Which Areas Use Digital Payment For Education Fees? Not In Jakarta

JAKARTA - In the past year, there has been a spike in the trend of paying digital products such as Pulsa, Data Packages, BPJS, Electricity to water.

"Especially for State Education and Revenue Fees, Tokopedia recorded a spike in transactions more than doubled over the past year," said Tokopedia's Head of Sales and Operation Development (Digital Goods) Yosep Aditya Susanto in a statement, Saturday, September 24, quoted from.

These two digital products are expected to continue to help maintain the continuity of education and make it easier for the public to access public services and increase state revenues.

Furthermore, Tokopedia's digital product, namely Education Fees, has been connected to 6,000 educational agencies.

"For the past year, Wajo Regency (South Sulawesi), West Aceh (Aceh), Padang Pariaman (West Sumatra) and Mahakam Ulu (East Kalimantan) have become several areas with the highest Education Cost transactions," explained Yosep.

He continued, in the same period, a number of areas with the highest state revenue transactions covered Bombana Regency (Southeast Sulawesi), North Central Timor and Konawe (Southeast Sulawesi), Pulang Pisau (Central Kalimantan), to North Lombok (West Nusa Tenggara).

The number of users of State Revenue products has almost tripled in the first semester of 2022, compared to the same period in 2021.

Tokopedia became the first Indonesian technology company to present a digital product of State Revenue. This product was launched in August 2019 through collaboration with the Director General of Treasury of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia.

In addition to the category of State Education and Revenue Fees, Tokopedia digital products also include E-Samsat and PBB payment features. Over the past year, transactions through digital products E-Samsat and PBB each increased by about 1.5 times.

Region Kutai Kartanegara (East Kalimantan), Medan (North Sumatra), Trenggalek (East Java), Sampang (East Java), to Balikpapan (East Kalimantan) became a number of areas with the highest increase in 'E-Samsat' transactions over the past year, compared to the previous year.

On the other hand, in the same period, Kediri Regency (East Java), Bojonegoro (East Java), Pangkal Pinang (Bangka Belitung Islands), Malang (East Java) and Makassar (South Sulawesi) are some areas with the highest increase in "PBB" transactions.

"We welcome the public's high enthusiasm for digital products at Tokopedia. We hope that dozens of our digital products can continue to make it easier for the Indonesian people to meet their needs," concluded Yosep.