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        "msgid": "yesterdays-highlights-potential-e-commerce-regulation-changes-and-fuel-shortages-in-makassar-1789693123",
        "date": "2026-09-18 07:28:05",
        "title": "Yesterday's Highlights: Potential E-commerce Regulation Changes and Fuel Shortages in Makassar",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Economy",
        "summary": "A summary of key economic developments in Indonesia, including the Minister of Trade's openness to revising e-commerce regulations and the resolution of fuel shortages in Makassar. The report also covers legal actions against fortified rice counterfeiters and a significant potential stake acquisition in Bayan Resources.",
        "content": "<p>Various economic events occurring throughout Thursday (17\/9) remain\nhighly relevant for review this Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>These include everything from the potential for changes in electronic\ncommerce or e-commerce regulations to the issue of fuel shortages in\nMakassar, South Sulawesi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minister of Trade opens possibility to amend e-commerce rules\nfollowing developments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Trade, Budi Santoso, has opened the possibility of\nfurther amending electronic commerce or e-commerce regulations to keep\npace with developments and needs within the digital trade ecosystem.\nBudi stated that the Ministry of Trade has updated the provisions for\ntrade through electronic systems (PMSE) via Minister of Trade Regulation\n(Permendag) Number 19 of 2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minister of Agriculture ensures counterfeiters of fortified\nrice will face legal action<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Agriculture, Andi Amran Sulaiman, has ensured that\nperpetrators of fortified rice counterfeiting will be prosecuted,\nfollowing the 102 food mafia suspects previously identified by\nauthorities in a premium rice adulteration case last year. \u201cThis\nfortified rice case is the second chapter in the hunt for rent-seeking\nin food trade, after in 2025 authorities ensnared 102 suspects in the\npremium rice adulteration case which cost consumers Rp98 trillion,\u201d\nAmran confirmed in Jakarta on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ijen Ekspres Train delayed after collision with car in\nJember<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The journey of the Ijen Ekspres train on the Malang-Ketapang route\nexperienced delays due to a collision with a white car (registration\nnumber P 1236 HY), resulting in the death of the driver, Yusril Nur Ibnu\n(21), while being transported to the Bangsalsari Health Centre, Jember\nRegency, East Java, on Thursday. \u201cThe collision involving train KA 239F\n(Ijen Ekspres) on the Malang\u2013Ketapang route with a car occurred on the\nTanggul \u2013 Bangsalsari section, specifically at KM 173+060 around 12:05\nWIB,\u201d said the Legal and Public Relations Manager of Daop 9 Jember,\nCahyo Widiantoro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Haji Isam prepared to purchase 10 billion shares or 30 per\ncent stake in Bayan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Andi Syamsuddin Arsyad, also known as Haji Isam, through his company\nPT Jhonlin Baratama, has signed a conditional share purchase agreement\nwith Low Tuck Kwong and Elaine Low, the majority shareholders of PT\nBayan Resources Tbk (BYAN). The conditional share purchase agreement\nrelates to the planned transfer of 10,000,000,500\u2014or ten billion five\nhundred million\u2014common shares, equivalent to a 30 per cent ownership\nstake in BYAN, to Jhonlin Baratama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bahlil: Fuel shortages in Makassar have been\nresolved<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Bahlil Lahadalia,\nstated that the fuel shortage issue that recently occurred in Makassar,\nSouth Sulawesi, has been resolved and supply conditions have stabilised.\n\u201cWhat happened yesterday in Makassar, Alhamdulillah, has been resolved\nand completed, and I have reported this to the President,\u201d Bahlil said\nat the Presidential Palace Complex in Jakarta on Thursday.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/yesterdays-highlights-potential-e-commerce-regulation-changes-and-fuel-shortages-in-makassar-1789693123",
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