The small business criteria according to article 6
paragraph (2) of The Law of Republic Indonesia No.
20 year 2008 is to have a net worth of more than Rp
50,000,000 (fifty million rupiah) up to at most Rp.
500.000.000 (five hundred million rupiah) not includ-
ing land and buildings or places of business has an-
nual sales of more than us $300 million (three hun-
dred million rupiah) up to at most 2.5 billion rupiah
(two billion five hundred million rupiah). While for
businesses that value of assets as well as turnover un-
der the small business criteria, is a kind of micro en-
terprises.
It can not be denied that the small business owner
is one of the pillars of the economy that must get the
opportunity, support, protection, and development of
existence (Komarudin, 2014). Related to the protec-
tion against the small business owner, The Law of Re-
public Indonesia No. 5 of 1999 on the The prohibition
of Monopoly Practice and Unfair Business Competi-
tion in Indonesia is one of the regulations that protect
small businesses owners by banning all activities of
businessmen that led to the economic concentration
in the hands of businessmen or groups of businessmen
with certain business, and prohibits all unfair compe-
tition (fraud). This is because the philosophy or back-
ground of the enactment of the law on the Prohibi-
tion of Monopoly Practice and Unfair Business Com-
petition is to provide protection against small busi-
ness owner by giving the guarantee of the existence of
the equal business opportunity among every citizens
of Indonesia. With the guarantee of the opportunity
of equal business opportunity and ban all forms of
monopoly practice and unfair business competition,
then the threat of a major financier of strength will
get rid of the small businessmen can be avoided.
Regarding to the protection against the small busi-
ness owner, which according to the writer is interest-
ing to be discussed further was the exception of small
business owner from entry into force of the act as
stated in Article 50-point H on The Law of Republic
Indonesia No. 5 Year 1999 concerning the prohibition
of Monopoly Practice and unfair business competi-
tion. This exception means that The Law of Republic
Indonesia No. 5 Year 1999 concerning the prohibi-
tion of Monopoly Practice and unfair competition is
not applicable to small businesses owner. Further, be-
cause of this exception, small business owner is not
prohibited from doing any act or activity that is pro-
hibited by law concerning the practice of monopoly
and unfair business competition.
Exceptions to the principals of small businesses
got a different response (pros and cons) from the ob-
server of business and competition law and research
that is conducted in Indonesia. According to A. Ju-
naidi, with the exception of this the Legislative ap-
pears to hope there is a chance for small business
owner to develop themselves to not losing the busi-
ness competition or at least get the same opportuni-
ties with medium and large businessmen
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. Mean-
while, according to Mustafa Kamal Rokan, the reason
of the grant of privilege in the form of exceptions to
these small business owners due to the presumption
that small entrepreneurs still need protection in order
to develop, as well as for reasons of social the small
entrepreneurs that the position is weak, so that votes
will not likely make a monopoly (Rokan, 2010).
In line with that according to Ngurah Manik Sid-
harta and I Ketut Markeling, the reason for the exis-
tence of the privilege in the form of granting excep-
tions to these small businessmen due to the presump-
tion that small entrepreneurs still need protection in
order to develop, as well as social reasons that the
weak position of small entrepreneurs, so that votes
will not likely make a monopoly (Shidarta and Marke-
ling, 2017). Similar with it anyway, and Darren says
that in fact exceptions to the perpetrator of a small
business is a form of protection provided by the Act
No. 5 of 1999 th on the prohibition of Monopoly
Practice and unfair competition against perpetrators
of small businesses. He said further protection against
the perpetrators of a small business that was supposed
to be given, since they may not able to compete with
medium and large businessmen (Hermansyah, 2008).
On the other hand, based on reports from Research
on Business Actors Awareness on the Enforcement
of the Competition Law and Awareness on the New
Commission in several big cities in Indonesia, in gen-
eral the respondent does not approve the exception of
small business owner from The Law of Republic In-
donesia No. 5 Year 1999 concerning the prohibition
of Monopoly Practice and unfair competition. The
basic foundation of the primary consideration is that
this exclusion is contrary to the fundamental equation
in the presence of the law (equality before the law). In
addition, there is also concern that with this exception
gave the small business owner can have the opportu-
nity for doing monopoly and unfair business compe-
tition, while not obviously small business owner cri-
teria so that it can result for misuse of status or posi-
tions owned by parties that take advantage by taking
refuge in that position (Rokan, 2010). In the mean-
time, Susanti Adi Nugroho argues that the exception
relating to the protection of small business principals
by The Law of Republic Indonesia No. 5 Year 1999
concerning The prohibition of Monopoly Practice and
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Junaidi, A., KPPU Protecting Small Business Ac-
cess, Jurnal Berkala Komisi Pengawas Persaingan Usaha.
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