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resident Prabowo’s sovereign wealth fund promises to reverse decades of premature deindustrialization and power an eight percent growth miracle. But if its capital flows into commodity pipelines instead of factory floors, Indonesia may be fast-tracking itself toward the very trap it is trying to escape.
In recent months, prediction markets like Polymarket have shattered taboos by letting users bet on geopolitical violence – and some of those bets have been chillingly prescient. As The Atlantic bluntly warned, “Insider trading is going to get people killed” because these “war markets are a national-security threat.”.