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Policies·id_prabowo_danantara_2025

Danantara sovereign wealth vehicle 2025

IDN·2025 present·enacted 2025-02-24·Gerindra-led Koalisi Indonesia Maju Pluscandidate
movessectoral licensingrule of lawspending levelproperty rights

What the policy did

Daya Anagata Nusantara (Danantara Indonesia), launched 24 February 2025 under UU No. 1/2025 amending the SOE Law (UU 19/2003), is a sovereign investment vehicle consolidating equity stakes in Indonesia's major state-owned enterprises — Pertamina (oil), PLN (power), Telkom, Mandiri, BRI, BNI, and Mining Industry Indonesia (MIND ID). Target AUM ~USD 900bn, staged across the largest SOEs first. Sits outside the finance ministry and outside BPK standard audit scope; reports directly to the president. Merges INA (Indonesia Investment Authority, 2021) into the new structure. Modelled rhetorically on Temasek and Khazanah.

Policy-content fingerprint — what this policy moved, on which axes

Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.

intended
sectoral licensing
regulatory.sectoral_licensing
Sector-specific licensing regimes, concentration / quota allocation, state-controlled entry (energy, telecoms, healthcare, banking).
increased · strong
tighter sectoral licensing / more state gating
Consolidates strategic-sector SOE control under a single investor-of-last-resort entity, tightening state gating of strategic sectors.
spending level
fiscal.spending_level
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
increased · weak
higher spending share
Off-balance-sheet equity injections widen the consolidated public-sector footprint beyond headline budget.
unintended / side-effect
rule of law
institutional.rule_of_law
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
decreased · moderate · unintended
weaker rule of law
Audit and oversight carve-out from BPK standard scope; direct-to-president reporting reduces legislative and civil-service accountability.
property rights
institutional.property_rights
Security of private property rights — formal recognition, expropriation risk, titling systems.
decreased · weak · unintended
weaker property rights
Larger state capital block in strategic sectors raises expropriation tail risk for minority private partners.

Enacted by

Empirical evidence — linked hypotheses

Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".

Estonia adopted among the most radical market-liberalisation packages of any post-Soviet state — flat tax (26% universal rate, 1994), currency board (EEK pegged to DM/EUR, 1992), rapid privatisation, unilateral free trade, and minimal capital controls — and by 2007 had recovered to Soviet-era GDP per capita levels and substantially exceeded them, while Belarusian and Ukrainian peers had not recovered comparably.
estonia_market_reform_post_soviet_growth_1991_2007inferred
viainstitutional.property_rightsinstitutional.rule_of_law
PARTIAL — recovery threshold pass=True (year_recovered=1998, 2007 vs 1991 = 70.53282727739165); Baltic−CIS gap pass=False (gap=5.1509956229348575)
partial
Starting from comparable 1945 post-war conditions — same ethnicity, language, pre-war German institutional and industrial inheritance, and with the GDR inheriting a larger share of pre-war industrial capital in Saxony and Thuringia — the Federal Republic's Soziale Marktwirtschaft (Ordoliberal market economy with welfare state) versus the German Democratic Republic's planned economy with administered prices, state-enterprise production, and soft budget constraints produced by 1989 a canonical divergence that pattern-matches >=7 of 10 pre-registered extreme-outcome metrics, each drawn from a different publisher or methodology family.
west_east_germany_economic_system_divergence_1950_1989inferred
viainstitutional.property_rightsinstitutional.rule_of_law
INCONCLUSIVE_DATA_PENDING — no outcome variable loaded; missing: ['derived: count of canonical_metrics with threshold met']
run pending
El Salvador's FDI inflow, real-GDP growth, tourism arrivals, and business-formation rate accelerated under the Bukele era (2019-2024) relative to a Central American peer-country donor pool (Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Dominican Republic).
bukele_fdi_gdp_investment_climate_2019_2024inferred
viainstitutional.rule_of_lawinstitutional.property_rights
PARTIAL — mean_gap=-0.697, |gap|/pre_sd=1.2, p_perm=1 (gap below 0.5×pre_sd or placebo p≥0.10)
partial
The Soviet central-planning system, having already exhibited TFP stagnation 1970-1989, underwent a canonical institutional and economic collapse 1989-1998 as plan-enforcement was withdrawn without functioning market institutions in place.
soviet_union_central_planning_gdp_collapse_1989_1991inferred
viainstitutional.property_rightsfiscal.spending_level
INCONCLUSIVE_DATA_PENDING — no outcome variable loaded; missing: ['derived: count of canonical_metrics with threshold met']
run pending
Zimbabwean property-rights deterioration post-2000 (commercial-farm expropriation without compensation) precedes hyperinflation and output collapse; institutional mechanism is necessary, not merely monetary.
zimbabwe_property_rights_output_linkinferred
viainstitutional.property_rightsinstitutional.rule_of_law
INCONCLUSIVE_DATA_PENDING
run pending
Across emerging-market and developing economies 1990-2020, stronger contract enforcement — measured by years to resolve a commercial dispute, contract-enforcement index, and legal-origin dummies — predicts whether foreign-direct-investment inflows produce productivity spillovers to domestic firms rather than enclave effects.
contract_enforcement_fdi_productivity_spilloversinferred
viainstitutional.rule_of_lawregulatory.sectoral_licensinginstitutional.property_rights
SUPPORTED — coef=+0.1145 (sign matches claim +), p=0.0196
supported
Market-compatible land reforms with compensation show stronger post-reform agricultural investment and productivity recovery than expropriatory reforms.
land_reform_compensation_investment_recoveryinferred
viainstitutional.property_rightsinstitutional.rule_of_lawregulatory.sectoral_licensing
PARTIAL — coef=-0.2293, p=0.881 (above α=0.1); direction inconclusive
partial
Higher transition-era rule-of-law scores are positively associated with higher log GDP per capita within the post-Soviet and Eastern European transition cohort after country and year fixed effects; Estonia/Poland-style inclusive-institution build-out should outperform partial extraction persistence cases such as Russia and Ukraine.
post_soviet_transition_institutional_variationinferred
viainstitutional.rule_of_lawinstitutional.property_rights
PARTIAL — coef=-3.693e-10, p=0.719 (above α=0.1); direction inconclusive
partial

Similar historical policies

Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.

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