Indonesia is in tense negotiations with Apple. The government is telling the tech giant that if it wants to sell gadgets to the country’s 200 million smartphone users, it needs to build more factories in Indonesia. For now, company officials are playing hardball: banning sales of the latest iPhone. As The World’s Patrick Winn reports, some Indonesians go to extreme measures to get one anyway.
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