May 25, 2026 | Law, Market
The public battle surrounding former venture capital executive Nicko Widjaja is no longer centered inside a courtroom. It has evolved into something far larger: a coordinated narrative war across Indonesia’s startup ecosystem. What stands out is not merely the volume...
May 25, 2026 | Market, Politics
Beyond its goal of improving nutritional outcomes, the MBG program was also expected to boost regional economies by involving MSMEs and local suppliers. However, behind this ambitious vision, the National Corruption Prevention Strategy (Stranas PK) team has identified...
May 25, 2026 | Commodities, Market
Indonesia is the largest exporter of palm oil and thermal coal, no doubt. President Prabowo Subianto expects Indonesia as price maker for both commodities upon seeing ‘success’ in ‘controlling’ global nickel price. People close to Prabowo believe that Indonesia’s...
May 22, 2026 | Commodities, Market
President Prabowo Subianto presented a data processed from UN Comtrade to come up with a conclusion: Indonesia has long been robbed by its exporters, and, accordingly, shall be stopped with centralization of export through PT Danantara Sejahtera Indonesia (DSI). What...
May 22, 2026 | Commodities, Law
The arrest of businessman Sudianto alias Aseng, the beneficial owner of PT Quality Sukses Sejahtera (QSS), is not merely another mining corruption case. It exposes a deeper problem that Indonesia has never fully solved: the political economy of regional mining...
