{"id":14747,"date":"2025-01-12T18:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/iphone-16-sales-ban-remains-in-indonesia-officials-reject-offers\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T21:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T20:18:50","slug":"iphone-16-sales-ban-remains-in-indonesia-officials-reject-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/iphone-16-sales-ban-remains-in-indonesia-officials-reject-offers\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 16 sales ban remains in Indonesia; officials reject offers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, Indonesia banned the sale of the iPhone 16 series, Apple Watch Series 10, and other products because Apple failed to comply with local regulations. Authorities require that products sold in the country include at least 40% of \u201cdomestic content.\u201d In a recent development, Indonesia upholds the iPhone 16 sales ban because Apple still fails to meet the requirements.<br \/>\nIndonesia upholds iPhone 16 sales ban after rejecting $1 billion investment offer<br \/>\nApparently, Apple\u2019s strategy to try to comply with local laws did not meet the authorities\u2019 expectations. Rosan Roeslani, Indonesia\u2019s investment minister, said this week that Apple planned to invest up to $1 billion to set up factories for AirTag devices on Batam Island. The new factories would be responsible for 65% of the global supply of the product.<br \/>\nAlthough the offer seems quite generous, local authorities were expecting something different. Agus Gumiwang, Indonesia\u2019s industry minister, said that an AirTag \u201cis an accessory, not a part or component of gadgets.\u201d Basically, local regulation stipulates that only hardware and software components for products count. AirTags are products in themselves, so their manufacturing does not affect the iPhone 16 or other banned devices.<br \/>\n\u201cUntil this afternoon, the ministry doesn\u2019t have any reason to issue the domestic component level certificate for Apple products, especially iPhone 16,\u201d Gumiwang said. Meetings between government officials and Apple executives have not yielded any results. Authorities offered a counterproposal to Apple, but more specific details are not known. However, the Cupertino giant did not immediately respond to it. This suggests that Apple was not too keen on the conditions.<br \/>\nIn November of last year, Apple offered to invest an extra $100 million in the country to get the certification. However, this proposal was not enough for Indonesian officials either.<br \/>\nGoogle Pixel phones sales are also banned in the country<br \/>\nIndonesia is not among the main markets for iPhones worldwide. Only time will tell if Apple continues to try to obtain the license to sell the iPhone 16 series. Currently, the sale of Google Pixel devices is also banned in the country due to the same \u201clocal tech use\u201d requirement. It seems that the big companies considered the country\u2019s requirements a bit excessive.<br \/>\nThe post iPhone 16 sales ban remains in Indonesia; officials reject offers appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Apple-iPhone-16-Pro-AM-AH-20.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last October, Indonesia banned the sale of the iPhone 16 series, Apple Watch Series 10, and other products because Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":14748,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14749,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14747\/revisions\/14749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}