This is all very confusing to me. The reasoning is it is unhealthy competition for their local businesses with this discount Chinese stuff. Okay that makes sense at some level of government is tasked with ensuring the stability of their economy. What I'm struggling with is why their solution to this is to block Temu. It seems to me the better solution would be to place a tariff onto these goods. This could provide the competition balance and income.
The other reason that blows my mind, having visited Indonesia a great many times, is the idea that Temu goods are not up to Indonesian quality standards. They seemingly said that with a completely straight face totally serious in what they were saying. Indonesian goods that are made for export to first world countries do generally have a higher quality standard than Chinese goods, but that's only because they are specifically made for export and they are overseen by companies from those first world companies to ensure the quality is there. Indonesian goods made for local use are on par with Chinese goods. It is all disposable trash.
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