Post signs pact with Kadin Indonesia to set up platform for events, dialogue to foster trade
The two parties will advance a range of initiatives, including a China Conference: Southeast Asia in Jakarta in early 2026
The Post, which has been covering China from Hong Kong since its first front page was published in November 1903, will leverage its editorial authority, convening power and international readership, while Kadin Indonesia will mobilise the nation’s business leadership and provide access to its network of enterprises.
The two parties will be equal partners in advancing a range of initiatives, according to the memorandum that was signed on Saturday in Jakarta. The two parties are in active talks to curate a list of topics and speakers for the Post’s flagship “China Conference: Southeast Asia” to be held in Jakarta – the first time for the annual event in Indonesia – in early 2026, said the Post’s Executive Managing Editor Zuraidah Ibrahim.
The expansion by the Post into Southeast Asia underscores a push by Hong Kong’s sole English-language broadsheet newspaper to serve the needs of its worldwide readership at a time of closer trade and investment links between the region and the Chinese mainland.
“Our journalists have worked hard to develop the Post as a trusted voice delivering credible coverage of Southeast Asia as well as the region’s ties with China, and we see this initiative as one marker of our success,” Zuraidah said.