EGN invites you to join EGN Leadership, Jakarta Peer Group Meeting!
Date/ Time: Thursday, September 18th, 2025, from 4:30PM – 8:30PM WIB.
Indonesia's Strategic Role in Global Trade: Unlocking Potential and Navigating Challenges
As foreign founders with decades in Indonesia's market, we've seen its rise as a global trade powerhouse, leveraging strengths while tackling complexities. Strategic executives need real-world insights into smart investments and growth in uncertain times.
Join our keynote, "Indonesia's Strategic Role in Global Trade: A Founder's Perspective."
As an ASEAN's largest economy projecting 4.0-4.5% growth in 2025 amid partnerships like ASEAN-GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) unlocking significant trade flows by 2027, the real challenges for foreign investors such as strict regulations, cultural gaps, and hype vs. reality, intensified by China's Q2 2025 GDP slowdown to 5.2% (full-year ~4.6-5%), U.S.-China tensions in trade reciprocal tariffs war, and domestic protests over rising costs and inequality despite ~5.1% Q2 GDP.
Key opportunities if approached right, including leveraging the U.S.-Indonesia deal (19% reciprocal tariffs on exports, 99% elimination on U.S. imports), ASEAN frameworks like Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ties for digital/ sustainable trade and supply chain diversification; and lessons from real practice like building trust via local partners, adapting to volatility, and aligning with Indonesia's neutral stance for resilient growth.
Join peers to discuss applying these insights, turning challenges into advantages for success in global trade.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Michal Wasserbauer
Co-Founder and Former CEO of Cekindo Indonesia & Vietnam (acquired by InCorp Group, 2018-2022), with 15+ years in market entry and scaling in Southeast Asia
Agenda:
16.30 - 17.00: Registration and networking.
17.00 - 17.30: Welcome - Update on EGN and Introduction to new members.
17.30 - 18.00: Wise Crowd Session.
18.00 - 18.30: Member to Member Session: "We built the Runway for Gen Z but forgot to Teach Them to Land" with Veejay Madhavan (Silicon India's 2023 List of 20 Most Promising Companies in APAC for the work done with start-ups) and EGN Indonesia Executive Leadership (EL) Member.
(A substitution of Advisory Board).
18.30 - 19.00: Break including Maghrib Praying, Dinner, and Group Photo.
19.00 - 20.15: Keynote Topic of the Day: "Indonesia's Strategic Role in Global Trade: A Founder's Perspective with Michal Wasserbauer", Co-Founder and Former CEO of Cekindo Indonesia & Vietnam (acquired by InCorp Group, 2018-2022).
20.15 - 20:30: Wrap Up.
20.30: Meeting Close
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