Netizens Raided Instagram Account, Zulhas: Government Doesn't Anti-Trade Online

JAKARTA - Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan received many comments on his Instagram account @zul.hasan, after the enactment of Permendag Number 31 of 2023. Many netizens complained that they had been forced to be laid off or affected by layoffs due to the closure of the buying and selling service on TikTok Shop.

One of them is an account with the name @calvinkim93, he said that in his area there is an aci meatball factory and fried meatballs or bas reng that employs housewives. However, due to the new TikTok Shop rules, it is no longer allowed to operate to make employees laid off.

Fortunately. Here, there is an aci and bull meatball factory where up to 1 village is invited to work at this factory. And now it's closed, the plan is to get half fired. Even many mothers complain about their fate because there are many assignments on TikTok," he wrote, quoted by VOI, Thursday, October 5.

Similarly, an account with the name @claoudierey admitted that 50 people in his office had to be laid off because the TikTok Shop service was stopped.

"Actually, I know you must think carefully about this, only at least before deciding how to solve it first? These are 50 people in my office who are housed, including me," he said.

Meanwhile, an account with the name @rpecros asked Zulkifli Hasan to learn first about trade before becoming Minister of Commerce.

"You should first learn about trade and new MSMEs to become minister of trade. Greetings from MSME practitioners," he wrote.

As if responding to the village that was raised on his social media account, the man who is familiarly called Zulhas emphasized that the government is not anti-trade online. However, he said that the government must organize online trade in the country so that fair trade occurs.

"We emphasize that in principle the government is not anti-online trading, online trading is a necessity. However, the government must organize it for the sake of the realization of fair trade," Zulhas wrote on his Instagram account, quoted Thursday, October 5.

Zulhas has alleged TikTok as social media is still running. He said the government did not ban TikTok. However, its practice must also be as social media.

If you want to run the function of advertising and promotion, please take care of the social commerce permit, but if you want to carry out the function of buying and selling transactions, please take care of the Government's e-commerce license with pleasure, it will help accelerate the processing of permits. According to the applicable regulations," he said.

According to Zulhas, this is the government's commitment to present a trade ecosystem that accommodates all parties to grow and progress together, without killing each other.