How one line in Indonesia's procurement data leads to two clusters of interlocking companies, a shared office tower on Daan Mogot, and a shipment of Chinese smartboards priced to the dollar. Between March 6 and March 17, 2025, nine container shipments left Shekou, China, for Tanjung Priok, Jakarta. Customs records describe the cargo identically on every manifest: "86Inch Interactive Flat Panel" , HS code 84714190. The importer on all nine was PT Karya Makmur Nusantara Bersama , a company registered at a shophouse in Pantai Indah Kapuk, North Jakarta. The exporter on all nine was Guangzhou Wantong Technology Company Limited . The quantities add up to exactly 1,000 sets . The declared values are stranger: 134 sets for USD 495,800; 132 for USD 488,400; 67 for USD 247,900; 66 for USD 244,200. Every line resolves to precisely USD 3,700 per set . Until 2025, this importer's customs history consisted of motorcycle workshop equipment — "Special Tools For Honda,...
In early 2026, Indonesia's Badan Gizi Nasional (BGN) — the National Nutrition Agency responsible for executing President Prabowo's flagship free nutritious meals program — became a focal point for a wave of e-bike and electric vehicle procurement intended to support "last mile" meal distribution to schools and community kitchens (SPPG) across the archipelago. 21,801 Emmo-branded electric motorcycles were purchased by BGN from PT Adlas Sarana Elektrik and PT Yasa Artha Trimanunggal, both part of the same tightly-held corporate group known as the Yasa Group. The two models — the Emmo-JVX GT trail bike at Rp 43,300,000 per unit and the Emmo-JV Max underbone at Rp 41,700,000 per unit — were listed on the government e-catalogue as certified domestic products (PDN), qualifying for procurement on the strength of a 48.5% TKDN score held by PT Adlas Sarana Elektrik. Within days of the purchase becoming public, social media users began circulating side-by-side images of the Emm...