Consumer Rights Protection Against Price Gouging During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

Atikah, Ika

doi:10.32890/uumjls2022.13.2.5

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“…Urgent needs have an impact on low interest in buying and selling as a result of unfair price setting by entrepreneurs. This creates economic difficulties for consumers and harms society in meeting their needs (Atikah, 2022;Sekotibo, 2021).…”

Section: Literature Review Agricultural Produce Transactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legality of Agricultural Products Weight Cutting as a Cost of Risk in Trade

Arianti,

Mughits

et al. 2023

JURIS

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Agricultural goods transactions with toke (in Bahasa is known as a traditional market agent) always carry a weight cutting of one to 2 kilograms per bag. Risk reduction is considered a burden to be borne. Therefore, how to study the law in the aspect of risk imposition when transactions occur between plantation farmers and toke in traditional markets. The aim of this research was to examine how weighing is carried out and the recognition of the weight of agricultural products on scales is associated with possible risks that will occur in the future. This research method was qualitative, field research. Data sources were garden sellers/farmers and toke in traditional markets. Data collection through interviews and examination of artifacts. Data analysis technique was qualitative descriptive. The research finding showed that when the agricultural harvest was sold, there was a scale cut of around 2 kg per bag, such as chilies, ginger, corn and so on. The result of reducing the scale in dealing with the risks that will occur with irregular goods. The risk was borne by the farmer/seller, this was suspected and endangers the continuity of the relationship between farmer, toke, retailer towards objects that change naturally. Cutting the weight of the scales was still permitted as long as it was within appropriate limits. Recommendations for cutting the weight of the scales when changing goods and not fixed goods.

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Section: Literature Review Agricultural Produce Transactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legality of Agricultural Products Weight Cutting as a Cost of Risk in Trade

Arianti,

Mughits

et al. 2023

JURIS

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“…The Covid-19 pandemic forced consumers to exercise social distancing and self-lockdown, which led them to rely heavily on online shopping (Atikah, 2022). The presence of popular shopping websites such as Zalora, Lazada, Shopee, Ezbuy, Zapmeta, and many more online platforms has increased the trend not only for business-to-consumers (B2C) online business, but also consumer-to-consumer (C2C) transactions.…”

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Consumer Protection Against the False Description of Halal in E-Commerce

Muhamad Nazari,

Abu Bakar,

Muhammad Arif

2023

UUMJLS

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The rapid emergence and growth of e-commerce have caused an increase in halal issues, especially with the false description of Halalin E-Commerce amongst the various online platform providers. More specifically, halal issues that need legal attention include safety issues, deceptive conduct, misleading representation, and false description. This study aims to analyse the adequacy of the Consumer Protection Act 1999 to protect consumers, especially regarding false descriptions of halal in online transactions. To achieve this objective, the approach is to adopt a qualitative research method, in which content analysis is made by comparing the consumer protection laws in force in other countries. The findings of this study revealed several challenges in applying such laws, which used ambiguous terminologies and imposed limited liabilities on online market operators. A few recommendations have been put forward, such as the interpretation of terms such as ‘consumer,’ ‘goods,’ ‘description,’ and ‘suppliers’ needs. These terminologies have to be revised, in addition to extend the liabilities of online market operators so that there will be better consumer protection for Muslims when they shop online.

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Anti-price-gouging law is neither good nor bad in itself: a proposal of narrative numeric method for transdisciplinary social discourses

Byun,

2024

npj Nat. Hazards

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Multiple authorities have introduced an anti-price-gouging law to prevent sellers from raising prices higher than what is considered reasonable. Effectiveness of the law has been heatedly debated in various disciplines such as economics, ethics and politics. In this article, we investigate its effectiveness by developing a model that simulates a post-earthquake situation and apply the model to San Francisco, CA, USA. The model accounts for various competing forces, i.e. post-disaster increase in production cost and demands, assets damage, donation and hoarding. Thereby, it returns multiple decision metrics, i.e. unfulfilled needs in basic goods, repair periods and well-being loss caused by insufficient supplies and increased prices. The result shows that the optimal level of a price cap depends on a decision metric and local conditions. This indicates that the problem does not have a single optimal decision, but rather a compromise needs to be made between conflicting decision metrics. Generalising this observation, we propose a narrative numeric (NN) method as a new social discourse method. The objective of the NN method does not lie in concluding the most truthful argument, but rather in identifying a decision scenario that yields an agreeable compromise to (hopefully) all stakeholder groups.

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Consumer Rights Protection Against Price Gouging During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

Cited by 3 publications

References 11 publications

Legality of Agricultural Products Weight Cutting as a Cost of Risk in Trade

Legality of Agricultural Products Weight Cutting as a Cost of Risk in Trade

Consumer Protection Against the False Description of Halal in E-Commerce

Anti-price-gouging law is neither good nor bad in itself: a proposal of narrative numeric method for transdisciplinary social discourses

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