Come Now or Never
Nobody said it with those exact words. That is the point.
When a Finance Minister flies to New York and tells BlackRock, HSBC, and Lazard that their concerns about Indonesia's fiscal direction are "noise" — he is not making a pitch. He is setting a condition.
When a President stands before parliament and says of his country's largest export commodity: "If they do not want to buy, then we will use our palm oil ourselves" — he is not making a threat. He is informing the market of a structural change that is already underway.
UN Comtrade data shows a $908 billion gap between what Indonesia reported as commodity exports and what trading partners reported as imports — accumulated over 34 years. Indonesia is now building the instrument to close it. The window for entering as a partner is specific, verifiable, and closing.
This is not a sales pitch. It is a closing window.