An independent advisory practice

Vantara Advisory is a boutique advisory and legal practice in Jakarta, acting for shareholders, boards, and investors on transactions where the legal, regulatory, and commercial outcomes can't be separated. We concentrate on mergers and acquisitions, legal due diligence, and cross-border structuring, and we stay deliberately small — every mandate is led by a senior practitioner from first call to completion. We work in English and Bahasa Indonesia, translating Indonesian regulatory reality into terms an offshore investor, lender, or parent company can act on.

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Why Vantara Advisory

Senior attention

The person who scopes your matter is the person who does the work. No file is passed down to be learned from scratch.

Regulator-fluent

We work with Indonesian licensing, capital markets, and sector regulation as a matter of routine — not as an unfamiliar overlay on a deal.

Commercially anchored

Advice is written to support a decision. Where the law is unclear, we say so, and say what we would do about it.

Industries We Serve

Where our experience runs deepest

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Plantations & Agriculture
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Hospitality
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Financial Services
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Healthcare
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Manufacturing
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Oleochemicals
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Logistics & Transportation

Meet Our Team

The people behind every engagement.

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Sulthan Muhammad Yusa

Managing Director

Education

  • Master of International Business, University of Melbourne
  • Accounting, University of Indonesia
  • Accounting, STAN

Experience

  • Senior roles at the Ministry of Finance, BPDPKS, and PIP
  • Public investment, palm-oil funding, biodiesel, and strategic planning
  • Strengths in public-finance advisory, fund and program design, investment and risk analysis, and sustainable finance execution
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Fajril Amirul

Commissioner

Education

  • Master of Management (Finance), University of Melbourne
  • Postgraduate Diploma in International Finance, University of Buckingham
  • Accounting, University of Indonesia
  • Diploma III Accounting, STAN

Experience

  • General Manager at PT Dana Brata Luhur Tbk
  • BPDPKS senior management overseeing IDR 8T+ programs
  • Infrastructure due diligence and project finance at the Indonesia Investment Agency
  • Strengths in infrastructure finance, PPP, investment due diligence, and financial modelling
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John Amir Daniel Johnson

Director

Education

  • LLM Competition Law, University of Amsterdam
  • LLB International and European Law, University of Groningen
  • International Baccalaureate, British School Jakarta

Experience

  • Senior Legal Advisor and Directors' Office Special Staff at PT Tribhakti Inspektama
  • Junior Legal Analyst at OJK
  • Cross-border fund structuring, corporate restructuring, permits, and transaction support
  • Strengths in legal-regulatory strategy, transaction structuring, and policy and ESG/compliance positioning

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