Indonesia won’t lift iPhone 16 ban unless Apple starts manufacturing iPhone components locally
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- 09 Jan 2025
you have to suffer, 09 Jan 2025samsung parts are still made in vietnam and south korea. wh... moreRegardless of where the parts coming from assembly factory means jobs for the people. Its a symbiotic relationship. The government of Indonesia doesn't ask much from Apple. The government also gave years of tax holiday to these factories. Apple being greedy just thinking about their own profit. Not even bother trying to build official Apple stores in Indonesia.
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- 09 Jan 2025
OfficialTRider, 09 Jan 2025The reason is to empower its manufacturing industry.It's symbiotic relationship while Apple will be able to access the market in Indonesia, Apple was also given years of tax holiday. Samsung and xiaomi already made their factories in Indonesia and fulfilled their pledge of investment. Apple has pledged investment since iPhone 7 was released but have not honored their pledge yet. Mockingly Apple made an investment of $23 billion in Vietnam recently, and move their billion dollars of main factory from China to India while never honored their pledge of investment in Indonesia. No wonder government of Indonesia is pissed off by this fact alone.
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- 09 Jan 2025
Anonymous, 08 Jan 2025Indonesia is home to nearly 300 million people, it's a... more2.6m iPhone sales is only 1% of population
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- 09 Jan 2025
Anonymous, 09 Jan 2025I dont know what is wrong with the Indonesian government. I... moreThe reason is because Apple HAS pledged investment for Indonesia for years since iPhone 7. But instead of Indonesia they moved their core production from China to India. Adding insult, Apple made a whooping investment of $23 billion in Vietnam recently. After some negotiations from Indonesia Apple mockingly made investment of a measly $20 million in a form of a building known as Apple Academy located in BSD City Tangerang with a promise of bigger investments. By doing so Apple has been given few years of tax holiday in Indonesia while given access to the market of Indonesia. Basically none of the pledge of investment were honored by Apple yet in Indonesia.
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LMFAO
Oh nooooo! Whatever will Apple do without the oh so important Indonesian market?! 😂
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- 09 Jan 2025
Anonymous, 09 Jan 2025I dont know what is wrong with the Indonesian government. I... moreThe reason is to empower its manufacturing industry.
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- 09 Jan 2025
Anonymous, 09 Jan 2025I dont know what is wrong with the Indonesian government. I... morewhat has no reason? You all don't seem to understand that our government wants companies to invest here and create jobs... at the same time, maybe we can buy iPhones cheaper because we assemble them ourselves rather than importing them from outside.
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- 09 Jan 2025
I dont know what is wrong with the Indonesian government. It just a smartphone after all, you make phone & texts on it, yeah thats all but why the government has to ban iPhone 16 series without any vaild reason?
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- 09 Jan 2025
Anonymous, 08 Jan 2025Look at China, they have gone from poor country to one of t... moreSince when China is richest country? Their average yearly income is only 13% average income of American. 12000USD vs 90000USD.
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Anonymous, 09 Jan 2025No Amazon here, and importing from a different country amaz... moreI think it's time to build a new ecommerce site.
Name it as - Mazon and make me CFO.
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Anonymous, 08 Jan 2025Look at China, they have gone from poor country to one of t... moreEverybody wants to copy china.
But not many will win.
History was like > Britain > United States > China > Mars.
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- 09 Jan 2025
All the LAX, LARIFF, LAN are just an illusion for some kind of dillusion created by those who LOVERN the LEGIME's people.
Just enjoy those random L's.
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- 09 Jan 2025
Darth Caesium, 08 Jan 2025Massive Indonesia L Even as someone who dislikes Apple a... morethe reason why there are rules that every foreign company needs to fullfill and comply the 40 percents domestic materials is to protect domestic industry and small business in Indonesia.
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- 09 Jan 2025
Anonymous, 08 Jan 2025Look at China, they have gone from poor country to one of t... moreLol, never heard any brands form there are successful? They exist like around 11-15 years, has reaching EU and Japan but they worsely unknown, maybe it's because consumptivity and no support from its people, and lacks effort to even list them on gsmarena, if so it's already late, because these brands aren't making phones again, if there any, that is super rare. Their last phones is from 5 years ago, many of them are even just rebrands from Hong Kong OEMs. So no much expectations, but very agreed for manufacturing and assembly.
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- 09 Jan 2025
Darth Caesium, 08 Jan 2025Massive Indonesia L
Even as someone who dislikes Apple a... morerobbing each other is the least the world wants,
robbing samsung, robbing apple. everyone is a loser.
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- 09 Jan 2025
If you asks chatgpt this question "what are 10 countries in Asia has most iOS users?" then you'll find this country are on top 5 position, i don't know Apple's shipments are very low with only 2m per year, maybe people purchasing second hands or wholesale price iPhone from 2-4 years ago or even the refurbished one which is not counted in apple's revenue? This country also has an ass expensive average prices for phones in Asia and it's on position 2 most expensive average after India.
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- 09 Jan 2025
Anonymous, 09 Jan 2025Lots of people, but let’s be honest, those 300 million peop... moreIn this case its still translate to market size. Apple's sales in Indonesia are the largest in Southeast Asia. In 2023, 2.61 million iPhones were sold in the country.
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Anonymous, 09 Jan 2025Lots of people, but let’s be honest, those 300 million peop... moreOf course they don't if you compared to developed country. Well the fact that indonesia is the biggest market for apple in SEA is what makes apple continue to negotiate with indonesia government. If that not important then apple may just leave the market, but they dont.
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- 09 Jan 2025
Anonymous, 08 Jan 2025People really care about such stores?
In my country appl... moreThe results of Indonesian law and the answer only : MONEY.
even you following the rule but without undertable fee... It's useless. All birocrat are corrupt!!!
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- 09 Jan 2025
Anonymous, 08 Jan 2025So all the other brands, Xiaomi, Samsung, Motorola, Oppo an... moreMost of them. Motorola does not operate any factory in Indonesia, but Motorola is not in Indonesia market at all. Basically other phone manufactures that sell 4G/5G phones in Indonesia operate factory. They don't have to build their own factory. Some of them (like Asus and HMD) has collaboration with local company who has factory, the contract value would be counted to this so-called TKDN.
Meanwhile device with no 4G/5G does not included in this schema, that's why new Ipad (Wifi only version) and Macbook are still sold legally in Indonesia.