Onsight.
The system behind our work.
Onsight is Cascade Asia’s intelligence platform, now under development. It is being built to bring our field research and the evidence behind it together, so that what we learn can be checked, dated and built on, and in time shared more directly with clients.
Onsight Briefs.
The part of Onsight we publish today: research briefs drawing on field reporting and documentary evidence.
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The Control Layer
Danantara’s role in Indonesia’s strategic-commodity exports
How Danantara’s export company could influence commodity transactions before becoming their contractual seller, and what remains unproven ahead of the 1 January 2027 implementation target.
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Danantara
Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund and its subsidiaries
Sets what officials state against what the documentary and field evidence shows.
How we publish.
Evidence, dated
Each brief states its evidence cutoff and distinguishes documented facts, source accounts and our judgments.
Corrections on the record
When we correct a brief, we say what changed and when.
Independent
We hold no position in what we cover, and coverage cannot be bought.
Discuss an assignment.
Tell us the subject, the countries involved and the information needed.