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WeChat has become China's most popular mobile social media platform. (AFP/File photo)
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witching firm PT Alto Halodigital International president director Rudy Ramli has said the company found three types of alleged illegal payments made in Chinese yuan among Chinese tourists visiting Bali, Indonesia’s main tourist resort.
“To give an example, a trader with a Chinese national sells certain goods in Bali. The trader has a transaction with a Chinese tourist. Then they make a transaction through WeChat because they are accustomed to doing so,” Rudy said as quoted by kontan.co.id.
Rudy estimated that 20 percent of transactions between merchants and Chinese tourists in Bali used the rupiah, while the remaining 80 percent still used the yuan.
Therefore, he welcomed the plan of the Bali administration to carry out raids against merchants that accepted illegal yuan payments through WeChat.
According to Rudy, three types of illegal transactions were recorded: peer-to-peer transactions using the yuan, transactions through Union Pay with IDC machines that use Chinese wifi and yuan transactions using vouchers through the Dian Ping application. (bbn)
