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Indonesia
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29 December 2025, 04:30 AM
How a Reclusive Ex-Glencore Trader Became Indonesia’s Nickel King
Arif Kurniawan’s fortunes and influence have risen with those of the Southeast Asian nation’s fast-expanding metals industry.
He’s the biggest trader in the world’s top producer of nickel, a metal that’s powering the shift to batteries and electric cars. 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.
Indonesia’s nickel sector has seen a dramatic rise in recent years, as technological innovation turned vast, low-grade deposits into mining dominance and industrial clout. Kurniawan’s 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’s domestic trade in nickel ore.
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