Guidance for the Community Related to the Protection of the Rights of Food Consumers (As the Application of Indonesia Law Number 8 of 1999 Concerning Consumer)
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.295How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- protection, rights, consumers
- Abstract
The number of goods and services products is strongly influenced by technological developments and the complex needs of the community in various ways business actors to promote and trade systems. This development can provide benefits to consumers to meet all their needs and freedom in choosing the type and quality of goods and/or services needed. According to Article 1 Number 2 Consumers are every person who uses goods and/or services available in the community, both for the sake of themselves, family, other people and other living beings and not for trading. There are a number of things that need immediate attention in government responsibility, before further conditions and the position of consumers as users of goods and/or services are getting weaker and there is no balance between business actors and consumers who only exploit consumers for trade and gain profits. As big as possible, so that consumers need to be smart in choosing food to be consumed as mandated by the law. So it is very necessary to deliver information to consumers to be careful in consuming products such as goods and services, in accordance with the standards for eligibility for consumption. One of the efforts undertaken is to provide community service in the form of outreach and legal outreach relating to the Development of the Community Related to the Protection of the Rights of Food Consumers as the Application of Law No. 8 of 1999 concerning Consumer Protection. This article is the Result of Community Service The type of research that will be used is sociological research, which is to find out the implementation of legal counselling relating to community development related to the importance of being an active consumer in paying attention to products consumed before misuse of opportunities by business actors for the substances contained or products circulating is endangering consumers in general if consumed.
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TY - CONF AU - Riska Fitriani AU - Maryati Bachtiar AU - Emilda Firdaus PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/29 TI - Guidance for the Community Related to the Protection of the Rights of Food Consumers (As the Application of Indonesia Law Number 8 of 1999 Concerning Consumer) BT - Proceedings of the Riau Annual Meeting on Law and Social Sciences (RAMLAS 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 174 EP - 177 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.295 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.295 ID - Fitriani2020 ER -