This would be a major setback for JD.com and Tencent for their effort to build a foothold in Indonesia, the fourth most populous country in the world. It is known that Tencent is leading a round of US$1.2 billion into Go-Jek that is yet to close.

Both Alibaba and Tencent announced their Q2 results in the last 24 hours, with Tencent increasing net profit by 70%, while Alibaba growing its net profit by 96%, both beating the expectations of the most optimistic analysts.


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Jianggan Li
Jianggan Li is the Founder & CEO of Momentum Works. Prior to founding Momentum Works, he co-founded Easy Taxi in Asia, and served as Managing Director of Foodpanda. The two years running Rocket Internet companies has given him a lifetime experience on supersonic implementation, and good camaraderie with entrepreneurs across the developing world. He holds a MBA from INSEAD (GMAT 770) and a degree in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University. Unfortunately he never wrote a single line of code professionally - but in his first job he was in media, travelling extensively across Asia & Europe, speaking with Ministers & (occasionally) Prime Ministers. Apart from English and his native Mandarin, he is also fluent in French and conversational in Cantonese & Spanish. He tried to learn Latin (for three years) and Sanskrit (for six months) as well. In his (scarce) free time, he reads, travels, hikes and dives. Pyongyang, Tehran & Chisinau are among the interesting cities he has been to.