Angin Dampak Jaya Announces New Identity as Avantierra
Angin Dampak Jaya announces its new name, Avantierra, marking an evolution in the organisation’s identity and the direction of its work across business, investment, sustainability, and inclusive growth. The organisation’s roots were in angel investing, working closely with entrepreneurs and businesses at an early stage of their journeys. Over time, those experiences revealed that meaningful […]
Measuring Environmental Damage: Economic Valuation by INTRA
Spotting environmental changes around a mining area is often not difficult. Visible changes like degraded mangroves, shifting habitats, declining catches, and fewer days communities can fish can be observed directly. The difficulty arises when those changes need to be expressed in numbers. What exactly should be measured? What is the benchmark? How do you determine […]
AVPN Global Conference 2025: Beyond Impact Investing
Quentino A. Junandar, Business Development Associate, Angin Dampak Jaya Nearly a year back, attending the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network or AVPN Global Conference 2025 in Hong Kong carried a poignant irony: convening to address impact investing and sustainability just as Tapah, a T8 typhoon, struck the city. Tapah, alongside the super typhoon Ragasa, had been […]
Reflections From the 2026 ESG Award: Impact Beyond Capital
Angin Dampak Jaya (previously ANGIN Advisory) has just brought home the Best Facilitator award in the Impact Investment Category at the 2026 ESG Award, an initiative launched by the KEHATI Foundation in 2023 to promote ESG adoption and sustainable investment in Indonesia. This year, the award featured four categories: Capital Market, Impact Investment, Debt & […]
Angin Dampak Wins Best Facilitator of ESG Awards 2026 by KEHATI
We’re incredibly proud to be awarded Best Facilitator at the ESG Awards 2026 by KEHATI Foundation! ESG Award 2026 by KEHATI is a strategic initiative by KEHATI Foundation to appreciate and motivate institutions and market actors with consistent Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) implementation. This award is aimed at pushing the improvement of sustainable practices […]
INZS 2026: Can Downstreaming Go Beyond Extraction?
Industrial downstreaming alone will not transform Indonesia’s economy beyond extraction. What matters is what is built around it: the industrial ecosystem, the quality of human capital, and those involved in shaping policies. This was the message delivered by Saskia Tjokro, director of Angin Dampak Jaya (previously Angin Advisory), at the Indonesia Net-Zero Summit (INZS 2026) […]
The Reality Behind Indonesia’s Startup Boom and Its Challenges
The word “startup” has been a hot topic & popping up everywhere in business conversations, but not everyone’s catching what it really means. According to Collins Dictionary, a startup is the process of launching a new business or product. But that definition only scratches the surface. A study published in the Taylor and Francis Journal […]
Thomas Oni Veriasa Announced as Angin Dampak Jaya’s New Advisor
Please welcome the newest member of Angin Dampak Jaya’s Advisors Committee, Thomas Oni Veriasa! Thomas Oni Veriasa is a researcher at IPB University‘s Center for Regional Systems Analysis, Planning and Development (CRESPENT/P4W), Bogor, and former Executive Director of the Lembaga Alam Tropika Indonesia (LATIN). Additionally, his career spans over two decades in social forestry policy, […]
Double Materiality: Closing the Gap Between CSOs and Investors
There is often an invisible gap between the people standing at the edge of a nickel mine, documenting deforestation and land conflicts firsthand, and those assessing investment risks based on the information that reaches their desks, if it reaches them at all. This is the gap that the workshop “Closing the Gap: From Field Evidence […]
Navigating the DBS Foundation Grant for Social Enterprises
The DBS Foundation, part of DBS Bank, is dedicated to uplifting lives and livelihoods by fostering financial resilience and inclusion across Asia, specifically targeting Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. Central to its mission is supporting social enterprises that address critical societal needs through sustainable business practices, including the DBS Foundation Grant. Since 2015, […]
