Indonesia Economic Summit (IES) 2026, held at the Shangri-La Hotel in Jakarta on 3–4 February 2026, brought together government leaders, business executives, global investors, academics, and international organizations from 53 countries to strengthen cross-sector collaboration and drive Indonesia’s economic transformation. Under the theme “Coming Together to Boost Resilient Growth and Shared Prosperity,” the Summit reinforced its role as a working forum where policy direction, business priorities, and investment opportunities meet amid global uncertainty and structural change.
IES 2026 emphasized on implementation and follow-up. A key milestone was the launch of the B57+ Asia-Pacific Regional Chapter, which strengthened cross-regional business connectivity with an operational focus, creating a more structured channel for collaboration spanning partnerships, financing opportunities, and joint projects. On the urban agenda, the discussion “Unlocking Investment for Sustainable Cities: What Does it Take to Accelerate City Investment at Scale?” highlighted the importance of project readiness, financing structures, and bankability. This discussion also marked the launch of the Indonesia City Investment Accelerator (ICIA), a collaborative platform designed to accelerate city investment readiness by bringing together government, investors, the private sector, and financing institutions.
On financial market deepening, IES 2026 marked the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between IBC and the Global Ethical Finance Initiative (GEFI), reflecting a shared commitment to advancing ethical and sustainable finance in Indonesia. The partnership positions Islamic sustainable finance within a broader ethical finance framework to help broaden the investor base and channel long-term capital toward the real economy. Through policy dialogue, knowledge exchange, and joint initiatives, the collaboration aims to strengthen market confidence and support inclusive, sustainability-aligned growth.
Productivity was advanced into an actionable agenda through “Charting Indonesia’s Productive State: Building a Whole-of-Society National Productivity Movement.” As part of implementing Bappenas’ Productivity Masterplan, the session underscored the need for measurable, cross-stakeholder action aligned with real-sector needs. This was followed by the formal handover of the National Productivity Masterplan 2025-2029 to the Business-Led Think Tank Consortium.
The human-capital dimension was addressed through the session “Investing in People: Financing Indonesia’s Global Workforce Development,” which addressed early-stage financing constraints in training and certification systems that affect workforce scale and quality. Complementing this agenda, IES 2026 also advanced the women’s leadership agenda through the IES Executive Breakfast “Her Impact, Our Growth: Women Building Indonesia’s Future,” in line with efforts to strengthen more systemic support for women. For the next generation, Indonesia’s Future Growth Champions (IFGC) highlighted the role of social enterprises and emerging ventures, with a focus on improving access to financing and markets to enable their impact to scale.
This summit also featured a Policy Dialogue Session with Minister of Trade Budi Santoso, which focused on the need for closer coordination between the government and the private sector to respond to global trade pressures. The discussion focused on revitalizing manufacturing through fair competition, streamlined regulations, and better alignment between import policies and domestic industrial capacity. This session is also followed by the handover of Policy Brief titled “Penguatan Tata Kelola Perdagangan untuk Daya Saing di Tengah Ketidakpastian Global” from the Indonesian Business Council (IBC) to Minister of Trade.
The sustainability agenda was reinforced through the roundtable “Unlocking New Engines of Prosperity Through Green Growth and Carbon Pricing in Indonesia,” held in collaboration with the Indonesia Climate and Growth Dialogue (ICGD). The discussion emphasized that carbon policy is increasingly viewed as a lever for investment and competitiveness, while encouraging businesses to integrate low-carbon strategies into their growth plans.
A discussion on the region was also a highlight of “Positioning Indonesia In ASEAN’s Geoeconomic Future,” held in partnership with the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), underscoring that ASEAN is entering a phase in which deeper coordination matters as much as growth.
Beyond the main sessions, four bilateral business roundtables with Singapore, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Australia added more targeted pathways for follow-up. The Australia roundtable concluded with the launch of the second edition of the Investment Prospectus “Invested: Indonesia to 2040 Opportunities and Pathways for Australian Investors”, presenting an updated prospectus outlining investment opportunities and pathways for Australian investors and reinforcing practical post-IES follow-through.
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