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

By Jet Damazo-Santos
  • 18 May 2021 05:39
  • 18 May 2021 17:56
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.   
The 13 types of products — which comprise various types of Muslim clothing, accessories,

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Jet Damazo-Santos

Correspondent, Jakarta


Jet Damazo-Santos has been covering antitrust, data protection and other compliance issues in key jurisdictions in Southeast Asia for MLex full time since 2018. She has almost two decades of journalism experience in the Philippines and Indonesia, where she was the associate editor for the Jakarta Globe and the Jakarta bureau chief for Rappler Indonesia prior to joining MLex. She holds a master's degree in Applied Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific.

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