Indonesia's antitrust agency on Tuesday accused e-commerce platform Shopee's local unit of violating anti-competition rules by directing customers to use certain delivery services, news website Bisnis.com reported. The agency, known as KPPU, has found that Shopee from March 2021 stopped listing several delivery service providers it had previously used, leaving customers with two companies as options - one of which has a Shopee Indonesia executive on its board of directors, the news outlet said, citing investigators. KPPU said this week it was investigating the local units of Shopee, owned by Southeast Asian technology firm Sea Ltd and PT Ecart Webportal Indonesia, which operates Lazada, the Southeast Asian arm of Alibaba, but did not elaborate.
Indonesia's anti-trust agency said on Monday it is investigating the local units of e-commerce platforms Shopee and Lazada for suspected violations of anti-competition rules. The companies are PT Shopee Internasional Indonesia, and PT Ecart Webportal Indonesia, which oversee the domestic operations of Shopee and Lazada respectively. The agency did not elaborate on what the alleged breaches of anti-competition rules were.
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