Forbes Indonesia Magazine - December 2020

In this issue

As the calendar rolls into its last month each year, it’s usually a time to reflect on the 12 months past and look forward on an optimistic note to the opportunities ahead. The clarity of thought and action, or in some cases, a lack of it, by the world’s governments to control the virus has resulted in developed countries finishing the year on quite different recovery curves. Whilst the recent positive news on vaccines will give optimism to all of them, the need to roll out vaccination programs will still leave at least the first half of 2021 with a significant overhang before global trade and travel can truly begin to recover.

Near Cash – Near Future 2021, 2022, and Beyond

At the webinar in October, I discussed how the pandemic situation has had a huge impact, not only today but also in the aftermath.

3 mins

AI: Accelerated Innovation

Any credible list of influential books about tech from the last decade would include AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee.

5 mins

Digital Mastery

The COVID-19 has fundamentally changed PT Telkom Indonesia to be a digital telecommunication company.

4 mins

A Vial Business

The Stevanato Group began 71 years ago crafting specialty bottles for perfume and wine. Now it is perfectly positioned to profit from packaging pandemic cures.

6 mins

PANDEMIC HEADWINDS

In Southeast Asia’s worst-hit country, over half of its 50 richest saw their wealth decline.

8 mins

The Anti-Facebook

Amid a herd of grow at-all-cost unicorns, Facebook cofounder DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ ’s second act is a carefully constructed tortoise. As the global workplace has suddenly gone virtual, ASANA, the team-management software he has spent 12 years cultivating, is poised to win the race.

7 mins

The Showman

Filmmaker and entrepreneur Angga Dwimas Sasongko is building Visinema Group a one-stop entertainment house.

6 mins

Paperless Billionaire

Japanese lawmaker and entrepreneur TAICHIRO MOTOE became a billionaire by selling e-signature services amid the work-from-home revolution.

3 mins

TORY BRUCH'S SURVIVAL SKETCH-BOOK

Amid a luxury fashion apocalypse, one of the century’s greatest entrepreneurial retailers (and one of America’s richest self-made women) brought us deep inside the battle to save her brand.

10+ mins

HEROES OF PHILANTHROPY

HEROES OF PHILANTHROPY

10 mins

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