, Columnist
A Digital Policy With Teeth
The nation's pay-to-play digital policy combines nationalism with pragmatism.
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Nationalism minus chauvinism. That's how Indonesia wants to deal with FANG.
Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google -- the four horsemen of the digital economy -- will get to play freely in the archipelago's 260-million-strong consumer market, according to Communications and Information Technology Minister Rudiantara. The minister, who uses only one name, has no airy-fairy notions about national digital champions who'll help keep Indonesian money at home.