![]() ![]() "We made a conscious deliberate decision as a company to not open up cross-border business here. ![]() The Indonesian government's stance makes the Southeast Asian country the first to publicly push back against the yet-to-be launched initiative by TikTok, as the company seeks to replicate the success shopping platforms like Shein and PDD Holdings' Temu have had in Europe and the U.S.Īnggini Setiawan, Head of Communications, TikTok Indonesia, told Reuters it had no intention to launch such a platform in Indonesia. On Thursday, Indonesia's Minister of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Teten Masduki told local media he had met TikTok and expressed concerns that a launch of such a program in the country could hurt small businesses, adding that the company had promised it would not do so.įiki Satari, a special advisor to the minister, confirmed the minister's comments to Reuters and said that they were worried such a program would increase the risk of "unequal playing field and predatory pricing" for small businesses. The short video app, owned by China's ByteDance, has been working on a program to help Chinese merchants sell goods globally, which it has been trialing in the UK and plans to officially roll out to consumers in the United States next month, Reuters reported on Wednesday citing a source. JAKARTA/HONG KONG (Reuters) - TikTok said it has no plans to roll out a cross-border business in Indonesia as a government minister on Thursday expressed concerns over how reported plans for a new e-commerce push by the firm could flood the country with Chinese products. ![]()
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