Indonesian e-commerce to blacklist sales of imported thrift clothes
Published on: Friday, March 17, 2023
By: Bernama
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JAKARTA: Online shopping platforms in Indonesia will blacklist and take down sellers that sell imported second-hand clothes, the Indonesian E-Commerce Association announced Thursday.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has said that thrift shopping, buying second-hand goods, was getting popular in Indonesia, and imported thrift clothes had disrupted the domestic textile industry, reported Xinhua.
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Indonesian Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan has also said that thrift clothing import businesses have inflicted losses on the country.
Indonesia has become one of the world's largest markets for e-commerce.
