Indonesia to regulate domestic e-commerce market
(WorldNews Indonesia)

Indonesia will pass a new regulation that lays out rules for e-commerce, in a bid to promote fair and healthy competition in the domestic market. Among the rules set to be rolled out next month is the requirement for e-commerce players to declare if they carry out cross-border trade, Trade Minister Muhammad Lutfi told The Straits Times. Online platforms selling foreign goods in Indonesia will be subject to the same obligations applied to offline traders offering locally made products, he added. `The regulation seeks to create a level playing field in the domestic market,` he said. `If the offline traders must have...