Indonesia’s government has issued a new regulation to reign in e-commerce on social media platforms, citing harm to small businesses hawking their wares mostly offline.The regulation comes in response to long-time complaints from small-scale offline traders saying their income have been hurt by the rise of online sales.Indonesian Minister of Trade Zulkifli Hasan said in a press conference on Wednesday that the step was taken to enable small and medium-scale enterprises to compete in a fair, healthy, and beneficial business ecosystem.According to the new regulation issued by the Ministry of Trade, social media can only be used as an advertising platform…
Can Indonesia’s social media e-commerce ban help merchants? – DW (English)
