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Jakarta, 28 December 2022 – Pos Indonesia Group continues to play a role in accelerating the growth of the national logistics industry. This time, Pos Indonesia Group, through its subsidiary Pos Logistik Indonesia collaborated with Lion Air Group in a collaboration called the Direct Trading Ecosystem. This program will focus on shipping and distributing products from farmers, breeders, fishermen, and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to consumers. The commitment of the three companies realizes through signing the cooperation agreement between Pos Indonesia Group, Pos Logistik Indonesia, and Lion Air Group in Jakarta on Wednesday (28/12).

President Director of Pos Indonesia Group, Faizal Rochmad Djoemadi, said that this collaboration was carried out to accelerate the logistics distribution process of business actors in Indonesia and is one of the efforts to support national economic stability.

"The Direct Trading Ecosystem concept is a merger of the delivery system owned by Pos Logistik Indonesia, which is reliable on land routes, and Lion Air Group, which specializes in air routes so that the distribution of products to consumers will be more effective and efficient. That can help create national economic stability," Faizal said.

The Direct Trading ecosystem is a collaboration that combines several things from the Pos Indonesia Group delivery system with Lion Air Group, including flight routes (port to port), airport operations, and the post-to-post network.

Meanwhile, the same thing also expresses by Lion Air Group, which is enthusiastic about collaboration that makes it easier for Indonesian business people.

"This collaboration with Pos Indonesia Group and Pos Logistik Indonesia utilizes the capabilities of each company in facilitating the flow of goods from the agricultural, marine, livestock, and UMKM sectors. So that it has expected to improve community welfare as product competitiveness in regional and global markets," said President Director of Lion Air Group, Capt Daniel Putut Kuncoro Adi.

The Main Director of Indonesian Logistics Post, Ardian Cholid declare, size of the domestic market will be very beneficial for consumers and producers of Farmers, Ranchers, Fishermen, and MSMEs if connected through the "Direct Trading Ecosystem" in sending their products to consumers' doorsteps convenient and cheap.

Pos Logistik Indonesia has a joint commitment with Lion Air Group and Pos Indonesia Group by prioritizing benefits for the community. Planning, arranging the storage, and delivery of goods, an effort to maintain the quality of products or goods from agriculture, marine, livestock, and MSMEs until they are in the hands of consumers.

"We will continue to make breakthroughs and improvements through superior business models to achieve a high level of performance in the logistics sector to achieve market needs and economic value and become part of the national and international logistics system," explained Ardian.

The program has integrated with Pos Indonesia Group's digital courier service, Pos Aja! Not just sending lifeless products, but can help businesses market live fish that can ship between islands.

"As we know, Indonesia has an infinite variety of ornamental fish. With the Fish Hotel in this program, people do not need to worry about sending their products (fish) to consumers alive because there is reoxygenation during transit. So, we be sure it is safe and naturally makes it easier for economic players to market their products," concluded Director of Courier and Logistics Business, Siti Choiriana.

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About PT Pos Indonesia (Persero)

PT Pos Indonesia (Persero) is an Indonesian State-Owned Enterprise (BUMN) engaged in courier and logistics services, financial services, and property. Founded on August 26, 1746, PT Pos Indonesia (Persero) became one of the oldest SOEs in Indonesia.

In carrying out postal services in Indonesia, the company divides it into six regions or regions. The regional division covers all provinces in Indonesia, namely 42 Main Branch Offices, 168 Branch Offices, and 3,663 Sub-Branch Offices.

Along with the increasingly modern era, the digital transformation already applied by PT Pos Indonesia to its services. As for the digital services offered by the company with the pigeon logo, namely Pos Aja!, which has a delivery service application based on the digital courier, and Pospay, a financial service application combined with the digital transformation of a post office and current account products.

Presently, PT Pos Indonesia has three subsidiaries, namely Pos Logistics, which is engaged in the logistics business. Pos Properti, which takes care of the hospitality sector and property construction business, and Pos Fin, a service occupied in technology-based financial services.

About PT Pos Logistik Indonesia

PT Pos Logistik Indonesia is a 3rd Party Logistics Solution that provides logistics solutions for the B2B segment and supplies retail logistics cargo services for the B2C segment. The company's target markets are automotive, consumer goods, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, fashion, post & courier, government, telecommunications, mining, oil & gas, agribusiness, and heavy equipment.

As PT Pos Indonesia (Persero) subsidiary, this company has expected to operate independently to maximize logistics business opportunities in Indonesia. Not only that, but the presence of Pos Logistik is also a place to take advantage of the Pos Indonesia network, which has 33,000 points of sale and 4,367 networks.

About Lion Air Group

PT Lion Group is the parent company of a private airline company based in Indonesia. Some of the airlines owned by this group include Lion Air, Batik Air, Wings Air, Super Air Jet, Batik Air Malaysia, and Thai Lion Air.

Launched in 1999, PT Lion Group made its maiden flight on June 30, 2000, which opened the Jakarta-Pontianak route. The total fleet thereat was only two Boeing 737-200 aircraft. Seeing the expansive market share, currently, PT Lion Group has more than 300 fleets with domestic and international flight routes.

Until now, the company has successfully expanded flight services in the international realm, especially in the markets of Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Australia, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Nepal, China, and other cities. Not only focusing on the aviation sector, but Lion Group also packs its business in various fields, such as Lion Parcel, Lion Hotel & Plaza, Lion Bizjet, and Batam Aero Technic.