{"id":76008,"date":"2025-10-13T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/76008\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:29:17","slug":"indonesia-hopes-to-bank-on-bali-as-new-financial-hub-to-boost-lagging-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/76008\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia hopes to bank on Bali as new financial hub to boost lagging economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/indonesia?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indonesia<\/a> is planning to create a financial hub in tourist hotspot Bali as it seeks to boost its lagging economy by attracting international banks, asset managers and private equity firms, according to people familiar with the matter.President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/prabowo-subianto?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Prabowo Subianto<\/a> has endorsed his government\u2019s proposal to model the tourist island after the likes of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/india?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India<\/a>\u2019s Gujarat International Finance \u00adTec-\u00adCity, also known as GIFT City, and the Dubai International Financial Centre, said the people who asked not to be named because the plan was not public.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Bali financial zone would offer tax and regulatory exemptions, cut red tape and complex bureaucracy \u2013 a perennial problem for companies wanting to do business in Southeast Asia\u2019s largest economy.<\/p>\n<p>To do so, Indonesia was planning to implement a different legal framework in the hub, and was considering <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/singapore?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Singapore<\/a>\u2019s system as a possible model due to its business-friendly reputation, the people said.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Dubai International Financial Centre. Photo: Shutterstock\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/7a42ce28-26d3-46f4-b8d8-7648a506529b_eb214347.jpg\" title=\"The Dubai International Financial Centre. Photo: Shutterstock\"\/>The Dubai International Financial Centre. Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Officials are working on a draft proposal for a possible parliament vote at the end of the year. Still, the proposed Indonesia Financial City was at a conceptual stage and subject to change, the people said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indonesia is planning to create a financial hub in tourist hotspot Bali as it seeks to boost its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[31272,22177,138,56418,59368,219,52292,21728,59371,56419,5696,59372,59369,1775,59370,111,139,69,10458],"class_list":["post-76008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bali","tag-bridgewater-associates","tag-business","tag-da-nang","tag-dubai-international-financial-centre","tag-economy","tag-ftse-russell","tag-gift-city","tag-gujarat-international-finance-tec-city","tag-ho-chi-minh-city","tag-indonesia","tag-jodi-mahardi","tag-luhut-panjaitan","tag-malaysia","tag-national-economic-council","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-prabowo-subianto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}