Suwandi Soh is co-founder and CEO of Mekari. In 2015 the team started Jurnal, a cloud accounting product, through PT Jurnal Consulting Indonesia. Daniel Witono leads product and Anthony Kosasih leads operations.
Most small businesses in Indonesia then kept paper ledgers, so Jurnal sold simple online bookkeeping to owners who are not accountants. East Ventures and Mandiri Capital are among its investors.
In 2018 and 2019 Jurnal joined Mekari, which brought together Talenta for payroll and HR, Klikpajak for tax filing, Qontak for customer conversations and Sign for digital signatures. In 2020 Jurnal had more than 10,000 users.
In May 2022 Money Forward, a Japanese cloud accounting company, led a $50 million Series E. Mekari competes with Accurate, Zahir, Xero, Kledo and Gadjian.