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What’s on More than 120 local/ international channels Pricing From Rp99,000/US$6.80 a month. Monthly add-on packages cost from Rp11,000/US$0.75 for the Fashion pack to Rp221,000/ US$15 for the Gold pack
Netflix The Night Comes For Us
See Regional listings Launched in Indonesia in Jan 2016. Added a fully localised Bahasa Indonesia interface in Oct 2018 Pricing Rp109,000/US$7.70 (SD, 1 screen), Rp139,000/US$9.80 a month (HD, 2 concurrent screens), Rp169,000/US$11.90 a month (HD/UHD, 4 concurrent screens). One-month free trial for new members. What’s on Although visible original production activity isn’t anywhere near as high in Indonesia as in, for instance, India or South Korea, Netflix definitely has the country on its content radar, including first original movie, The Night Comes for Us. Acquired Indonesian titles include Headshot, Laskar Pelangi, Merantau, Ada Apa Dengan Cinta 2, Galih dan Ratna and Filosofi Kopi, The Devil Take You and Rizal Mantovani’s horror show Kuntilanak. Bahasa Indonesia subtitles are available on select content. Netflix does not censor content for Indonesia, and continues to maintain that consumers are empowered to make viewing choices based on the features provided, including show info, ratings, age verification and parental controls Distribution Available direct and via XL Axiata, Bolt, Hutchison 3 Indonesia and Smartfren No. of subs Not disclosed
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About Ad-based mobile TV service Launch Dec 2017 What’s new Says it will be launching the Oona TV app on Telkom Indonesia’s set-top box – IndiBox – after June 2019 What’s on More than 200 local/ international channels, including Outdoor, a bouquet of brands from Omni Channels Asia and its partnership with U.S.-based channels provider TV4 Entertainment, all3media’s lifestyle channel Inside Outside, and a bundle of channels – some branded from internatinal media suppliers – reformatted from YouTube Pricing Free No. of registered users 1.3 million. Targeting eight million users by end 2019 Who’s in charge Christophe Hochart, CEO and founder Head of content partnerships Dominique Ullman Tech partners SpotX, FreeWheel, Xaxis, GroupM
About OTT service targeting youth/social media users Launched Oct 2014 by PT Vidio Dot Com, added premium tier in Nov 2018 offering sports, movies and local/foreign content Owned by PT Surya Citra Media (SCMA), which belongs to local media company Emtek. SCMA also owns and operates free-TV channels SCTV, Indosiar and O Channel What’s on UGC, 21 free-to-air channels, sports, news, local sinetron and Korean, Thai, Japanese and Chinese drama series. Premiered its first original series, Girls in the City, in Mar 2019. Produced by local production house SinemArt, the romantic series focuses on social peer pressure. How much Freemium. Premium costs from Rp10,000/US$0.70 a day to Rp50,000/US$3.50 a month for the Vidio Premier + beIN pack Who’s in charge Sutanto Hartono, CEO; Hermawan Sutanto, deputy CEO
UseeTV Go About An OTT/streaming extension of IPTV service UseeTV Launched June 2011 Owned by Telkom Indonesia What’s on Live streaming of select channels/events, video/karaoke on-demand content for subscribers of UseeTV/IndiHome for free
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No Sleep No Fomo
See Regional listings Pricing Rp65,000/US$4.60 a month
Super Soccer TV About Sport OTT/streaming platform, geo-blocked for Indonesia Launched Nov 2016 No. of users Upwards of 275,000 What’s on Live coverage of soccer matches (Garuda Select, Chinese Super League, Bundesliga and UEFA Youth League plus VOD content covering behind the scenes of Garuda Select Pricing Rp50,000/US$3.45 a month Who’s in charge Mirwan Suwarso, business development director
when one fateful night their souls switch. This was followed by The Publicist, a 13-part romantic drama directed by Monty Tiwa and aired in Nov 2017. In May 2018, as part of its second anniversary celebration in Indonesia, Viu premiered its third Indonesia original series, Sunshine. Viu was also involved in film, releasing its first Indonesia original film, Kenapa Harus Bule? (directed by Nia Dinata) in Mar 2018. How much Freemium. Premium tier is Rp30,000/US$2.10 a month Content partners Starvision, Multivision Pictures (Indonesia); KBS, SBS, MBC, CJ E&M, JTBC (Korea); Fuji TV (Japan); GMM (Thailand) Distribution partners Telkomsel, Three (Hutch Indonesia), XL Axiata, Smartfren, Tokopedia, Jd.id and Samsung Indonesia
Singapore See Regional listings Launched in Indonesia May 2016 What’s on Asian content, including local programmes from Starvision and Multivision Pictures along with Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Thai and Indian titles. Select Korean drama and variety from five major producers (KBS, SBS, MBC, CJ E&M, JTBC) are released in Indonesia at the same time as in Korea with subtitles in English as soon as eight hours after original telecast and in Bahasa Indonesia after 24 hours Original productions Viu premiered its first Indonesia original in Aug 2017 – 13-part romcom, Switch, about two best friends whose lives turn upside down
Along with a vibrant trade in streaming boxes that offer illicit access to a world of content (and, no, while we applaud the little gains made to fight piracy, we don’t think enough is being done and think the government should step up in a bigger way), Singapore has a robust range of global/regional standalone streaming services, including India’s ALTBalaji, CuriosityStream, GagaOOLala, HBO Go, Hooq, Netflix, Prime Video, Spuul, Viu, Yupp TV... all of which offer direct-to-consumer interfaces and some of which are available as part of telco or, in the case of Mediacorp’s Toggle, other bundles. The platforms are not cus-
contentasia issue three, june 2019
