# Indonesia's wealth fund bets $5bn on home stocks

> Danantara invests heavily in Indonesian businesses as MSCI downgrade threatens to pull foreign money out.
- Title: Indonesia's wealth fund bets $5bn on home stocks · Fortune
- Summary: Danantara invests heavily in Indonesian businesses as MSCI downgrade threatens to pull foreign money out. Indonesia's sovereign wealth fund Danantara plans…
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- Source: Fortune — https://fortune.com/2026/10/16/danantara-5-billion-indonesia-stocks-msci
- Author: Angelica Ang
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: danantara, indonesia, sovereign wealth fund, msci, jakarta composite index, pandu sjahrir, stock market, emerging markets
## Five billion dollar commitment
Danantara, Indonesia's sovereign wealth fund launched by President Prabowo Subianto in two thousand twenty-five, plans to invest five billion dollars in Indonesian businesses over the next six to nine months.
## MSCI downgrade proposal
On October fifteenth, MSCI proposed downgrading Indonesia from emerging-market to standalone status, which would remove Indonesian stocks from MSCI's emerging and frontier-market indices. Indonesia has until April two thousand twenty-seven to enact reforms.
## Market plunge follows downgrade
The MSCI proposal sparked an eleven point six percent plunge in the Jakarta Composite Index.The index is now down just over forty percent for the year, showing how much Indonesia needs to convince global investors.
## Economic value over returns
Pandu Sjahrir, Danantara's chief investment officer, said the fund focuses on creating economic value, not necessarily commercial value first.

> The idea is to create economic value, and not necessarily commercial value first, that's an important distinction.
## Four operational arms
Danantara has four units: asset management overseeing over one thousand state-owned enterprises, investment management maximizing returns via bonds and equities, the Danantara Development Management Fund deploying capital to infrastructure projects, and Danantara Resources Indonesia launching…
## Resource export centralization
Danantara Resources Indonesia will serve as a digital platform centralizing exports of Indonesia's natural resources, starting with coal, palm oil and ferroalloys.
## State control worries analysts
Analysts worry that Danantara's expanded role, announced by Prabowo in May, represents encroaching state control.
## Learning through investment
Danantara invested two hundred fifty million dollars in HighPeak Energy, a Texas-based oil and gas producer, to learn about shale technology.

> If we are able to have some good downside protection, we get paid to learn.
## Key takeaway

Indonesia's sovereign wealth fund Danantara plans to invest five billion dollars in Indonesian businesses over six to nine months, stepping in as a market stabilizer after MSCI proposed downgrading the country from emerging-market to standalone status.