All research

Commodities

Indonesia’s 2026 Nickel Policy: Battery Metals and Trade Flows

How Jakarta’s resource nationalism is reshaping EV supply chains, LME pricing and the geopolitics of critical minerals, and where capital should be positioned.

By K2 Research TeamMar 1, 2026PDF · 8 pages

How Jakarta’s resource nationalism is reshaping EV supply chains, LME pricing and the geopolitics of critical minerals, and where capital should be positioned.

What’s inside

  1. Indonesia’s policy architecture: from ore exporter to industrial power
  2. Global supply dominance: a 62% market share and rising
  3. Price dynamics: surplus reality and the path to rebalancing
  4. Trade flows and geopolitical fault lines
  5. Battery chemistry: the LFP challenge and nickel’s demand floor
  6. Investment implications: positioning for the second-order effects
  7. Key risks to the thesis
  8. Conclusion: sovereignty, surplus and the survivor trade