Xignature Strengthens Its Commitment to Indonesia’s Fintech Ecosystem at AFTECH Annual General Meeting & Jakarta Fintech Connect 2026

JAKARTA — Xignature participated as an official sponsor and exhibitor at the AFTECH Annual General Meeting (RUA) 2026 and Jakarta Fintech Connect 2026, held on May 12–13, 2026, in the SCBD area, Jakarta. This participation reflects Xignature’s…

Indonesia’s Nickel Pivot: Why 2026 Output Cuts Signal a Maturing Downstreaming Era

For five years, the story of Indonesian nickel was a story of acceleration. Since banning raw ore exports in 2020, the country has used its resource leverage to force the metal's value chain onshore, lifting its share of global mine supply from…

Indonesia’s Energy Transition at a Crossroads: Inside the RUPTL 2025–2034

Indonesia enters 2026 holding two facts that sit uneasily together. The first is ambition: a new Electricity Supply Business Plan (RUPTL 2025–2034) that calls for 42.6 GW of new renewable capacity over the decade. The second is the starting…

Southeast Asia’s $300 Billion Digital Economy Enters the ‘AI Reality’

When Google, Temasek, and Bain & Company launched their first e-Conomy SEA report a decade ago, a $200 billion regional digital economy by 2025 was considered an aggressive call. The 2025 edition — the tenth — confirms the region cleared…

The Return of the Megadeal: Decoding the 2026 M&A Rebound

After several muted years, global mergers and acquisitions came roaring back in 2025. Deal value rose 43% to $4.7 trillion, up from $3.3 trillion a year earlier and roughly 20% above the ten-year average of $3.9 trillion, according to McKinsey's…

Statecraft and Capital: How Danantara Is Rewiring Indonesia’s Growth Model

In February 2025, President Prabowo Subianto launched Daya Anagata Nusantara — Danantara — and instantly created one of the world's largest sovereign investment vehicles. By consolidating the country's biggest state-owned enterprises, the…

The Sogo Shosha Playbook: Lessons from Buffett’s $30 Billion Bet on Japan’s Trading Houses

In 2020, Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed stakes in Japan's five great trading houses — Itochu, Marubeni, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, and Sumitomo. The market treated it as a curiosity. Half a decade later, it looks like one of Berkshire's…

The New Resource Geopolitics: Critical Minerals, Chips, and the Scramble for Supply-Chain Resilience

The materials that make modern technology possible — gallium for chips, rare earths for magnets, cobalt and lithium for batteries — have become some of the most contested assets in geopolitics. What was once a quiet corner of industrial…

Geothermal’s Quiet Advantage: Indonesia’s Underused Answer to the Baseload Problem

Most energy-transition coverage gravitates to solar panels and wind turbines. They are cheap, fast to build, and increasingly cheaper than new fossil generation. But they share a weakness that matters enormously for a coal-dependent grid: they…

The Data-Center Land Rush: How AI Demand Is Reshaping Southeast Asia’s Digital Backbone

Behind every AI model and every cloud application sits a physical reality: racks of servers in vast, power-hungry buildings. As Southeast Asia's digital economy crossed $300 billion in 2025 and entered its self-described "AI reality," the constraint…