Megawati Wijaya
Megawati is a Lloyd's List senior reporter based in Singapore.
Megawati has more than 12 years of experience in business and financial journalism. Prior to joining Lloyd's List, she was a senior reporter at Debtwire, covering distressed debt, restructuring, and special situations in Indonesia and Singapore. Before that, she was a senior correspondent with Metal Bulletin, reporting on Southeast Asia's steel and base metals news and prices.
As a freelance contributor for Asia Times Online, she has reported on Singapore's watershed general election 2011, the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, and the discrimation faced by the LGBT community in Indonesia, among others.
Megawati has a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. She speaks English, Bahasa Indonesia, Malay, and some Mandarin, and is learning Oriya.
Latest From Megawati Wijaya
CMA CGM container depot in Indonesia reaches operational milestone
The depot has handled five times more average monthly container volume in the first quarter
Monthly steel exports fall by 1m tonnes due to Ukraine war
Ukraine was the world’s fourth-largest exporter of iron ore, second-largest exporter of pig iron and third-largest exporter of semi-finished steel
China’s flat steel demand set for small recovery in 2023
Any rise in steel demand will be dependent on the extent of China curtailing its draconian lockdown measures, its stimulus measures and the way it pursues decarbonisation, according to the World Steel Association
Seaborne iron ore supplies set to decline
Assuming Black Sea iron ore exports are down 30m tonnes, and accounting for losses already this year in Australia and Brazil, then global iron ore export looks set to be lower year on year
India demands more Russian coal amid supply disruptions
India almost doubled its import of Russian coal in the first quarter of this year, to 2.2m tonnes
RCL says vessel arrested in Indonesia was carrying palm oil approved for export
All 34 containers on board the vessel Mathu Bhum contain palm oil. Regional Container Lines says all of these were custom-approved for export on April 25 and April 26