Indonesia asks Apple, Google to block China’s Temu to protect small merchants

Indonesia has called upon Alphabet’s Google and Apple to remove the Chinese fast-fashion e-commerce platform Temu from their respective app stores in the country. The government aims to prevent the app from being downloaded by Indonesian consumers.
Reuters:
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The move was intended to pre-emptively protect the country’s small and medium-sized businesses against cheap products being offered by PDD Holdings’ Temu, communications minister Budi Arie Setiadi told Reuters, even though authorities have not found any transactions yet by its residents on the platform.
Temu’s business model, which connects consumers directly with factories in China in order to significantly reduce prices, is “unhealthy competition,” Budi said. “We’re not here to protect e-commerce, but we protect small and medium enterprises. There are millions we must protect,” the minister said.
Temu can still be downloaded in app stores in Indonesia.

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MacDailyNews Take: How about blocking Temu because it’s a CCP data mining scam?

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