The regulation of Competition Law and Anti-Monopoly Law is objectively aimed at ensuring the realization of consumer welfare and the efficient allocation of resources. Advances in technology and the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) have driven significant innovations in the digital economy. Business transactions—whether business to business (B2B), business to customer (B2C), or even customer to customer (C2C)—are now conducted through digital platforms that are no longer limited by conventional market boundaries. The rapid expansion of the digital economy necessitates continuous and comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of existing laws and regulations in preventing and addressing increasingly diverse forms of anti-competitive practices.
Over the past decade, technology companies and marketplace operators have consistently dominated the list of the world’s top ten companies by market capitalization. As of 2024, companies such as Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Alphabet (Google), Amazon.com, Nvidia, Meta Platforms (Facebook), and Tesla were among the top ten.
As early as 2021, UNCTAD, during an expert meeting in Geneva that brought together specialists in competition law and policy from various countries, noted that traditional standards of economic analysis and competition assessment tools—such as market share and the small but significant and non-transitory increase in price (SSNIP) test—are no longer sufficient for evaluating abuse of dominance and merger assessments involving digital platforms. We also observe that various jurisprudence on the enforcement of Competition and Anti-Monopoly Law in Indonesia has been flexibly interpreted and applied in accordance with the dynamics of emerging anti-competitive conduct. It is not uncommon that certain criminal provisions under Law No. 5 of 1999 on the Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices and Unfair Business Competition—which were originally formulated under a per se illegal approach—are applied using a rule of reason approach solely to ensure the realization of the law’s primary objectives: consumer welfare, efficient allocation of resources, and competition fairness.
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