KPPU Referee for Businesses?
There have been several complaints about the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU). Despite this, as well as many technical and financial constraints, the KPPU is determined to persevere.
July 17, 2001
EIGHT businessmen, representing thousands of traditional market stallholders, made an official protest on Thursday last week at the KPPU office. They appeared to be very angry. It is difficult for them, as small-scale entrepreneurs, to be able to accept the KPPU's decision regarding Indomaret's expansion.
In short, KPPU has decided that Indomaret, the heavily capitalized minimarket operation, will be forbidden from opening new outlets within tr
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