A web of offshore companies — linked directly to the family and business associates of Arsjad Rasjid, CEO of Indika Energy — has emerged as a dominant supplier of sensitive surveillance and IT equipment to the Indonesian National Police.
Trade data and corporate filings reveal a coordinated network of entities in Hungary, Hong Kong, and Singapore acting as high-value intermediaries. These firms, often owned by Rasjid’s sons or Indika-linked employees, appear to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars in “infiltration” and “tactical” hardware to a specific cluster of Indonesian importers connected to PT Asuransi Cakrawala Proteksi.
United Collaborative Group KFT (Hungary)
As detailed in our previous article, this Hungarian firm rapidly became a top exporter to Indonesia, shipping over USD 400 million in IT products between 2023 and mid-2025. It is owned by Adryan Mangkuningrat, the son of Arsjad Rasjid. UCG appears to be a pure middleman. Goods are not shipped from Hungary but dispatched from Christchurch (NZ), Singapore, and Hong Kong.
Billion Century Limited (Hong Kong)
Founded in 2023, this entity mirrors UCG’s operational pattern. Its public face is a wordpress website containing only boilerplate text (“Empowering Connectivity”) with no information on management or staff.
Annual filings retrieved from e-services.cr.gov.hk reveal the firm is firmly embedded in the Rasjid family network:
- Local name: 億達世紀有限公司
- Address: Room B, 17/F, Loyong Court, 212–220 Lockhart Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
- Email: andrewkfwong@gmail.com
- Hong Kong contact phone: +852 6124 8822
- Company Secretary: WisPool Corporate Services Limited
- Shares held: 60,000 ordinary shares by Andre Rasjid MANGKUNINGRAT
Directors:
- Andre Rasjid MANGKUNINGRAT (Passport: Indonesia, partial no. X119)
- Adryan MANGKUNINGRAT (Passport: Indonesia, partial no. C618)
- Charles CAI (Passport: Singapore, partial no. K1981)
Trade records list two companies as buyers: PT Kencana Teknologi Solusindo & PT Mitra Sekawan Nusantara. Trade Activity Exports commenced in 2024 with USD 6.75 million, rising to USD 25.0 million in 2025.
The firm’s two largest trades (HS code 903040) are explicitly described as “Surveilance Car With Tactical Active Radar.”
Coplan International Kft:
Historical filings indicate that Coplan International Kft served as a precursor to the current network. The Hungarian firm saw its revenue explode from near-zero to 23 billion HUF (approx. $64M) in 2021, before dissolving in 2022 — just as UCG began its ascent. Its directors included Charles Cai and Chua Thiam Joo — names that recur across this network. It was previously owned by Primus Trust Fiduciary Asset Management Plc. (2018–2019) and then CoPlan Industries Ltd. from 4 Feb 2019 until deletion in 2022
According to LinkedIn, Thiam Joo Chua is the independent owner of Trajective Pte Ltd, a distributor/reseller of cybersecurity and data analytics solutions. From 2018–2024, he served as a Senior Advisor at PT Cakrabuana Ventura Indonesia (a venture capital entity often linked to Indika’s ecosystem).
Meanwhile Charles Cai has been a Director at multiple Indika companies since 2013.
Stanfield Pte Ltd
Incorporated in 2014, Stanfield Pte Ltd acts as a major offshore vehicle for the Indonesian National Police, so far moving over USD 200 million in equipment. The company’s director and shareholder, Lee Siew Yuan, also serves as an Assistant Manager at Indika Capital.
The secretary is Edy Kartono Gunawan, a Singaporean citizen. Stanfield’s registered business activities are vaguely defined as management consultancy and the “wholesale trade of a variety of goods without a dominant product.”
The Onshore Tender Participants
The hardware and software dispatched by these offshore entities are received by a specific circle of Indonesian companies that frequently participate in high-value tenders for the National Police and, to a lesser extent, the Attorney General’s Office (AGO). Interestingly, trade data reveals that several shipments are addressed directly to the police as the consignee. This direct-to-agency labeling is a notable tactic that can be used to bypass standard import duties and taxes.
Between 2015 and mid-2025, the five identified Indonesian companies — PT Ras Digital Media, PT Plasma Inti Media, PT Kencana Teknologi Solusindo, PT Karunia Cahaya Abadi, and PT Mitra Sekawan Nusantara — collectively secured government tenders valued at IDR 13,079,360,374,485.
The primary importers share deep corporate ties to Arsjad Rasjid’s business ecosystem, particularly through PT Asuransi Cakrawala Proteksi:
- PT Ras Digital Media: Owned by Kiki Otto Kurniawan, who has been identified in Kompas as a close associate or “subordinate” (anak buah) of Arsjad Rasjid.
- PT Plasma Inti Media: Owned by Gunawan Budirahardjo, a Commissioner at PT Asuransi Cakrawala Proteksi.
- PT Kencana Teknologi Solusindo owned by Handayani Fibriyanti, who serves as the President of the Board of Directors at Cakrawala Rentalindo Sejahtera.
- PT Karunia Cahaya Abadi, controlled by Ng Dobias Iskandar, the Main Commissioner at PT Asuransi Cakrawala Proteksi Indonesia. (source)
- PT Mitra Sekawan Nusantara is owned by Eko Supriyanto & Claudia Franciska Samartha. LinkedIn records identify Samartha as the Secretary to the Director at Asuransi Cakrawala.
The common denominator between these five local importers is their exclusive reliance on a specific cluster of offshore intermediaries. By analyzing global trade data, a clear pattern of “circular procurement” emerges: the same few individuals — all linked to the Rasjid family or Indika Capital — operate the foreign entities that supply the Indonesian police and the AGO.
- United Collaborative Group Kft (Hungary): owned & managed by Adryan Mangkuningrat, high-value exports from 2023–2025.
- Coplan International Kft (Hungary, dissolved): The predecessor to the current network, formerly directed by Chua Thiam Joo and Charles Cai (both Indika-linked)
- Stanfield Pte Ltd (Singapore): Incorporated in 2014, its shareholder and director is Lee Siew Yuan, who serves as an Assistant Manager at Indika Capital.
- Billion Century Limited (Hong Kong) owned by Andre Rasjid Mangkuningrat.
- United Global Technologies Pte Ltd (Singapore), owners: unknown. Lodger names are: Yeoh See Pei & Karlina Name.
Tender delivery
Evidence of this mismatch between contract value and technical reality can be seen in official field trials. In 2021, the National Police Research and Development Center (Puslitbang Polri) conducted a demonstration and trial of “IN2Cyber” technology, described as a tool for counter-surveillance and tactical monitoring. While the underlying tenders for such systems are worth hundreds of billions of rupiah, the trials — initiated by PT Kencana Teknologi Solusindo — often focus on portable hardware or software demonstrations that appear disproportionately small compared to their price tags. The same trial session also featured a “Passive GSM Interception System” proposed by PT Plasma Inti Media, further highlighting how this specific circle of companies consistently secures high-value contracts for sensitive surveillance tools that are difficult for the public to independently value.
Conclusion
The architecture of this network is remarkably insular: two of the primary offshore suppliers are owned and managed directly by Arsjad Rasjid’s sons, while the others are directed by long-term associates and employees of Indika Capital. This creates a “closed-loop” system where sensitive government contracts are serviced entirely within a private family and business ecosystem.
While these linkages do not inherently prove corruption, the use of offshore middlemen in jurisdictions like Hungary and Hong Kong facilitates a lack of transparency. Auditing the procurement of specialized surveillance hardware — such as “tactical active radar” or “infiltration software” — is notoriously difficult, as original manufacturers rarely publish list prices. By operating through a chain of family-controlled intermediaries, the network is positioned to apply significant markups on state-funded contracts, effectively shielding the true cost of Indonesia’s digital surveillance infrastructure from public and regulatory oversight.
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