Indonesia Makes $1B Health Care Bet To Keep Wealthy Patients At Home
February 14th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at Indonesia’s plan to invest in health care: A grand new hospital building rises against the backdrop of the idyllic beach in Sanur in southeast Bali. Spreading across 50,000 sq. meters, Bali International Hospital is set to partially open its doors in April. It has been designed with hotel-like aesthetics, […]
Read more »Indonesia, Home To World’s Largest Nickel Reserves, Struggles To Achieve Its EV Dreams
February 3rd, 2025
Via Rest of World, a report on the role of China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries that are impacting Indonesia’s EV dreams: Indonesia has set a target to become one of the world leaders in EV battery production by 2027. It opened Southeast Asia’s first EV battery facility last July, a […]
Read more »Qatar Bets On Affordable Housing in India, Indonesia
January 20th, 2025
Via Semafor, an article on Qatar’s investment interest in affordable housing: Gulf real estate investments usually revolve around prime properties in cosmopolitan cities, but Qatar’s latest deals are a bit downmarket. The Qatar Investment Authority, Doha’s sovereign wealth fund, has joined private equity firm Warburg Pincus and other investors to buy a $141 million stake in […]
Read more »Indonesia’s EV Bet: Economic Nationalists Making A Reckless Bet
January 11th, 2025
Via The Economist, commentary on Indonesia’s EV bet: Nothing emboldens politicians like defying the world’s advice and being proved right. Such is the case in Indonesia. In 2014 the country moved to ban exports of unprocessed ores. The idea was to force companies that crave its abundant minerals to refine them inside the country, capturing valuable investment […]
Read more »Indonesia Nearly Has A Monopoly On Nickel. What Next?
January 10th, 2025
Via The Economist, an article on Indonesia’s nickel sector and desire to creat e an electric car supply chain: In 1996 Tommy Suharto, the youngest son of Indonesia’s dictator, set out to build the Timor, a national car. The plan was to import models manufactured by Kia Motors, a South Korean carmaker, and rebrand them. […]
Read more »Fighting for a Share of a $1 Trillion Market in Borneo’s Jungle
January 8th, 2025
Via Bloomberg, a look at how a range of actors from global leaders to Wall Street are betting the struggle toward net-zero targets will reignite the troubled trade in carbon offsets: From a five-storey high wooden watchtower, workers at one of the world’s largest carbon offsets projects can see in all directions: across grasslands studded […]
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.