Tentang Anak launches ecommerce feature to implement its mission to serve parents with the best education and products, where their new parenting book series “Emotions” will also be available to follow-up the best-seller success of their first book series

Jakarta, 21 July 2022 – Tentang Anak, the Indonesian digital-first parenting ecosystem and trusted parenting partner from pregnancy to early child development, announces the launch of ecommerce on its parenting app for Indonesian children. The Tentang Anak app, officially launched in Feburary 2022, has seen its user growth reach 20x since launch, becoming top 3 on Play Store for the parenting category and top 4 on the App Store in the education category.

This announcement was made through their launch event on National Children’s Day 2022, where the company invited Indonesian parents to commemorate the special day as a reminder of children’s rights, in line with the country’s Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Children Protection (PPPA).

From L-R: Garri Juanda, Tentang Anak Co-founder, Grace E. Sameve, M.A, M.Psi, Psychologist (Principal Child Psychologist Tentang Anak), Marsha Tengker, B.A.,M. Sc.,M.Psi., Psychologist (Principal of Adult and Family Psychologist Tentang Anak) or widely known as Caca Tengker

This ecommerce launch builds upon Tentang Anak’s mission of building a one-stop parenting solution to accompany the journey of 30 million Indonesian parents in the various aspects of parenting from health education to psychology to meeting their children’s daily needs. This mission began with the launch of their app back in February this year, which primarily featured educational content and easier access to a range of parenting and childcare experts. With ecommerce services now available as well, products across various categories curated by Tentang Anak’s experts that meet health and safety standards for children can be purchased by parents through the app, consolidating the entire journey for parents to research and shop for their children’s needs in one platform.  

As Tentang Anak co-founder, Tokopedia alumnus, and ecommerce veteran Garri Juanda explains,  “Since Tentang Anak was established in 2020, Tentang Anak has reached more than 28 million parents through education on various platforms. This has inspired us to continue listening to the needs of Indonesian parents and children, by launching ecommerce on our app. 

With ecommerce now available on the Tentang Anak app, parents are able to shop easier and worry-free in order to fulfill their children’s needs because the products presented are the result of curation from Tentang Anak’s experts and have met health as well as safety standards for children. On top of that, products that can be found through our platform are coming from various categories including the essentials for newborns, healthcare, weaning food, and even for travel with children. Shopping on our platform is even easier because parents are able to shop in one delivery service, therefore hopefully the time that was previously spent on research and shopping for children’s needs can be allocated to quality time with family.”

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“With ecommerce now available on the Tentang Anak app, parents are able to shop easier and worry-free in order to fulfil their children’s needs because the products presented are the result of curation from Tentang Anak’s experts and have met health as well as safety standards for children.” – Garri Juanda

This ecommerce launch is able to leverage the trust and education foundation Tentang Anak had built through the launch of their app from earlier this year. Yinglan Tan, Founding Managing Partner of Tentang Anak early investor Insignia Ventures says, “Having invested in several digital-first commerce or commerce enabler companies in Indonesia, we have seen how digitalization is rapidly changing various aspects of Indonesian life and producing new verticalized platforms suited to tackling pain points in these specific aspects. Such is the case for Tentang Anak, with their unique approach to becoming the trusted companion for Indonesian parents in raising children. This ecommerce launch has been part of their vision from day one, and up to this point they have been laying the foundations for this launch through their popular, science-based app and growing community. As early partners of Mesty, Garri, and their team, we look forward to Tentang Anak’s latest launch becoming the stepping stone to even greater impact for parenting in Indonesia.”

“This ecommerce launch has been part of their vision from day one, and up to this point they have been laying the foundations for this launch through their popular, science-based app and growing community.” – Yinglan Tan

In an article published by the venture capital firm, they noted that parent spending for children in their first seven years across healthcare, education, and other products has also surpassed US$53 billion and is also expected to continue increasing, pointing towards the growing market opportunity to be the digital-first parenting partner for parents in Indonesia.

One of the highlighted products available for purchase on their app is Tentang Anak’s new parenting book series, titled “Emotions”, which follows up on their best-selling first book series. This new book series was also launched in Tentang Anak’s National Children’s Day Event.

Alongside with the launch of commerce feature, Tentang Anak also holds a Grand Launch shopping campaign with #AhlinyaKebutuhanSiKecil tagline, with details as below: 

• Available since 25-31 July 2022 
• Discount up to 60% for selected favourite products 
• “Emotions” book series will be exclusively sold through Tentang Anak application 
• Free delivery and free exclusive poster “I can be calm” 
• Curated and original products including from Transpulmin, Hansaplast, Milna, Soft Mate, Kuntoem, and many more 

One of the speakers who is also an expert in Tentang Anak, Grace E. Sameve, M.A, M.Psi, Psychologist (Principal Child Psychologist Tentang Anak) adds, “After receiving such positive feedback on out first book launching in 2020, we are now back to present our newest work with the book series “Emotions” which has 4 book titles (Happy, Mad, Sad, Worry) and educational series through posters and flashcards. Through these products, we hope to help parents introduce different types of emotions so that children can manage emotional experiences later in life.”

On the same occasion, Marsha Tengker, B.A.,M. Sc.,M.Psi., Psychologist (Principal of Adult and Family Psychologist Tentang Anak) or widely known as Caca Tengker, brings up, “I personally have a commitment that is in line with Tentang Anak and that is positive education, physical health and mental health are the rights of all children. In addition, I, as a representative of Indonesian parents in this era, am also very grateful that there is a platform like Tentang Anak that I can reach anytime and anywhere through my smartphone. So, there is no need to hesitate anymore in terms of parenting, because there are solutions for various needs directly from the experts, from studying to shopping for children’s needs.”

Tentang Anak is available for download on Play Store and Apple Store.

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