Arbitration Insights | Episode 5 | Investment Arbitration in Indonesia

In this episode, Professor Loukas Mistelis and Prakash Pillai, Clyde & Co’s Senior Equity Partners based in London and Singapore, unpack Indonesia’s evolving approach to investment arbitration and investor protection in one of ASEAN’s most significant markets.

They discuss: 

• Indonesia’s strategic shift away from traditional BITs and the policy drivers behind treaty reform
• Key features of Indonesia’s new-generation investment treaties, including the Indonesia–Singapore BIT and IA-CEPA
• Indonesia’s balancing act between regulatory space, inward FDI, and protection of outbound investors
• Landmark ISDS cases involving Indonesia
• Developments in Indonesia’s domestic arbitration framework and institutional modernisation
• What Indonesia’s trajectory signals for investors, states, and dispute resolution in Asia-Pacific

Gain practical insights into how Indonesia is recalibrating its investment treaty regime while remaining open to global capital – and what this means for the future of investment governance in the Asia-Pacific.