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Shopee Indonesia to stop selling imported Muslim items in the wake of SME controversy

By Jet Damazo-Santos ( May 18, 2021, 10:09 GMT | Insight) -- Shopee, the leading e-commerce platform in Indonesia, has agreed to stop selling several types of imported Muslim fashion and accessories in the country estimated to be worth 300 trillion rupiah ($21 billion) per year. The move comes in the wake of complaints that cheap Chinese products sold through the platform are killing Indonesian SMEs, and government plans to more closely regulate e-commerce platforms.E-commerce platform Shopee will no longer sell 13 types of imported products in Indonesia in order to support local businesses who produce the same items, the company and the country’s minister for SMEs announced today.   ...

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