Tag: Indonesia
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google is expected to reach a tax settlement with the Indonesian government in the next few weeks, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Under the proposed settlement, Google will pay back taxes and fines, and the search giant will have to agree to a new calculation of profits made […]
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia plans to pursue Alphabet Inc’s Google for five years of back taxes, and the search giant could face a bill of more than $400 million for 2015 alone if it is found to have avoided payments, a senior tax official said. Muhammad Haniv, head of the tax office’s special cases branch, […]
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Avid players of smash-hit mobile phone game Pokemon GO in Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, are not letting religious decrees or security warnings get in the way of their mission to catch their next cartoon creature. Nintendo’s augmented reality app, in which players walk around real-life places to hunt […]
SINGAPORE/JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian online retailer Bilna spent two years looking for a chief technology officer before it finally discovered Ridy Lie, who had returned home after eight years with Amazon in the United States. Until Lie, the company had struggled to find someone who could “take us to the next level,” said Eka Himawan, […]
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Global Internet-based firms could have their services blocked in Indonesia if they do not obtain “permanent establishment” status in the country and pay Indonesian tax, government officials said on Monday. Finance Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro told reporters all Internet-based services must have a local presence in the form of a representative office or […]
(Reuters) – Indonesia has long been the Twitter capital of the world, but rival apps and rancorous political debate are driving users away, illustrating the challenges the microblogging service faces even in markets once considered strongholds. While Twitter doesn’t break down country figures, Global Web Index data shows Indonesia remains joint first with Mexico in […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc, the new holding company for Google, has teamed up with three Indonesian telecommunications companies to expand Internet access in that country using solar-powered balloons. Alphabet officials, including co-founder Sergey Brin, and representatives from Indonesian companies Telkomsel, XL Axiata Tbk PT and Indosat Tbk PT signed an agreement Wednesday […]
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Frustrated Indonesians are using a new mobile app to give their sleepy bureaucrats a wake-up call, demanding immediate fixes for persistently shoddy public services in the capital of the world’s fourth-most populous country. President Joko Widodo has grown exasperated with Indonesia’s bureaucrats over delays to road and port projects crucial to reviving […]
JAKARTA (Reuters) – When Polytron became the first Indonesian company to produce 4G-capable smartphones last year, it changed the ‘Manufactured in China’ inscription on its handsets to ‘Made in Kudus,’ a town in Central Java. Polytron relocated production from China to comply with ‘local-content’ rules introduced in 2012. The regulations have raised concerns about higher […]
JAKARTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is pressing Indonesia to relax local-content rules it believes will handicap efforts of tech firms such as Apple to expand into one of the world’s last big markets where demand for high-end smartphone has yet to really take off. The regulation, which would come into force on Jan. 1, […]
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