Insights
Original articles and perspectives by Desra Ghazfan on artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, industrial transformation, energy, business and Indonesia’s technological future.
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Aircraft Finance Is Part of the Aircraft
Indonesia’s aerospace ambitions depend on access to customer finance as well as engineering. Lion Air’s financing history, the economics of leasing and the Mandiri Aviation Leasing Fund initiative show why financial capability belongs inside the country’s aviation strategy.
From Digital Infrastructure to Industrial Capability: What Indonesia Should Build Next
Digital infrastructure is only the foundation. Indonesia's next task is to turn connectivity and compute into engineering, innovation and industrial capability.
Technology and the Next Transformation of Indonesian Industry
Indonesia's next industrial transformation will come from combining data, automation, AI and skilled people to redesign how value is created.
Indonesia Needs Aviation. What Makes an Aircraft Programme Viable?
Indonesia’s geography makes aviation essential, but an aircraft programme needs its own investment case. Route economics, credible customers, certification, lifetime support and transparent public funding determine whether national ambition can become dependable service.
Supply Chain Resilience in Indonesian Ceramic Tiles Manufacturing: A President Director’s Perspective
Ceramic tile resilience depends on qualified ball clay and feldspar, reliable gas, disciplined logistics, technical flexibility and investment decisions based on cost per saleable square metre—not merely purchase price.
Indonesia’s Aviation Strategy: Building a Sovereign Aerospace Integrator
Indonesia’s aerospace ambition should build lasting engineering authority, competitive support businesses and credible financing. A sovereign-integrator strategy offers a practical way to connect Habibie’s legacy with an industry capable of delivering and sustaining aircraft in service.
Indonesia's Green AI Opportunity: Building the Infrastructure Behind the Intelligence
AI may look like software, but its real foundation is physical. Indonesia can build the energy, data centers, networks and talent behind sustainable intelligence.