Perspectives on Government Engagement in Indonesia
Analysis and commentary from Nusantara Advisory Group on regulatory, institutional and cross-border matters in Indonesia.
Analysis and commentary from Nusantara Advisory Group on regulatory, institutional and cross-border matters in Indonesia.
IA-CEPA gives Australian investors treaty-level ownership certainty, and Katalis 2.0 gives them a channel into Indonesian government thinking. Neither replaces the licensing, structuring and partner work that decides the timetable.
The transaction closes long before the relationship is settled, and what happens afterwards usually decides whether the mandate was worth it.
Government interface is often mistaken for introductions. In practice it is the discipline of aligning institutional positions before a decision is required.
Approval in Indonesia is rarely a single decision. It is a sequence of institutional positions, and the sequence matters as much as the outcome.