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Judul : BPOM, E-Commerce Giants Partner Up to Monitor Food, Drug
Sales

Nama Media : tempo.co

Tanggal : 17 Oktober 2019
Halaman/URL: https://en.tempo.co/read/1260886/bpom-e-commerce-giants-partner-
up-to-monitor-food-drug-sales

Tipe Media : Online

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Food
and Drug Monitoring Agency
(BPOM) has officially signed a
partnership deal with six established
e-commerce platforms joined in the
Indonesia E-Commerce Association
(idEA) to further monitor food and
drug products sold online.

The six e-commerce platforms are
Go-Jek, Grab, Tokopedia, Bukalapak, Klikdokter, and Halodoc. This partnership is
effective for the next two years, with an optional contract extension by the end of it.

“In its principle, the six of them must comply with the standards for products sold
offline,” said BPOM Chairman Penny Lukito in the signing of the deal held in his office
in Jakarta.

The monitoring agency’s supervision on troublesome drug and food products sold
online was only limited to the issuance of a letter of notice to marketplace owners.
That would be followed by the marketplace dropping the product in question.

This new partnership allows the monitoring agency and the six e-commerce platforms
to significantly improve their collective monitoring abilities. They will focus on
monitoring online food and drug sales, data information exchange, up to informing the
public and educating them about this partnership.

The Food and Drug Monitoring Agency's move follows the massive market of illegal
food and drug products sold online that are seen to not meet its health and safety
standards. Head of idEA’s consumers’ protection, Agnes Susanto says that the
aforementioned e-commerce will certainly comply with the rules.