Apple Banned From Selling iPhone 16 in Indonesia

Indonesia has banned sales of Apple's iPhone 16, citing the tech giant's failure to meet local investment requirements, the country's Ministry of Industry said. The ministry said Apple's local unit has not fulfilled the mandatory 40% local content threshold for smartphones, making imported iPhone 16 units illegal for sale in Southeast Asia's largest economy.

About 9,000 iPhone 16 devices have entered Indonesia through passenger luggage since last month's launch. "These phones entered legally, but will be illegal if traded," the ministry said. Apple has invested 1.48 trillion rupiah ($108 million) of its 1.71 trillion rupiah commitment in Indonesia. The company operates four developer academies but no manufacturing facilities in the country, despite government pressure to expand its presence.

Every country it's own manufactering?

[Teun]

Should every country have the right to it's own manufacturing?
I know Indonesia is a large country but even though I don't like Apple's closed garden they do make hi tech equipment.
And I can't imagine they would subscribe to several countries like Indonesia demanding their own manufacturing, even the USofA doesn't easily get it.

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[Firethorn]

Right to own manufacturing, or right to demand local manufacturing?

Thinking on this it could be seen as similar to US demands, via tariff and subsidy, that EVs be made in country. Sort of, exceptions apply, I'm summarizing.

40% seems to be a pretty big number. Is it component count, by mass, value, volume, or what?
Components, cellphones have a case, display, battery, mainboard with connectors, and various chips.

They are all relatively tiny and very subject to centralized manufacturing being much more effic

We should apply this to everything

[MeNeXT]

Every country should apply this rule to every product and service... no exceptions. What could go wrong? /s

All manufacturers? The future?

[uffe_nordholm]

If this applies to all manufacturers of communications equipment, I can't see how Indonesia would avoid collapsing back to the stone age, communication wise. If this law applies to eg Samsung also (I see no reason to believe it doesn't) then also Samsung devices would be made illegal, unless Samsung can find some way of making 40% of the phone in Indonesia. Soon no modern communication devices would be legal, because no manufacturer can find a reasonable way to make 40% of the devices in Indonesia. So the

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[Teun]

Talking about other countries following this (40%) rule, once you hit 2.5 countries you've already reached a 100%.
Of course this would imply there would be no double manufacturing involved but we all know this would seriously increase the price for all countries involved.