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View all search resultsSupreme Court rejects Google's final appeal in payment system case
Google's final challenge against the KPPU's anti-monopoly ruling last year ended in failure on Tuesday, when the Supreme Court issued a decision to uphold the competition watchdog’s US$12 million fine and related orders against the mandated the use of its payment system for local developers.
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A man walks past Google’s iconic logo sign on June 27, 2022, at the United States tech giant’s Bay View campus in Mountain View, California. (AFP/Noah Berger)
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he Supreme Court has struck down a final appeal by Alphabet Inc.’s Google in a decision published on its website on March 10, which upholds a prior ruling by the Business Competition Supervisory Commission (KPPU) citing monopolistic practices related to Google Play Billing.
The KPPU said the court’s decision upheld its January 2025 ruling, which fined the United States tech giant Rp 202.5 billion (US$12 million) for abusing its dominant position in the mobile app distribution market by mandating the use of Google Play Billing for in-app purchases.
“With this decision, Google must implement the entirety of the KPPU’s ruling, including the fine and the required policy adjustments,” the competition regulator's spokesperson Deswin Nur said in a statement on Friday.
The commission ruled last year that the requirement for developers to use Google's proprietary payment system breached Law No. 5/1999 on competition, as it restricted market and technological developments in Southeast Asia’s largest economy with a population of 280 million.
In addition, the KPPU ordered Google to stop mandating the use of its billing system for transactions on its digital distribution platform Play Store and to allow developers to join its user choice billing (UCB) program, which permits the use of alternative payment systems. The commission also ordered Google to offer reduced service fees of at least 5 percent for one year after its ruling took effect.
Developers are required to use Google Play Billing for in-app digital products and services they offer via Play Store, according to the tech company’s website.
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