Viral Hashtag #SellerAsingB KillUMKM Due To The Flood Of Imports Of Cheap Goods From China, Who Is Mr. Hu?

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JAKARTA - The hashtag #SellerAsingB KillUMKM has recently enlivened Twitter's social media. Warganet talked about the figure of 'Mr. Hu 'is reportedly a foreign seller from China who sells various household products and other goods at very low prices through a marketplace in Indonesia.

A netizen with the @LXJAEMIN account revealed that any purchase of goods originating from China must be sent with one sender name, namely Mr. Hu.

"Mr. Hu is trending. Surely every case or item purchases from China the name of the sender is Mr. Hu," he wrote, quoted on Thursday, February 18.

The influencer, Dr. Tirta Mandira Hudhi, also raised his voice regarding the foreign seller. He explained the action of Mr. Hu can damage the sustainability of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the country. This was revealed through his personal Twitter account @tirta_hudi on Wednesday, February 17.

"Mr. @jokowi even though he has made the Proud program Made in Indonesia. But our citizens are used to buying cheap goods, where do they come from, the important thing is cheap. Wrong customer? Yo ora. That is the right of the customer to choose. This gap is used by e-commerce and sellers. foreign, "wrote Tirta.

Responding to this, economic observer from the Institute for Development of Economics and Finance (Indef) Bhima Yudhistira said, the hashtag #SellerAsingB KillUMKM which has become a trending topic on social media, Twitter is an aspiration conveyed by the public.

According to him, the government must strictly regulate the portion of imported goods sold on domestic e-commerce platforms. This is to prevent MSMEs from competing in their own country.

"I have long reminded the government to regulate the import portion of goods on the e-commerce platform. For example, issue a maximum regulation of 30 percent of imported goods by country origin in e-commerce," he said in Jakarta, Thursday, February 18.

Not only that, Bhima said the government is encouraging more MSMEs to enter the digital platform. On the other hand, competition with imported goods has been liberalized. As a result, there is imbalance.

"Sooner or later, imported goods that are already dominant on the e-commerce platform will be given more space. If in the past the import process was difficult, now we just have to sit back and forth between goods from China door to door to the front of consumers," he explained.

For your information, this case has sparked the curiosity of netizens to trace Mr. Hu. Their search eventually led to one name, namely Hu Jianhua, who is the President of China Merchants Group Ltd.

Previously, Hu also served as Vive Chairman. In addition, he is a member of the board of directors of China Merchants Port Holding.

One of the netizens, Milmul, in his account @gerobakmilmul explained that Mr Hu is the President Director of CMHK, which owns Sinotrans, the largest logistics company in China.

"The contents of the company are lecturers in Marketing Management and Sociology. One of them is insurance sales master in China. They are all Chinese state-owned enterprises that have been programmed long ago," he said.