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.

Indonesian Trade Minister Zulkifli Hasan has also said that thrift clothing import businesses have inflicted loss on the country.

Indonesia has become one of the world's largest markets for e-commerce.