Ministry Of Trade: The Metemic Application Does Not Have An Operational Permit In Indonesia

Director General of Domestic Trade of the Ministry of Trade Isy Karim. (Mery Handayani / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Director General of Domestic Trade at the Ministry of Trade, Isy Karim, emphasized that, noting that the application from China, Temu does not yet have a permit to operate in Indonesia.

For your information, the Temu application is in the spotlight after the Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs Teten Masduki saw a signal of the threat of entry of the Chinese application to Indonesia.

He considered that if the application entered, it could disrupt the MSME product market.

"The findings have actually not registered with us, I have also checked with the Kominfo yet," said Isy, met at the Office of the Ministry of Trade, Jakarta, Wednesday, June 19.

Isy explained that the Temu business model also does not match domestic trading policies.

This is because the application supplies goods from factories to customers or factory to customers directly.

"That's against PP 29 of 2021. So if every activity from factory to consumer must have an intermediary, there must be distributors. So it can't be from factory directly to consumer," he said.

Therefore, Isy emphasized that until now the Ministry of Trade has not issued an operating permit for the Temu application as an e-commerce application in Indonesia.

"Until now there is no permit, we will continue to monitor it intensely," said Isy.