Danantara Indonesia will invest $20 billion in a wide range of projects from metal processing to artificial intelligence, President Prabowo Subianto said on Monday, as he launched the country's new sovereign wealth fund.

Indonesia’s Prabowo officially establishes Danantara, which is modelled on Singapore’s investment arm Temasek.

JAKARTA – Indonesia launched its new sovereign wealth fund Danantara on Feb 24, the latest initiative by President Prabowo Subianto to deliver on his ambitious economic growth target of 8 per cent within his first term.

He wants to tap into the fund's assets -- planned to be more than $900 billion -- to boost Indonesia to developed economy status, despite expert concern about its governance.

JAKARTA] Indonesia launched the Danantara investment fund on Monday (Feb 24), a high-stakes, multi-billion-dollar initiative designed to consolidate the country’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs), while serving as a powerful catalyst to attract investment and fuel the nation’s ambitious growth trajectory.

President Prabowo Subianto on Monday signed a regulation that officially established a new sovereign wealth fund, "Danantara Indonesia", which will hold government stakes in state firms and is intended to operate like Singapore's investment arm Temasek.