Apple is forced to invest 44 million dollars to be able to sell the iPhone in Indonesia

For some time to be a part, the policies of some governments are taking advantage of some aspects of telecommunications that until now had been alien to them. On the one hand we find Russia and China, countries that have launched a new law that obliges internet service providers to store their users' data on local servers, in order to access in a simpler way, we find no other justification. On the other hand, we find countries such as India or Indonesia, which oblige smartphone manufacturers to ensure that 30% of the products sold by the company have been manufactured in the country.

For most manufacturers this is not a problem, because they do not establish their own stores, but Apple does and none of its products are manufactured in those countries. In India it has gotten a postponement after investing in an R&D center and an application accelerator which will soon open its doors in India. In Indonesia, however, Apple's problem in being able to sell the iPhone is that as of January 1, 30% of the components, whether software or hardware, must have been designed or manufactured in the country.

But as in India, there is the investment route. The Cupertino-based company has just signed an agreement with the Indonesian government to build an R&D center in the country over the next three years. a center that will cost approximately 44 million dollars and that opens the doors to the company in order to calmly begin to sell the iPhone and other products, products that are manufactured entirely in China. Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world with 260 million inhabitants, after China, India and the United States.