Heaptalk, Jakarta — Dagangan, Indonesia’s social commerce startup, has provided online-based services to fill primary necessities for a rural society in Indonesia. The establishment of this online shopping service is expected to facilitate people in completing their most important needs effortlessly.
This startup’s service allows society, particularly in rural regions, to purchase its goods through smartphones and acquire it immediately within 24 hours without any shipping charges. This technology-based company cut down on time and money, which is good for rural areas that still have problems getting to shopping centers in the city.
As reported by Unicef, rural communities experienced cost overruns to fill their principal commodities due to limited mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. In effect, people have exhausted more time and money to procure their daily needs.
Dagangan’s CEO and Co-Founder, Ryan Manafe, revealed in his statement, “We expect to accelerate economic equality by contributing to the fulfillment of primary needs more quickly and comfortably. Rural communities have similar opportunities to urban communities in supplying their daily needs thoroughly and affordably without incurring additional costs for shipment.”
Dagangan implements a hub-and-spoke operational model by implementing a synergistic approach with prominent people and local MSMEs, which plays an essential role in interacting with rural people. This approach is relevant and efficient in penetrating rural areas that are hard to reach.
This hub-and-spoke operational model assists the leading producers from national to international scales to attain rural areas. We have more than 40 hubs spread over several rural areas to expedite consumers’ prominent needs delivery with efficient logistics expense, “said Maha Willy Chandra, COO and Co-Founder of Dagangan.
Dagangan has also empowered society to be entrepreneurs. This startup facilitates preeminent local product producers’ access to the market extensively. As a result of this contribution, hundreds of local products have been distributed to the national market over traditional and digital distribution channels.
This technology company has served 100,000 transactions and gained access to more than 8,000 rural regions in West Java, Central Java, and the Special Region of Yogyakarta. As a further plan, Dagangan will continue to expand its operational coverage throughout Indonesia’s regions.
(SYF)
