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Garena's profits built Shopee, so why is Shopee now the one funding Forrest Li's next bet?
Within twelve months Monee's loan book passes US$18 billion and Brazil alone crosses US$2 billion, a bet that holds only if Sea keeps underwriting new borrowers off Shopee's own data without breaking the 1 percent delinquency rate the expansion has held so far.
Should a Bandung seller under US$28,000 a year let Shopee withhold 0.5%? One form stops it
Since 1 October, Shopee, Tokopedia, Lazada and Blibli withhold 0.5% of Indonesian sellers’ gross sales as income tax. Individual sellers with yearly turnover up to US$28,000 are exempt, but only after filing a written declaration with the marketplace.
Sorting 10,000 customer messages for under US$1? Cloudflare’s open Clef model reads and tags them
Cloudflare released Clef, an open model that answers set questions about a message, such as which team should handle it. Hosted, it costs US$0.24 per million tokens, the word pieces models bill by; the download is free for commercial use.
Still paying someone to click through portals and forms? OpenAI's new model does it for a fifth of the price
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol, a model that writes code and operates a computer screen by itself, at about one-fifth the cost of its top model, Astra. On a benchmark of science tasks it averaged US$5.47 a task against US$23.21 for Claude Opus 5.5.
What changes for a Jakarta seller on 1 October? Shopee starts withholding 0.5% of gross sales
Indonesia's tax office confirmed Shopee, Tokopedia, Lazada and Blibli will withhold 0.5 percent of gross sales as income tax from 1 October. Sellers turning over under US$28,000 a year stay exempt.
Who eats the surprise customs bill? FedEx will guarantee the checkout quote for US$99 a month
FedEx opened Global Trade Navigator on 9 September: a free planner that estimates duties, taxes and fees from a product description or photo with no login, plus a US$99-a-month Shopify app that covers any shortfall against the quote.
Indonesia halved e-commerce platform fees. Cross-border sellers got none.
On the inner citadel, and the week Jakarta decided which e-commerce sellers count as local enough for a fifty percent discount.
Four marketplaces just became tax collectors: Indonesia withholds 0.5% of every seller's turnover
From August 1, Tokopedia, Shopee, Lazada, and Blibli withhold 0.5% of gross seller turnover as income tax under PMK 37/2025. Sellers below 500 million rupiah a year can claim exemption on declaration.