Dr James Guild, Adjunct Fellow at RSIS wrote an opinion piece on how Indonesia is no longer content to simply export its raw ore, especially when it has the largest reserves of nickel deposits in the world. Dr Guild said: “Indonesia wants to take a central position in the value-added links in the EV supply chain — from mining the ore, to refining it, to manufacturing the batteries and eventually to building the cars. And because Indonesia controls the raw input, it turns out it has a lot of leverage.”