About Us

Danantara Monitor is an independent initiative dedicated to monitoring, analyzing, and exposing the power and influence of Danantara, Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund (SWF). We believe that public wealth must be managed with public accountability—not secrecy, elite control, or unchecked ambition.

To understand how our public wealth is being used—and who benefits from it—we must follow the flow of capital. Increasingly, that capital is being funneled through a financial structure that operates without public consultation, without independent audits, and without meaningful democratic oversight: Danantara.

Financial institutions, state officials, and private actors are not used to being scrutinized for how they govern national wealth.
Danantara Monitor was created to change that.

We are building a collective civic memory of how Indonesia’s public assets are being transferred, invested, and restructured in the name of “development”—often with profound consequences for democracy, equity, and sovereignty.

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Danantara Monitor exists to track—and challenge—the transfer of public wealth into sovereign wealth fund management. As trillions of dollars in state-owned assets move under the control of Danantara, Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund, we ask a simple question: whose interests does this serve?

In the absence of oversight, transparency, and public participation, there is no guarantee that Danantara’s investments will serve the people. Instead, they risk deepening inequality, enabling elite capture, and accelerating environmental and social harm in the name of national development.

The path forward is clear: sovereign wealth must be subject to sovereign control. Danantara must be governed transparently, audited independently, and shaped by public interest—not political appointments or backroom deals.

Danantara Monitor brings together civil society groups, academics, public policy advocates, journalists, researchers, and concerned citizens who share one purpose: to ensure that Indonesia’s wealth is governed with integrity, not financing the climate crisis. We produce evidence-based research, build strategic advocacy, support democratic campaigns, and strengthen the networks needed to hold concentrated economic power accountable.

We believe that only through persistent public pressure—on institutions, media, lawmakers, and financial actors—can we ensure that Danantara becomes a force for equity and sustainability, not another instrument of unchecked power.

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