A 20 Billion Dollar Ambition in a Traumatic Market

Yopie Hidayat, Contributor

Tempo

February 1, 2021

THE government is hanging their hopes high on the Indonesian Investment Authority (LPI). This new agency will be Indonesia’s trump card to attract investment from abroad. President Joko Widodo has set a truly ambitious target for it: US$20 billion in two months.

To convince investors around the globe that this authority is a serious business, the government has put in a seed money amounting US$5 billion. The LPI will ma

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