Faiz Krisnadi | Thesis Materials

Does the Label Matter? Explaining When Chinese Development Finance and FDI Blur in Indonesian Elite Narratives

Thesis PDF Working draft, Feb 2026 Replication Repo Code, metadata, diagnostics Finance Dashboard Interactive project mapping

Companion page for the thesis on how Indonesian elite narratives collapse Chinese development finance and foreign direct investment into a single category of “Chinese investment.”

Research Summary

Puzzle
Why are development finance and FDI so often collapsed into “Chinese investment” in Indonesian elite narratives?
Argument
Blurring is most likely when state involvement is visible but the underlying exposure is hard to audit.
Evidence
Project mapping, media coding of 762 articles, and elite interviews.

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