/2020).
Although Imam views that the merger policy can become a monopoly. However, he left the community alone to judge and respond later if the merger did occur.
“We don’t see it as something fair, let alone to the market. But let the market judge, he said, the work of the nation’s children, but whose nation is it? If indeed our business can benefit the community, especially with the nation itself, we don’t need to do that. “After all, in the end when this happens, the power of capital speaks, not fanaticism and nationalism anymore,” he said.
Another competitor, Anterin, asked the government to step in to monitor the news of the merger. CEO Anterin Imron Hamzah assessed that the merger of Gojek and Grab could disturb the data security of the Indonesian public because both share ownership is majority owned by foreigners.
“If the merger occurs, there is a potential for market monopoly and the government must intervene. Moreover, the majority of the share ownership of the two applications is foreign, so it has the potential to interfere with data sovereignty in Indonesia,” Imron said when contacted separately.
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