Notes Archives - WMK [associates]

2 August 2018

Impact Investment?

Posted By Arief Wicaksono

This afternoon I was involved in an interesting discussion with Rezal Kusumaatmadja and Wahyu Mulyana, two partners at WMK [associates], about impact investment. Critically Rezal highlights what impact investment really is from an investor perspective. There are a number of critical notes that turn out to be in line with what I have always believed.

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31 July 2018

Another Perspective on Sustainable Investment – It’s About Trust

Posted By Arief Wicaksono

Continuing the previous note of sustainable investment, it seems necessary to also discuss the sections related to the logic of financial circulation. Investors are always thinking about the profits they must earn from each investment. So the question is, how sustainable investment can answer the question easily, considering the criteria that have been discussed in

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31 July 2018

Perspective on Sustainable Investment – It’s About People

Posted By Arief Wicaksono

Sustainable investment is essentially about sowing the right people, not a pretty and good proposal. How to find people who have integrity and at the same time really need financial support for the initiative. An assessment of the initiative can be done later, if we really get the right person. All criteria on sustainability that have

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31 July 2018

Meaningful Investment with Appropriate Knowledge

Posted By Arief Wicaksono

Spatial planning is an econometric tool for State policy-makers. Spatial use is used to make decisions regarding the allocation of areas for social and economic development. The question, however, is the level of conformity between the reality in the field and the information on paper, so that the decisions made are really useful.

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18 July 2018

Liberating the Earth from Synthetic Chemicals

Posted By Arief Wicaksono

Nico Wanandy, one of our associates, is a researcher from the University of New South Wales Sydney at the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science. Since 2015 Nico Wanandy has intensified the fertility recovery program of degraded land in Indonesia due to the use of chemical fertilizers and / or a combination of other factors

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28 February 2018

Researching with curiosity vs. presenting a “fast-food” report

Posted By Arief Wicaksono

Research is a fundamental need for a sensible decision-making process. Decision making is always facing uncertainty. There has never been a decision taken in which all factors can be fully controlled. These factors are the focus of a research, related to the decision-making process. Because research is an activity that relies heavily on curiosity, the very first step

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2 February 2018

Finally we’re online!

Posted By Arief Wicaksono

Viola! Our website goes online through long discussion since the company founded in early 2017. Through this blog we’d like to describe our common beliefs on how to progress viable local social, ecological and economic development in Indonesia. So, this is just the first article to inform you our progress to date with regards to

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