Indonesian e-commerce to blacklist sales of imported thrift clothes

Thrift shopping, buying second-hand goods, has been getting popular in Indonesia, and imported thrift clothes are believed to have disrupted the domestic textile industry. - JP

JAKARTA (Xinhua): Online shopping platforms in Indonesia will blacklist and take down sellers that sell imported second-hand clothes, the Indonesian E-Commerce Association announced Thursday (March 16).

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.