A motorcyclist laden with packages heading to his next delivery in Indonesia. When TikTok needed an e-commerce partner in the South-East Asian country of 17,000 islands, Tokopedia was an obvious candidate for the vast network of warehouses, motorbikes and ‘sprinters’ it uses. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
IKSAN knows the roads around his hometown on the Indonesian island of Sumatra like the back of his hand.
He runs a package sorting centre from his garage, a small but essential piece of a sprawling network delivering goods bought on Tokopedia, the country’s biggest homegrown e-commerce company.
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