Indonesia’s IPO fever dream

Issuance has barely stopped in Indonesia’s IPO market this year. Global investors have bought into the resource-led story with glee – and there are plenty of deals in the pipeline.

Predicting a country’s long-term direction and potential based on a series of capital markets deals is rarely a sensible idea. But there are exceptions.

Indonesia has focused the minds of investment bankers and global investors this year, having spent decades being largely overlooked by both. For all its manifest advantages – chiefly natural resources – the sprawling Asian nation was perceived, often correctly, as a perpetually slumbering giant: corrupt, unworkable, economically unvaried and controlled by a handful of families who squirrelled away their private wealth in nearby Singapore.

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