Indonesia has followed the playbook successfully implemented by India: demanding that Apple bring some of its manufacturing business to the country in order to be allowed to freely sell its products there. In India’s case, Apple was not allowed to open online and physical retail stores in the country until it established significant iPhone assembly operations there. Partly in response to this, India is now Apple’s second-largest manufacturing center after China. Apple has responded to an iPhone 16 ban in Indonesia by offering a ten-fold boost to its manufacturing investments in the country from $10M to $100M. Are countries starting to wake up by demanding for investment on their soil ?
