Indonesia can’t win with Singapore, as it depends on it for petrol, money and even the Internet
- ID
- 40136
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 27 Oct 2026, 10:59 AM
- Fetched
- 28 Oct 2026, 4:02 AM
- Provider
- Vulcan Post
- Category
- malaysia-startup
- Original URL
- https://vulcanpost.com/914115/indonesia-cuts-oil-singapore-who-wins/
- Source URL
- https://vulcanpost.com/feed/
Summary
- Score
- 2.0
- Created
- 28 Oct 2026, 4:02 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- startup_founders
What happened
A guest-contributor opinion piece says Indonesia cut gas deliveries to Singapore by about 9% on Saturday, citing domestic needs after a Batam blackout, shortly after Indonesia’s energy minister threatened a review of exports to countries that ‘disrespect it.’ It argues the move is cushioned because Singapore’s first LNG terminal (built 2010–2013, expanded 2014 and 2018) reduced reliance on Malaysia and Indonesia from 100% to under 50%, so the cut equals only about 2% of Singapore’s daily natural gas consumption; Indonesia still supplies around 30% of Singapore’s gas imports.
Why it matters
There is no concrete action for developers or founders in this text: it is regional energy and haze politics, with no stated change to AI, dev tooling, cloud, payments, or startup policy. The only specific builder-relevant context is dependency planning—Singapore’s LNG diversification turned a 9% delivery cut into roughly 2% of daily gas consumption—but the article does not connect that to data centers, cloud pricing, or Malaysian startup opportunities.
Discussion angle
Use it as a short live analogy: should SEA founders diversify critical dependencies like cloud, payments, and telco so a 9% shock becomes a 2% problem—or is this too far from product decisions to matter?