Category: Sustainable and Ethical Investment
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Ethical Investment in Bali: Opportunities, Standards and How to Start
Ethical investment in Bali directs capital into businesses whose returns come with real environmental and social results, and whose records support the claim. This is what the term means here, the sectors and rules that shape it, the obstacles, and the steps to begin. READ MORE →
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What Is a Family Office, and Can a Foreign Family Run One from Bali?
A plain guide to the family office for a foreign family: what it is, single versus multi versus embedded, what it costs and when a family needs one, the governance and succession core, and what Indonesian law requires in Bali, from the PT PMA and the Bali Province rules to immigration, land, and the PFII. READ MORE →
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The Hidden Price of Idle Cash and Slow-Paying Customers
A profitable business can still run short of cash. The money is usually your own, kept idle or tied up. See what it costs and what it could earn. READ MORE →
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Company Reserve Funds: How Much to Set Aside and Where to Keep It
Profit is an accounting result and cash is what is available in the bank account. Reserve funds close the gap. A framework for sizing and separating the funds an Indonesian company needs to set aside for a healthy business. READ MORE →
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The Sexiest Cow in Bali: Turning Business Waste Into a Product
A cow bought to keep a riverside block clear became the centre of a daily waste exchange that cut costs for a whole neighbourhood. The same logic runs through six Indonesian businesses that turn discarded material into a product people will pay for. READ MORE →
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Raising Growth Capital in Indonesia: The Decision That Converts a PT PMDN to a PT PMA
A growing enterprise reaches a point where its own cash cannot fund the next stage. The source of the capital it raises decides the company’s legal identity, because any foreign shareholding converts a PT PMDN to a PT PMA. This article sets out raising growth capital in Indonesia, the regime conversion brings, the sector and… READ MORE →
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Brands Built to Multiply: How an Indonesian Enterprise Scales Without Parting With Capital or Control
An enterprise that builds each outlet on its own capital grows only as fast as its capital allows. A model designed to multiply lets other operators fund the growth while the owner keeps the brand and the control. This article sets out scaling a business in Indonesia through licensing, and the graduation to franchising when… READ MORE →
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Supply Chain Control in Indonesia: How a Domestic Operator Secures Its Place in a Foreign Joint Venture
TraceWorthy designed a beverage network as a joint venture, with domestic capital owning farming and manufacturing and foreign capital owning distribution, and the intellectual property split so that neither side can run the business without the other. This article shows how supply chain control in Indonesia secures the domestic partner’s place. READ MORE →
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Most Operators Compete by Doing the Same Thing as Their Rivals: Slightly Better or Slightly Cheaper
A foreign-owned investor came to Bali with a recycling model that could not fit the island’s roads, and left rather than adapt it. The demand stayed where it was. This article shows how a domestic enterprise finds the market gap a foreign operator leaves, and takes the position at the scale it chooses to serve. READ MORE →
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Competitive Advantage in Indonesia: Winning the Position Your Rivals Cannot See
A competitive advantage in Indonesia rarely comes from doing the same work at a lower price. It comes from changing the basis on which an enterprise competes. The first article in the Outposition Your Competition series shows how one Indonesian company found that position, and what a domestic enterprise gains from forty years of cross-sector… READ MORE →
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What it Costs to Put an Employee on the Books in Indonesia
The headline gross salary is rarely the figure that arrives in a foreign owner’s monthly budget. After BPJS contributions, PPh Article 21 withholding, the THR reserve, and the payroll cycle costs, the fully-loaded cost of an Indonesian employee runs at 115 to 118 per cent of gross. READ MORE →
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Anti-Money Laundering Compliance for a PT PMA in Indonesia
AML compliance for a PT PMA sits alongside tax and forex in every outbound transfer decision. Indonesia’s full FATF membership from October 2023, PPATK reporting under Law 8/2010, sanctions screening, and beneficial ownership disclosure. READ MORE →
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Women Founders in Indonesia: The Merits of Bootstrapping a Business
Martha Tilaar built Sariayu from a salon in her family’s house, and Mooryati Soedibyo built Mustika Ratu from Rp25,000 in her garage, neither by selling a share of the idea. This closing instalment makes the case for bootstrapping: proof of concept is a business funding its own expansion, and Indonesian law, through the reserve fund… READ MORE →
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Operating Layer: Back-Office Infrastructure, Compliance Governance, and the Cost of the Gap
TraceWorthy’s services are used by other consulting firms and real estate agencies across Indonesia, delivered to their clients under those firms’ own names. The advisory capability is available directly. This article maps the financial management, tax, land transaction, corporate structure, licensing, workplace compliance, and immigration failures TraceWorthy is routinely engaged to remedy in Bali’s operating… READ MORE →
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Clean by Design: Water Treatment, Refill, and Wastewater Enterprises in Indonesia
Bali’s aquifers have lost over 50 metres of groundwater depth in some areas in less than ten years. Wastewater infrastructure on the island processes less than ten per cent of the waste it generates. The average tourist uses between 2,000 and 4,000 litres of water per day. Water treatment investment in Indonesia addresses those pressures… READ MORE →