An Indonesian minister reports that Apple will now build a manufacturing plant in the country to make iPhone components, and presumably thereby get the iPhone 16 ban lifted.
Previously on Indonesia vs Apple… Apple used to get around the country’s requirement that 40% of the components in phones must be made locally. That’s not a practical requirement for any country, and the government seemed to know it, because it allowed Apple to qualify to sell iPhones there by launching developer centers instead.
According to Reuters, though, the country’s now six-week-old ban on sales of the iPhone 16, may be be resolved by fulfilling that 40% component requirement. Rosan Roeslan, the Indonesian investment minister who made the claim about Apple building a new plant, also said the 40% requirement would be increased.
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