Indonesia’s Risky Gamble With Sea Sand Exports
February 14th, 2025
Via Dialogue Earth, a look at Indonesia’s risky decision to restart sea sand exports to neighboring countries: Unregulated sand dredging in the early 2000s pushed Nipah to the brink of submersion, eroding its shores and threatening its existence. This small Indonesian island near Singapore, measuring just 0.62 hectares at high tide and 60 hectares at […]
Read more »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 »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 »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 »Apple To Offer Indonesia $1B in Investment
December 3rd, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a report that Apple plans to offer Indonesia $1bn in investment to end the country’s iPhone 16 sales ban: Indonesian Minister of Investment Rosan Roeslani has said tech giant Apple has expressed an intention to invest $1 billion in the country, 10 times the amount it offered last month, in a bid […]
Read more »Why Joining BRICS+ Is Not In Indonesia’s Interests
November 26th, 2024
Via The Interpreter, commentary on why joining BRICS+ is not in Indonesia’s interests: Indonesia’s decision to join BRICS+ solely based on perceived economic opportunities is highly imprudent. Although the initiative offers economic advantages, Indonesia already participates in robust platforms such as the G20 and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). It has formidable economic ties […]
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.