TikTok has suspended its Shop feature in Indonesia, the app’s second-largest market. The development comes just days after the Indonesian government gave social media platforms a week’s ultimatum to stop online transactions or face a ban.The government’s decision is aimed at curbing direct sales through apps like TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram, which it believes have hurt the country’s brick-and-mortar businesses. “Now, e-commerce cannot become social media. It is separated,” Zulkifli Hasan, Indonesia’s minister of trade, said in a press conference on September 27. “Social media platforms can only facilitate [the] promotion of goods and services. They should not provide payment transactions…
Millions of sellers stranded as TikTok Shop shutters in Indonesia – Rest of World
