Bakrie Group

In 2019, Bakrie Group made an undisclosed investment in BumiLangit Studios, an Indonesian character-based entertainment company in Indonesia. The investment was made by VIVA group, who are currently focusing on developing Indonesia's own superhero cinematic universe through the library and intellectual property rights of BumiLangit Studios. The first movie in line, Gundala, released in August 2019, was a theater hit grossing 48.3 billion Rupiah (US$3 million).

In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bakrie & Brothers of Bakrie Group furloughed 153 of its staff for at least 3 months. Additionally, the company also introduced salary reduction plans affecting 800 employees in their attempt to reduce financial burdens due to limited business activity.

Gebang PSC, North Sumatra

Kangean PSC, East Java

Korinci Baru PSC, Riau

Malacca Strait PSC, Sumatra

Sangatta II CBM PSC, East Kalimantan

Tonga PSC, Sumatra

Bakrie group's mining business, PT. Lapindo Brantas, caused an erupting mud volcano in the Sidoarjo mud flow disaster that displaced more than 40,000 people in Indonesia's East Java province. After investigations by independent experts, the police concluded that the mudflow was an "underground blowout" triggered by the drilling activity. It was further noted that steel-encasing lining had not been used, which could have prevented the disaster. Thirteen Lapindo Brantas executives and engineers faced twelve charges of violating Indonesian laws.

Media and entertainment

Bakrie Group owns PT Visi Media Asia Tbk (VIVA), which has interests in Free to Air (FTA) TV networks with antv, tvOne, VTV, and in digital media portal viva.co.id.

Agribusiness

Through PT. Bakrie Sumatra Plantations Tbk (IDX: UNSP), Bakrie Group manages an estimated 100,000 hectares (ha) of rubber and palm oil plantations on the island of Sumatra. Bakrie Sumatera Plantations Tbk (BSP) is a subsidiary of Bakrie Group.

BSP has extensive landbanks.

One of its directors is Bungaran Saragih, a former minister of agriculture.

It operates or used to operate on peatlands.

Infrastructure

Through Bakrie & Brothers, Bakrie Group is involved in transportation, water, electricity, and industrial projects in Indonesia through several of its subsidiaries. From the 1990s, the Group worked to build a 600MW coal-fired power station, "Tanjung Jati A", in Central Java. This plant had an estimated build cost of $2.8 billion and the group would hold 20% of the equity. As late as 2019, the government of Indonesia still included the project on their National Electricity Supply Business Plan (RUPTL). In 2022, the project's environmental permit was revoked by the State Administrative Court of Bandung in response to a legal challenge from WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia). This decision was not appealed by the project's sponsors before the deadline, so its current status remains cancelled.

Its subsidiary VKTR is the sole brand distributing agent (agen tunggal pemegang merek, ATPM) for BYD electric buses procured by Transjakarta, as the bus operator targeted a 100% electric-powered fleet by 2030. It provided complete built up (CBU) units imported from China as well as chasis to be assembled by local bus body builders such as Laksana.