Citizens can now purchase the phone 16 once more thanks to the restrictions being lifted.

Ultimately, the entire phone 1 line can be purchased in Indonesia once more.
After months of negotiations and next week of bureaucracy, Apple is now once more permitted to market the phone 16 range in Indonesia, including selling the phone 16e there for the first day. The Indonesian authorities has publicly agreed to stop its iPhone 16 sales ban on March 7, 2025. However, it has taken until April 11 for Apple to obtain the numerous country-specific governmental approvals necessary to reinstate the devices. The Indonesian Apple Store website only addresses the products as attainable and makes no mention of them ever being banned. However, Greg Joswiak, Senior Vice President Worldwide Marketing, took to Twitter to express his gratitude for the event. 13, The moratorium became effective in October 2024, and the government’s” difficult” agreements have lasted for six weeks. The sales ban was supposedly brought on by Apple because it was breaking Indonesia’s local content quota, which mandates that 35 % to 40 % of components be sourced locally. In reality, Apple hadn’t ever met that limit, and the business appeared to be permitted to invest in Indonesia in various ways. Apple therefore undoubtedly shot itself in the feet because it had promised$ 109.6 million in expense but just spent$ 94.53 million. &# 13, Following Indonesia’s strictening its local content cap, Apple tried to give it more money for these additional assets, such as designer training. However, it offered$ 10 million, which wouldn’t have even surpassed Apple’s original commitment. Indonesia rejected that, rejected$ 100 million, and then accepted a$ 1 billion offer, despite simultaneously claiming that was insufficient to meet the local content quota. However, that made sense because Apple’s billion-dollar present was to manufacture AirTags directly, and AirTags are not an iPhone feature. No further information about the results of following offers and negotiations has been made public, and it’s not currently entirely distinct whether Apple may create AirTags in Indonesia. According to the country’s news agency Antara, Apple has exceeded the production quota, but also that this was attributable to Air Tags ‘ production. &# 13;Neither Apple nor the Indonesian government are now likely to reveal how the ban was ultimately resolved. However, it appears that Apple started to rebel against the nation’s growing needs because there has only been a hint that it has thought about producing iPhones there. 

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