Revision Of Permendag Completed, TikTok Can No Longer Sell Cheap Imported Products

Deputy Minister of Trade Jerry Sambuaga (Photo: Mery Handayani/VOI)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Trade (Kemendag) will immediately complete regulations for imported goods entering the Indonesian market through social media platforms that are concurrently e-commerce, such as TikTok. The plan, the regulation will be signed tomorrow by the Minister of Trade Zulkifli Hasan.

The rules in question are the revision of Permendag Number 50 of 2020 concerning Provisions for Business Licensing, Advertising, Guidance, and Supervision of Business Actors in Trade Through Electronic Systems.

Deputy Minister of Trade Jerry Sambuaga said that with the revision of the memandag, TikTok could no longer sell imported goods at very low prices.

For your information, TikTok shop is currently the pros and cons because it is considered to have killed local business actors, especially Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs).

"I want to say that we don't want imported goods from outside to enter platforms that don't go through procedures," he said when met at the Borobudur Hotel, Jakarta, Monday, September 25.

Furthermore, Jerry explained that imported goods that enter the Indonesian market must go through stages such as tariff regulations, import duties, and others.

"And there are outside goods coming in through the platform, he doesn't go through these stages. Now this is what we want to try to manage," he said.

Jerry said, TikTok already has a representative permit, but only as a social media platform, not as an e-commerce platform.

"The point is that we don't have a ban or not, but the matter of regulating what we manage is the platform. When he is social media and there is a leader who can't interfere, then he can't interfere. That's simple," he explained.