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JAKARTA - The Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs (Menkop UKM) admitted that they still found the promotion of illegal used clothes on social media, one of which was on Instagram.

Related to this, Teten asked Instagram to take down if there were parties who were still creating the illegal goods promotional content.

"We urge Instagram to send (contents) promoting or selling illegal used clothes," said Teten when met at the Kemenkop UKM Building, Jakarta, Wednesday, October 25.

Teten added that his party recently still found the rise of Instagram user accounts selling used clothes through social media. In fact, he said, the sale of used imported clothes was clearly prohibited by the state.

"We found an account (Instagram) in Bandung that sells used clothing products, it's illegal," he said

He also emphasized that his party had met with Instagram and asked the platform to lower (take down) accounts for the sale of used imported clothing.

According to Teten, Instagram also has a commitment to control irregularities in content creation in it by users.

"They should have ethics. The global platform period doesn't have ethics. Right, it's nonsense," he said.

The appeal to lower the sales site of clothing used for illegal imports, continued Teten, has also been made against Google and other e-commerce. He explained that the Digital Services Act in the European Union also regulates that platforms apply digital space ethics to protect the business world and create equal playing fields.

Furthermore, Teten emphasized, he will continue to see how Instagram's commitment to eradicating the sale of illegal goods, including used imported clothing through the platform. Although, Indonesia itself does not yet have rules such as the Digital Services Act in the European Union.

"We want to ask for a commitment (Instagram). They, right, business here, this (the sale account of used illegal import clothes) also interferes with the Indonesian economy. Not because they (Instagram) a Global platform, they can manage themselves, they can't," he concluded.


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