President Jokowi discusses online trade issues with ministers

Jakarta (ANTARA) – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), together with a number of ministers, mentioned points regarding commerce actions on on-line platforms, together with social media platforms, comparable to TikTok, at a restricted assembly held on the Presidential Palace, Jakarta, on Monday.

“(The assembly) was about commerce on digital methods. Sure, (together with) TikTok,” Minister of Communication and Informatics Budi Arie Setiadi remarked on the palace.

Nonetheless, the minister didn’t reveal additional particulars on the factors mentioned by the president and his ministers within the restricted assembly.

In the meantime, Minister of Commerce Zulkifli Hasan defined that the restricted assembly was carried out to debate commerce actions on digital platforms in a complete method.

“Sure, (the assembly mentioned) digital (commerce). The assembly was about e-commerce,” Hasan acknowledged.

Earlier, on Saturday (September 23), President Jokowi expressed his opinion relating to the adverse results ensuing from commerce actions carried out on social commerce platforms, comparable to TikTok Store, which mix the capabilities and options of e-commerce and social media platforms that had been gaining recognition in Indonesia.

The pinnacle of state opined that the Chinese language digital utility ought to have continued to perform as a mere social media platform and never as a web-based buying platform like e-commerce because it harmed home companies, particularly micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

“This (social commerce) has affected the manufacturing of MSMEs and (standard) markets. It (TikTok) is meant to be a social media (platform), not an financial media,” he remarked after inspecting a highway restore undertaking in North Penajam Paser District, East Kalimantan.

Moreover, President Jokowi famous that the federal government had ready a regulation that goals to regulate commerce actions carried out on social media platforms in an effort to management value competitors and defend MSMEs and retailers in standard markets.

“The regulation remains to be within the arms of the Commerce Ministry. Each different factor is full. We simply want to attend for the Commerce Ministry to approve (the regulation),” he identified. 

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