10 Popular and Best e-Commerce Sites in Indonesia

You may have heard about e-Bay and Amazon as two of giant e-Commerce sites in the world, and if you are willing to know about the Indonesian's online marketplaces, surely the both mentioned brands won't be in my list.

Selling and buying items on internet have been spreading all over the world and as one of the top 10 most populated countries in the world, surely that Indonesia in South-East Asia continent is the great market for any businesses.

Popular and trust-worthy e-Commerce sites in Indonesia

If you are willing to buy things in Indonesia, you may need to know these online marketplaces. Or, if your business will also have a plan to be expanded in Indonesia, I think this information will really helpful.

Anyway, all of the e-Commerce sites in Indonesia you are about to read have had their own apps whether for Android or iOS.

1. BukaLapak

BukaLapak.com is truly an authentic marketplace in Indonesia fund by Achmad Zaky back in the early of 2010 ago. An interesting thing about this marketplace is that, you are possible to negotiate the price of the items you are going to buy.

2. TokoPedia

For now, you can say that TokoPedia is the most popular marketplace in Indonesia among the others since it is the biggest one in the country. If you are creating an account in this marketplace as a consumer (buyer), your account is also be possible to create your own shop and sell items since there have been a feature for that.

3. JD Indonesia (JD.ID)

JD.id was first operating in Indonesia in 2015 ago. It is originally one of the biggest rival of Alibaba it is a B2C (Business to Customer) site in China.

4. Matahari Mall

Matahari Mall is an online version of one of the biggest shopping centers in Indonesia which is the Matahari Department Store. The same with BukaLapak on the first point on above, both are originally from Indonesia.

5. BliBli.com

BliBli is possible for big and small businesses to be a vendor or merchant to start online businesses. Trust rate for all the merchants in this site is pretty much higher since the marketplace is toughly strict in filtering them out.

6. Lazada Indonesia

This is one of the branch of LAZADA in South-East Asia. If there will be someone who need to buy things online through e-commerce site in Indonesia with cheaper price whether the items from Indonesia itself or even the other countries in Asia, then let anyone know about this one.

7. Bhinneka

It is considerably the first marketplace or the pioneer in Indonesia since it Bhinneka launched before 21st century between 1996-1999.

8. Blanja.com

Blanja is a marketplace formed by the cooperation between Telkom Indonesia as one of the biggest phone telecommunication provider and one of the giant online e-commerce which is Ebay.

9. Elevenia

In its first launch, Elevenia is owned by two big companies which are XL Axiata and SK Planet (XL Planet) since 2014 to 2017. Then, since 2017 until this post published, it then taken over by Salim Group.

10. Shopee Indonesia

Shopee's headquarter is actually in Singapore. But, this is also one of the well-known marketplace in Indonesia with millions of customers.

What makes Shopee different is it is providing the live chat feature in its marketplace where later the feature itself then adopted by the other markerplaces in Indonesia.

If you think that your business needs to be expanded to Indonesia, feel free to gives the above e-commerces a try or you can also thinking about digital advertising to reach more abroad markets.

That's all for now for the popular and best e-commerce sites in Indonesia that can be your choice to sell or buy things from this tropical country.