Foreign Direct Investment Indonesia: Trends, Sectors and Entry Routes (2026)
Foreign direct investment Indonesia reached Rp507.6 trillion in the first half of 2026, 50.2% of the Rp1,010.6 trillion in total realised investment that the Ministry of Investment and Downstreaming (BKPM) reported for the period. That is the headline. The useful part for anyone choosing a site is underneath it: which sectors the money went to, […]
Bulk Terminal Operations: Dry and Liquid Cargo Handling Explained
A bulk terminal moves cargo that has no packaging: coal, cement, fertiliser and grain on the dry side, crude palm oil, chemicals and fuels on the liquid side. Because nothing is boxed, the terminal’s equipment is the packaging, and its design decides how fast a ship turns around, how much product is lost on the […]
Industrial Estate in Indonesia: 14 Due Diligence Questions Before You Commit
Industrial estate in Indonesia will lead you to fourteen questions decide whether the site works. They cover land title, permits, infrastructure and the developer’s own position. Most of them can be answered in a single meeting by a developer who has the documents ready, and the speed of the answer tells you almost as much […]
Port of Belawan Indonesia: Complete Profile, Facilities and Capacity (2026)
Port of Belawan Indonesia is the country’s busiest seaport outside Java and the primary trade gateway of North Sumatra. Located on the Strait of Malacca near Medan, it handles roughly 10 million tonnes of cargo and about 600,000 TEUs annually, led by palm oil exports. That single paragraph answers the basic question, but the details […]
Industrial Park Indonesia: The Complete Guide for Foreign Investors (2026)
Industrial park Indonesia decides more of your cost base than most site-selection shortlists admit. The park sets your utility supply, your permit route, your neighbours, your distance to a berth, and in many regencies it decides whether you are allowed to build at all. This guide covers what an Indonesian industrial park legally is, how […]
Sumalacca Integrated Industrial and Port Estate: Project Overview
The Sumalacca Integrated Industrial and Port Estate (SIIPE) is a planned industrial estate, deep seaport and residential township on the Strait of Malacca in Medan Belawan, North Sumatra, 4.7 km from Belawan Port. This page is the reference overview of the project: where the site is, how much land is involved, what the port is […]
The Importance of the Strait of Malacca: Why Indonesia Owns the Coastline
The importance of the Strait of Malacca to global trade is not in dispute. It is the busiest commercial chokepoint on earth, and the arguments about tonnage, chokepoints and vessel classes have been settled for years. A different question has not been settled, and it is the one that matters if you are building on […]
Ready to Build Industrial Land: A Strategic Guide for Fast-Track Industrial Expansion
Global supply chain disruptions, nearshoring strategies, and surging demand across Asia-Pacific have compressed project commissioning deadlines to historic lows. When manufacturing conglomerates, heavy chemical producers, and clean-tech fabricators decide to expand operations, capital deployment speed dictates market capture. Yet, traditional industrial land acquisition models remain fraught with hidden capital expenditures, protracted regulatory approvals, and land-grading […]
Sumalacca Industrial Estate: Zoning, Land Title Status and Land Use Plan (2026)
Sumalacca Industrial Estate is a common short name for the Sumalacca Integrated Industrial and Port Estate (SIIPE), a planned 5,600-hectare industrial estate, bulk port and township on the Strait of Malacca in Medan Belawan, North Sumatra. About 840 hectares has been acquired so far, and Belawan Port is 4.7 km away. Below, we set out […]
Trans Sumatra Toll Road in 2026: What It Means for Freight
The Trans Sumatra toll road is the largest road programme in Indonesian history and one of the hardest to describe accurately, because the operator, the regulator and the press regularly publish different numbers for the same thing in the same month. That is not carelessness. It reflects a road being built in stages, where a […]