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Domestic credit card
Visa and Mastercard are furious with Bank Indonesia’s plan to introduce a domestic credit card system following President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo’s calling for the use of homegrown cards to boost the country’s independence in financial transactions. Details yet to be provided, but with the growing mobile wallets in in-store payments, the plan deserved attention.
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Domestic credit card
Visa and Mastercard are furious with Bank Indonesia’s plan to introduce a domestic credit card system following President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo’s calling for the use of homegrown cards to boost the country’s independence in financial transactions. Details yet to be provided, but with the growing mobile wallets in in-store payments, the plan deserved attention.
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