Indonesia SEZ Business Forum 2025 Strengthens Global Investment Appeal of 25 Special Economic Zones
JAKARTA – The National Council for Special Economic Zones (SEZ) hosted the Indonesia SEZ Business Forum 2025 on Tuesday in Jakarta as part of a strategic national effort to enhance the global competitiveness of Indonesia’s 25 SEZs and attract international investment. The forum recorded strong…
Indonesia and the Duopoly Pattern: From Telecommunications and E-Commerce to Offline Distribution
JAKARTA, Rafi Fadhilah — Indonesia is increasingly showing a market concentration pattern that gravitates toward two dominant players across multiple sectors. Some industries have already formed explicit duopolies, while others are heading toward “tight oligopolies” with similar competitive effects. This trend matters because it influences…
InvestorTrust Capital Market Forum 2025: Technology, India Indonesia Integration, and the Fast Track to a Future Ready Capital Market
JAKARTA — The InvestorTrust Capital Market Forum 2025 made one message clear. The future of Indonesia’s capital market will be shaped by three forces: technology, regional integration, and broader investor participation. The forum brought together Indonesian government officials, regulators, stock exchange leaders, Indian technology experts,…
Sachin Gopalan Highlights Role of Chinese Innovation and ASEAN Growth at MarkPlus Conference 2024
Jakarta, December 5, 2024 — At the MarkPlus, Corp. Conference 2024 (December 4–5), Sachin V. Gopalan, Chairman of the ASEAN Economic Forum and Founder of the Indonesia Economic Forum (IEF Jakarta), emphasized the vital contribution of Chinese businesses in shaping global development, while positioning ASEAN…
A Re-Ordering of the Global Trade and Economic Order. Trump’s 32% Tariff on Indonesia Creates New Opportunities
by Sachin V Gopalan & Shoeb Kagda Founders, Indonesia Economic Forum As global capital markets reel and the global trade regime is upended, governments across the world are scrambling to respond and react. China has already responded by announcing a 34% tariff on all US…
The Future of Work
By Jacob Morgan The work as we know is dead and the only way forward is to challenge convention around how we work, how we lead, and how we build our companies. Employees are evolving. Employees which were once thought of expendable cogs are the…
Indonesia Foreign Exchange Reserve Over The Last 12 Months (US$ Million)
Despite multiple pressures on the macroeconomic environment due to the COVID pandemic -19, Bank Indonesia (BI) has for the past four successive months boosted the level of Indonesia’s foreign reserves to US$138.8 billion as of late February, enough for financing 10 months of imports and…
Global Subscription Video on Demand Forecast between 2020-2025 (in Million)
Digital TV Research estimated global SVOD will increase by 81% to 1.16 billion in 2025. The total will climb by 170 million in 2020 alone. Disney+ will be the biggest winner by adding 176 million subscribers between 2020 and 2025 to take its total to…
Expected Shape of The Global Economic Recovery
Reuters conducted polls on April 1-23, 2020. From 165 economists responded, 56% of it expected U-shaped recovery, while the remaining 20% expected V-shaped recovery, 15% expected ✓ -shaped recovery, 5% expected W-shaped recovery and 4% expected L-shaped recovery.
Global Healthcare ECM Activity YTD as April 22, 2020
Refinitiv launched Healthcare ECM Trend YTD as April 22, 2020. Global Healthcare ECM offerings raised US$23.6 billion, up 30.1% from a year ago, while Healthcare IPO proceeds grew 46.4% y-o-y to US$4.6 billion worldwide. US dominates with 44.5% market share of the global healthcare ECM…