Indonesia orders Apple, Google to take down Chinese bargain app Temu

Indonesia's government last week ordered Apple and Google to remove Chinese e-commerce app Temu from their app stores. A government announcement quotes minister of communication and information Budi Arie Setiadi explaining that Temu has not registered to operate in Indonesia. He's also concerned about competition issues. " …

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Give credit where its due

ISRO bragged it achieved the goal by "properly designing [a] passivation sequence" that lowered PS4's orbit. -- Good! It appears they've been taking Linus Torvald's advice to heart, said advice as recently reported on by El Reg: "Linus Torvalds declares war on the passive voice"

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How sensible

"Based on experience in several countries, the application from China is detrimental to local MSMEs as well as consumers. The quality of products sold by Temu also does not meet quality standards, thus harming consumers or buyers."

Pity we prevent ourselves doing the same!

[munnoch]

Re: How sensible

Blame the Universal Postal Union which charges incredibly low rates for handling packages China ships to other countries as it is considered to be a "developing" country.

At one point it was less than a penny for CN to UK, hence the proliferation of ebay and amazon sellers who could charge you a pound for some random piece of tat and somehow still make money sending it to you. Not sure what it is currently as nothing seems to be publicly available -- thanks UN.

The changes to force platform operators to collect VAT reined in some of that. Not sure how Temu/Shien get away with not doing that, probably by simply ignoring the rules.

Solution is to reset postage rates to properly commercial levels and the whole house of cards will collapse.