RECRUIT : Hotel Booking Website, 'PegiPegi' Launched in Indonesia

Agreement Reached on Capital Investment for Hotel Chain, PT. Go Online Destinations

RECRUIT : Hotel Booking Website, 'PegiPegi' Launched in Indonesia (Graphic: Business Wire)

TOKYO--()--RECRUIT CO., LTD. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Masumi Minegishi) has licensed system technologies to PT. Go Online Destinations (Headquarters: Jakarta, Republic of Indonesia; CEO: Davy Makimian), an operator of hotel booking websites in Indonesia, launching the grand opening of 'PegiPegi' (http://www.pegipegi.com), a domestic hotel booking website within Indonesia.

Further, through its subsidiary, Recruit Global Incubation Partners Co., Ltd., RECRUIT entered an agreement to contribute capital to PT. Go Online Destinations, along with PT. Alternative Media Group (Headquarters: Jakarta, Republic of Indonesia; CEO: Davy Makimian; hereafter "AMG") and PT. ALTAVINDO (Headquarters: Jakarta, Republic of Indonesia; CEO: Kevin Yaphon Sanjoto).

1. Overview of 'PegiPegi'
'PegiPegi' is a website operated by PT. Go Online Destinations where users can make online hotel reservations within Indonesia.
RECRUIT licensed system technologies to PT. Go Online Destinations and plans to contribute capital to the company through its subsidiary, Recruit Global Incubation Partners Co., Ltd. Along with future joint shareholders AMG, which operates a digital signage business in Indonesia and PT. ALTAVINDO, which provides payment settlement services, RECRUIT aims to establish the largest hotel booking website in Indonesia, leveraging its strengths in attracting customers, systems and sales.

2. Background behind the launch of 'PegiPegi,' and the investment in PT. Go Online Destinations
Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world (240 million people), boasts the highest GDP of the ASEAN countries, and continues to show stable economic growth every year of the magnitude of around 6% even today.
Moreover, with the expected rise in the number of Internet users in the future and expansion of the domestic travel market, RECRUIT has a high degree of know-how in the online travel reservation business, and is committed to launching this venture after seeing its high potential for growth.

 

3. Profile of PT. Go Online Destinations

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  Company name   PT. Go Online Destinations

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  Representative Davy Makimian

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  Main business Tourism services

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  Founded September 15, 2011

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  Capital (*) 36 billion IDR

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  Stockholder(*)  

Recruit Global Incubation Partners, Co., Ltd., PT Alternative Media Group, PT. ALTAVINDO

*Capital and Stockholder for when capital contributions from Recruit Global Incubation Partners Co., Ltd., PT. Alternative Media Group and PT. ALTAVINDO are complete are listed.

 

4. Profile of AMG

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  Company name   PT. Alternative Media Group

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  Representative Davy Makimian

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  Headquarters address The Capitol Building 1st floor, Jl. Letjend S. Parman Kav 73, Slipi, Jakarta Bart 11410 - Indonesia

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  Founded April 16, 2008

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  No. of employees 177

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  Main business   General trading and services
 

5. Profile of PT. ALTAVINDO

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  Company name   PT. ALTAVINDO

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  Representatives Kevin Yaphon Sanjoto

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  Headquarters address The East 9th Floor Unit 1, Lingkar Mega Kuningan Kav E3-2 No 1,Jakarta 12950 – Indonesia

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  Founded September 28, 2010

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  No. of employees 33

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  Main business   Web production, system development, management consulting etc.
 

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Contacts

[Inquiries]
RECRUIT CO., LTD.
Ryo Miyake, +81-3-6835-9635
Public Relations Department
press@r.recruit.co.jp

Release Summary

RECRUIT CO., LTD. has licensed system technologies to PT. Go Online Destinations, an operator of hotel booking websites in Indonesia to launch 'PegiPegi' (http://www.pegipegi.com)

Contacts

[Inquiries]
RECRUIT CO., LTD.
Ryo Miyake, +81-3-6835-9635
Public Relations Department
press@r.recruit.co.jp