Paloma Sjahrir Foundation was honored to take part in YCAB Foundation’s Impact Investment Festival 2026, held at the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) Main Hall on 13 August 2026. The one-day festival brought together regulators, capital market players, investors, financial institutions, and social organizations to explore how investment can drive both economic value and social and environmental impact.
The numbers point to an ecosystem entering a new phase of maturity. Data from Trimegah Sekuritas showed that as of March 2026, Indonesia counted 28 impact-focused mutual funds managing roughly Rp17 trillion in assets, alongside 29 impact bonds and sukuk worth around Rp57 trillion, spanning education, women’s empowerment, MSMEs, healthcare, climate, and affordable housing. That makes Indonesia one of Southeast Asia’s most active impact investing markets, with over USD 1.5 billion deployed through more than 100 active capital providers. Yet growth has outpaced connection: investors, products, institutions, and social organizations still operate in largely disconnected silos, making impact harder to find and scale.
Across two plenary sessions, the Festival opened that conversation: how can capital markets play a greater role in expanding impact investing in Indonesia? Both sessions pointed to the same answer: channel long-term capital directly into sectors with real development needs, and scale impact investment products so more investors, not just institutions, can participate. Making that work will take stronger collaboration between fund owners, financial markets, businesses, and the social sector.
That call for collaboration carried into the closing remarks. Ratna Kartadjoemena, Chairperson of Paloma Sjahrir Foundation, shared: “We believe events like the Impact Investment Festival matter deeply, as impact investing in Indonesia needs a space where different players across the ecosystem can actually meet and connect.”
As a co-sponsor, Paloma Sjahrir Foundation hosted the closing Networking Reception, giving participants room to continue the conversation and build lasting collaborations.
The work ahead is building an ecosystem that is more open, more connected, and better able to match funding sources with solutions that benefit people and the planet. Impact investing is not just about where the capital goes, but about what grows from there and how many lives move forward because of it.
