Gojek makes first super app move in Singapore with Singtel partnership
Wide-ranging collaboration will offer mobile and lifestyle benefits to drivers and users
Singapore
INDONESIAN ride-hailing firm Gojek has inked a wide-ranging partnership with Singtel to offer mobile and lifestyle benefits to drivers and users, hinting at how the two firms can work together should Gojek double down on its super app strategy in Singapore.
Lien Choong Luen, general manager of Gojek Singapore, told The Business Times that at its core, Gojek provides physical services mediated through a technology platform.
"If you think of the Gojek ecosystem as the super app, it is really around moving people, moving goods, and moving services. And that is where the full complementarity is with the online service offerings that Singtel has," said Mr Lien. "Right now in Singapore, we have ride-hailing. But in the long term, it is being able to offer all these physical services and marry th…
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