Indonesia's tech giant GoTo reports significant drop in Q3 underlying losses

Indonesia's biggest tech firm PT GoTo Gojek Tokopedia, popularly known as GoTo reported 942 billion rupiah ($59.30 million) in underlying losses for the third quarter, a significant drop from last year's 3.7 trillion rupiah, the company said on Monday.

The results came after the company reached a positive contribution margin since the beginning of this year amid cost-cutting measures.

"This was underpinned by a reduction in operating expenses as we eliminated redundancies and leveraged our technology to reduce costs," GoTo Group CFO Jacky Lo said in the statement.


GoTo, which offers ride-hailing, e-commerce, and financial services, said its net losses for the period were at 2.4 trillion rupiah, a drop from last year's 6.7 trillion rupiah.

The group still aims to make a profit by end of this year, it added.

GoTo, backed by Japan's SoftBank Group and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, also said in the statement it will not pursue an initial public offering in the international markets at the moment as it has enough cash needed for its operations.