Category: Investment Sectors

  • Beyond Tourism:  The Blue Economy in Indonesia – Marine and Fisheries Investment

    Beyond Tourism: The Blue Economy in Indonesia – Marine and Fisheries Investment

    Indonesia is the world’s second largest aquaculture producer, with 17,504 islands and 6.4 million square kilometres of sea area. The KKP has set a marine and fisheries sector investment target of IDR 14.47 trillion for 2026, as part of a five-year programme targeting IDR 79.21 trillion by 2029. Government Regulation 78 of 2019 provides a… READ MORE →

  • Beyond Beach Clubs:  Creative Production, Events, and Destination Experiences as Foreign Investment in Indonesia

    Beyond Beach Clubs: Creative Production, Events, and Destination Experiences as Foreign Investment in Indonesia

    Indonesia’s creative economy became a named licensing sector under Government Regulation 28 of 2025, for the first time placing event production, destination experiences, film and music production, performing arts, and creative education within a defined regulatory framework with its own licensing treatment and supervisory authority. For a foreign investor, this means the KBLI 2025 classification… READ MORE →

  • Beyond Bali: Infrastructure and Built-Environment Services as Foreign Investment in Indonesia

    Beyond Bali: Infrastructure and Built-Environment Services as Foreign Investment in Indonesia

    Indonesia’s Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah Nasional 2025 to 2029 requires IDR 47,587.3 trillion in infrastructure investment. The Ministry of Public Works budget was cut 73 per cent in 2025. The gap between what the state needs and what it can fund is the commercial context in which built-environment services in Indonesia operate. This article examines… READ MORE →

  • Beyond Villas: Trade and Distribution in Bali

    Beyond Villas: Trade and Distribution in Bali

    Foreign investment in Bali has long concentrated on real estate and accommodation. This article examines trade and distribution in Bali as a structurally different route into the same commercial demand environment, covering the legal framework, the enterprise models available to foreign investors, and the compliance requirements that determine whether a trading company in Indonesia operates… READ MORE →

  • Beyond Tourism:  Bali Needs Waste Solutions

    Beyond Tourism: Bali Needs Waste Solutions

    Why imported systems often fail, and where foreign investors can still create value Bali’s waste emergency is visible in overflowing disposal sites, mixed roadside waste, pressure on local collection routes, and the growing public focus on landfill capacity. In April 2026, Indonesia’s Environment Minister said open dumping across the country must end by July 2026,… READ MORE →

  • Bali 2036: Growth Alone Will Not Protect Your Business

    Bali 2036: Growth Alone Will Not Protect Your Business

    Bali is still growing, though growth alone does not make a business durable. This article examines what founders need to test before capital is committed, including structure, feasibility, governance, uneven trading conditions, and whether the venture still makes sense under closer review. READ MORE →

  • Ask, Listen, Design, Act: The TraceWorthy Method for Building Capability and Systems

    Ask, Listen, Design, Act: The TraceWorthy Method for Building Capability and Systems

    The ask listen design act framework turns real business questions into operational systems. This article explains how human-centred consulting method, cross discipline advisory, and business systems design combine into capability building for founders through co-design workshops and structured implementation. READ MORE →

  • Human Centred Consulting in Practice

    Human Centred Consulting in Practice

    Inside TraceWorthy’s Cross Functional Training Culture On a Thursday morning in Bali, the TraceWorthy whiteboard fills with Mirna Pratiwi Mangitung’s tax diagrams. She sketches the route of income from a client company to government accounts and into personal bank records. The legal team ask questions and link each line on the board to live client… READ MORE →

  • Founder Bottleneck: One Chair, Many Hats

    Founder Bottleneck: One Chair, Many Hats

    I lead TraceWorthy, manage a client load, and act as board proxy and majority shareholder. The work asks for presence, judgement, and steady records. Relief arrives when one stream moves to a trusted team, one approval shifts to a service lead with a threshold, and one set of time blocks survives the week. The firm… READ MORE →

  • Sanur Special Economic Zone

    Sanur Special Economic Zone

    Where the Sanur Special Economic Zone meets Bali International Hospital: opportunities from supportive cancer care to patient hotels, designed for founders ready to build in Bali. READ MORE →

  • Human-Centred, Design-Led Business Systems

    Human-Centred, Design-Led Business Systems

    Design-led business systems treat decision-making as an operational discipline. This article sets out staged work: early field sampling, feasibility screens, table-top trials, a contained pilot, and load tests, followed by wave rollout with instrumentation. Structural alignment links authority, reporting, contracts, and handovers to the way work actually runs, producing measurable reliability. TraceWorthy operates inside client… READ MORE →

  • BPOM in Practice

    BPOM in Practice

    Labels do not carry opinions. They carry evidence. This feature follows how launches derail when BPOM registration is treated as paperwork, and shows how TraceWorthy sequences the BPOM dossier, BPOM label requirements, and holder model so BPOM approval lands on time. READ MORE →