Indonesia’s New Capital Struggles To Convince Investors It Is Here To Stay; Hinges On Election
February 2nd, 2024
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a report on progress related to Indonesia’s new capital, Nusantara, which is struggling to convince investors it is here to stay: A great chrome and glass building in the shape of a winged bird rises half-built from the jungles of Borneo. Two years ago, this was a sprawling eucalyptus plantation, but in […]
Read more »Indonesia and Ghana: Beneficiaries of New World Bank $100M Plastic Credits Bond
January 30th, 2024
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on an innovative new bond to combat waste, with repayments partially determined by sale of plastic and carbon offset credits: The World Bank and Citi have launched a $100mn bond to combat waste, with repayments partly determined by the sale of plastic and carbon offset credits. The bond, […]
Read more »Yamaha Taps School Music To Score Growth in India, Southeast Asia
January 19th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Yamaha efforts to grow sales in emerging markets as Japan sales slide: For one New Delhi fifth grader shy of singing, a white, plastic recorder gifted by Japan’s Yamaha Corp. has been a potentially career-defining revelation. “I feel I’m better at playing the recorder and may even teach it […]
Read more »China’s BYD to Build Electric Vehicle Plant in Indonesia
January 18th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on BYD’s plans to invest $1.3bn in its sixth overseas factory as it aims to expand global footprint: BYD is to invest $1.3bn in an electric vehicle factory in Indonesia, after the Chinese carmaker unveiled three new battery models for sale with the aim of becoming Indonesia’s biggest […]
Read more »How the UAE is Making a Splash in Indonesia’s Clean Energy Sector
January 18th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a look at how Masdar’s willingness to work within the constraints of the country’s political economy offers important lessons for the U.S.-backed Just Energy Transition Partnership: In November of last year, Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo officially inaugurated the Cirata solar farm in West Java. Built on a reservoir using thousands of floating photovoltaic […]
Read more »‘Silicon Bali’: Asia’s Paradise for Sustainability Startups?
January 10th, 2024
Via Eco Business, a look at how Indonesia – as it recovers from a pandemic-induced slump – is trying to diversify its economy beyond tourism and attract green business: The lifting of Covid-19 restrictions in June 2023 brought a tsunami of visitors back to Bali, Indonesia’s “island of the Gods”. Many of the more than 4 million foreign visitors […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.