InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA - Indonesia Impact Alliance (IIA) would be the first National Advisory Board in Indonesia that delivers access of modal, encourages investment and catalysator to create profitable markets for the people and environment.
President Ford Foundation, Darren Walker, the representatives of Indonesia, business groups attended the launching of IIA. As one founder of IIA and investor that delivers impacts to the markets globally, Ford Foundation supports IIA to gather investors, businessmen, entrepreneurship and the government to develop investment ecosystem that would deliver impact for Indonesia, chances for entrepreneurship to get financial profits while contributing to solve social and environmental issues.
“In many countries we have seen dynamic of ‘impact investment’ keeps developing as the most influencing approach and measured solution to accomplish the issues in the society. Besides, the approach successfully delivered positively financial profits. That is why IIA would be the place to deliver significant opportunities in Indonesia,” Darren Walker said, as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT recently.
He also mentioned, by many sector – collaborations, and the good partnership, modal from private sectors can be taken for advantages to escalate economy and re-manage investment mechanism to focus on what people need of.
For information, Ford Foundation has its mission to expand its support to investment globally which it was aspired to get positive impacts from many aspects, such as, the social, economy, environment and should be the same with financial profit investment.
CEO Instellar, Chairman of IIA, Romy Cahyadi said that Indonesia Impact Alliance would play significant roles to connect foreign and local investors to get opportunity to develop, create chance and capability to innovate. “Of course, these would be good for shareholders and the people,” Romy said.
After the launching, the main target of IIA is to escalate ‘direct investment’ in start-up companies to deliver big impacts by multiplying foreign and Indonesian investors, and diaspora community in Indonesia. IIA would function as coordinator, information center, and partners that supports investment policy development in Indonesia. It would be supported by Ministry of National Development Plan/National Development Plan Agency and United Nations Development Program Indonesia.
Other information is that Ford Foundation launched Investment Mission program for about US$ 1 billion in 2017 and became investment support that delivers long-term investment in and other countries. (T1)
