JAKARTA -- At the beginning of this month, Jakarta prosecutors paraded three suspects in an alleged $25 million corruption and money laundering scandal involving investment funds at the agriculture startup TaniHub.

Scandals triggered by governance failures at TaniHub and eFishery have plunged Indonesia's startup ecosystem into a funding drought. (Illustration by Yoshiko Kawano)
Experts urge better governance and more hands-on investor oversight to revive ecosystem