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Commodity tokenization sounds simple. Rice, cocoa, or a commodity purchase contract is represented by digital tokens, and those tokens are then used to raise financing or transferred to investors.The difficult part sits outside the blockchain. The system must confirm that the commodity exists, that its quality matches the documents, that its valuation is updated, and that token holders can enforce their rights when a payment or delivery fails.Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority, or OJK, beg

Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority, or OJK, announced that PT Tennet Depository Indonesia passed the regulatory sandbox on June 11, 2026. Its tested business model was a non-trading digital financial asset custodian under the product name Tennet.The result moves the custody model closer to Indonesia’s formal digital-finance framework. It does not automatically constitute a full operating licence or guarantee that assets held by the service cannot be lost.A regulatory sandbox tests a busine

Two widely different estimates of poverty in Indonesia appeared within a short period. Statistics Indonesia, or BPS, reported that 8.07% of the population was below the national poverty line in March 2026. The World Bank estimated that 64.1% was below the US$8.30 purchasing power parity, or PPP, line used for upper-middle-income countries.The figures do not cancel each other out. BPS and the World Bank rely on Indonesia’s National Socioeconomic Survey, or SUSENAS, but use poverty thresholds desi

Indonesia’s net liability International Investment Position, or IIP, declined to US$197.4 billion at the end of the second quarter of 2026, from US$223 billion in the previous quarter.The reduction amounted to US$25.6 billion, or approximately 11.5% in one quarter.The change improves Indonesia’s external balance sheet. Residents’ foreign financial assets increased, while the value of foreign claims on Indonesia declined.That may support rupiah resilience, but it does not guarantee appreciation.

Indonesia’s House Legislative Body is drafting a Strategic Commodities Bill. One proposal is to build an integrated commodity-management system from production to marketing, potentially including transactions through a strategic commodity exchange.The stated objectives include stronger price transparency, a better negotiating position for Indonesia, and less under-invoicing or underpricing in export transactions.An exchange can produce standardized data on prices, volume, quality, and participan

ARGUS began attracting attention as Arc Mainnet opened on September 16, 2026. The token is associated with Argus, a launchpad that allows users to create, discover, and trade new assets on Arc Chain.The relationship requires careful wording. Argus is a third-party application built on Arc. It is not an official Circle or Arc Network product. ARGUS is also separate from ARC, the proposed native coordination asset for the Arc network.The ARGUS covered in this article uses the Arc contract address

Arc Mainnet opened to the public on September 16, 2026. Unlike most Layer 1 networks, Arc does not require users to hold a freely floating native token to pay transaction fees. Gas is paid in USDC, a stablecoin designed to track the value of the U.S. dollar.Arc Mainnet launched publicly on September 16, 2026, with USDC as native gas and sub-second deterministic finality. Source: Arc Network, September 16, 2026. This changes the basic blockchain experience. On Ethereum, a user sending USDC still

Bank Indonesia raised the maximum Macroprudential Liquidity Incentive, known as KLM, to 6% of bank third-party funds from September 1, 2026. The policy gives eligible banks more room to use their liquidity.The 6% figure can easily be misunderstood. KLM is not a six-percentage-point reduction in lending rates, not a 6% cash transfer to every bank, and not a guarantee that all borrowers will immediately receive cheaper loans.KLM works by reducing the amount that an eligible bank must maintain at B

Indonesia’s House of Representatives, or DPR, approved the Agrarian Reform Regulation Bill as a DPR initiative during a plenary meeting on September 8, 2026. The draft prepared by the DPR’s Legislation Body contains 70 articles across 16 chapters.Its proposed scope includes land restitution and redistribution, agrarian-conflict resolution, legal recognition for eligible communities, and the establishment of a National Agrarian Reform Agency, or BRAN.The process has since moved forward. On Septem

The Federal Reserve just delivered something markets normally dislike: a 25-basis-point interest-rate hike. On September 16, the Fed raised its benchmark rate to 3.75%-4.00%, its first increase since July 2023, while signaling that inflation remains elevated. Yet instead of triggering a sustained sell-off, markets quickly recovered. On September 17, the Nasdaq jumped 1.69%, the S&P 500 gained 1.14%, and Bitcoin rebounded from $75.5k.At first glance, the reaction appears contradictory. Higher rat