Soon WhatsApp Digital Wallet Service Will Come to Indonesia
One application chat Currently, WhatsApp is reportedly going to provide digital payment services to Indonesia.
The news was delivered directly by the company instant messenger which is under the auspices of Facebook. They are currently approaching several digital payment companies in the country.
If it is true as the planned news, then Indonesia is the second country that will experience this ‘digital wallet’ service after previously being introduced in India since 2022. However, the government had to postpone it due to regulatory problems.
The implementation of the WhatsApp digital payment service in Indonesia is different from that in India. Due to difficulties in regulations regarding digital wallet licensing.
Looks like payment peer-to-peer Directly, WhatsApp is said to be cooperating with local Indonesian digital wallet service providers.
Several companies providing digital wallets in Indonesia were approached by WhatsApp such as GoJek’s GoPay, Lippo Group’s Ovo and Dana.
The deals between these companies will be finalized in the near future, as reported by a source who did not wish to be named by Routers the.
Apparently not only from private companies, WhatsApp also visited one of the state-owned companies, namely Mandiri, to procure digital payments.
The above news is also reinforced by a statement by the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, who said that the WhatsApp digital payment service will be expanded to several other countries.
This digital money payment feature on WhatsApp is very useful to make it easier for WhatsApp users to transfer money to other users.
The mechanism used by WhatsApp Payment is to use the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) system. Where the interface of this service provides cross-bank transaction facilities in India, and some of them are State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and Axis Bank.
Later users who want to send money simply press the attachment icon which is also the button that is clicked when sending contacts, media and others.