{"id":37525,"date":"2026-03-24T05:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/37525\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T05:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:08:54","slug":"how-former-glencore-trader-arif-kurniawan-became-indonesias-nickel-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/37525\/","title":{"rendered":"How Former Glencore Trader Arif Kurniawan Became Indonesia’s Nickel King"},"content":{"rendered":"

He\u2019s the biggest trader in the world\u2019s top producer of nickel, a metal that\u2019s powering the shift to batteries and electric cars<\/a>. His firms handle billions of dollars worth of ore and own stakes in mines covering an area around the size of New York City. Yet even in the metals industry, few know the name Arif Kurniawan.<\/p>\n

Indonesia\u2019s nickel sector has seen a dramatic rise in recent years, as technological innovation<\/a> turned vast, low-grade deposits into mining dominance<\/a> and industrial clout<\/a>. Kurniawan\u2019s fortunes have tracked that ascent. In under a decade, he has gone from earning paychecks at Glencore Plc to controlling approximately a third of his country\u2019s domestic trade in nickel ore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He\u2019s the biggest trader in the world\u2019s top producer of nickel, a metal that\u2019s powering the shift to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[190,114,9371,132,352,70,9516,22017,22015,231,1907,3984,22016],"class_list":{"0":"post-37525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glencore","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-exports","11":"tag-glencore","12":"tag-glencore-plc","13":"tag-government","14":"tag-indonesia","15":"tag-jakarta","16":"tag-macquarie-group-ltd","17":"tag-markets","18":"tag-mining-industry","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-wealth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116282429427428132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}