Inclusive Capital Fund Pte. Ltd. (DFC-2023-INCLUSIVECAPIT)

Countries
  • Indonesia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Active
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Bank Risk Rating
U
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Borrower
PT Amartha Nusantara Raya
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Finance
  • Industry and Trade
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 20.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 84.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ DFC website

Updated in EWS Jul 30, 2024

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Project Description
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According to the Bank’s website, the proposed $20 million direct loan to a special purpose vehicle by PT Amartha Nusantara Raya, (the “Sponsor”) will be on-lent to women-owned and led microenterprises operating in Indonesia primarily in rural villages of Indonesia, using its digital, peer-to-peer lending platform, owned by its Subsidiary, PT Amartha Mikro Fintek (“AMF”), a “peer-to-peer” or “P2P” lender organized and licensed under Indonesian law that connects lenders with underserved, primarily rural borrowers.

Early Warning System Project Analysis
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Environment and Social Assessment: 4B

Investment Description
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A $20 million direct loan.

Private Actors Description
A Private Actor is a non-governmental body or entity that is the borrower or client of a development project, which can include corporations, private equity and banks. This describes the private actors and their roles in relation to the project, when private actor information is disclosed or has been further researched.

PT Amartha Nusantara Raya (“ANR”) is one of Indonesian’s leading fintech company. ANR owns an operating subsidiary called PT Amartha Mikro Fintek ("AMF"), a micro-finance lending platform that provides loans and other financial inclusion related products to low-income households with limited or no access to financial services. It is mostly active in economically less developed regions of the Indonesian archipelago where it serves around 1 million low-income female borrowers. AMF has operational hubs across Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi, and Nusa Tenggara.

Private Actor 1 Private Actor 1 Role Private Actor 1 Sector Relation Private Actor 2 Private Actor 2 Role Private Actor 2 Sector
- - - - PT Amartha Mikro Fintek Subsidiary -
- - - - PT Amartha Nusantara Raya Investor -

Contact Information
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ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF THE UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FINANCE CORPORATION (DFC)

The Office of Accountability is an independent office that addresses complaints about environmental or social issues related to DFC-supported projects. The office provides communities an opportunity to have concerns independently reviewed and addressed. If you submit a complaint to the Office of Accountability, it may assist you by either seeking to address your problems by facilitating a problem solving dialogue between you and those implementing the project and/or investigating whether the DFC complied with its policies to prevent environmental, social, human rights, and labor harms.

You can find more information about the Office of Accountability at: https://www.dfc.gov/who-we-are/office-accountability

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