Jakarta Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan stated that the government, on Monday, will sign a regulation prohibiting social media platforms to facilitate social commerce.Hasan explained that social media platforms are only allowed to promote goods or services though are prohibited from being the platform for trade transactions.
“Social (media platforms) can only facilitate the promotion of goods or services and cannot (facilitate) direct transaction and direct payments, (so) it can no longer be, it can only be promotional,” he stated after a limited meeting chaired by the president at the Presidential Palace Complex here on Monday.
The minister remarked that like television, social or other digital media platforms can only be a place to promote products and not as platforms for transactions.
“As a digital platform, it should only serve as a platform for promotion,” he stressed.
The new regulation to be signed on Monday afternoon is a revision to Ministerial Regulation No. 50 of 2020.
Source: Antara News Agency