Ministers have repeatedly said that e-commerce sellers using predatory pricing on social media
JAKARTA - Indonesia may issue on Tuesday a regulation on the use of social media to sell goods in the country, President Joko Widodo said, a move intended to quell threats to offline markets in Southeast Asia's biggest economy.
"We just...decided on the use of social media for e-commerce. Tomorrow it will perhaps come out," Widodo, who is commonly known as Jokowi, said in a streamed video address on Monday. Jokowi did not mention any specific companies or offer further details on the regulation, which is being formulated by the trade ministry.Deputy Trade Minister Jerry Sambuaga said earlier this month that "social media and social commerce cannot be combined," vowing to ban the mix of the two and citing TikTok's "live" features which allow people to sell goods.