The Jakarta Post
Writing in The Jakarta Post, BCG’s Nicolas Meyer and Andrey Berdichevskiy discuss the opportunities for electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) to revolutionize transportation in Indonesia. While eVTOLs won’t replace conventional helicopters, electric air mobility offers fast, clean transportation—allowing emergency medical services to bypass traffic congestion in cities like Jakarta, and disaster relief efforts to better deploy supplies and specialists to and from affected areas. Indonesia can also emerge as a manufacturing hub for eVTOL components and vehicles, they say, but the country must first overcome challenges in regulation, infrastructure, and manufacturing.