Kathleen Cateliya

Associate

Ms. Kathleen Cateliya is a talented and promising young lawyer, with almost 4 years of experience assisting clients in various technology, media and telecommunications (TMT), financial technology and M&A transactions.

Kathleen Cateliya obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree from Universitas Indonesia and her master’s degree from Universitas Pelita Harapan. She was also an ASEAN Youth Ambassador where she had actively represented Indonesia in International Youth Forums held under the auspices of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Since joining Walalangi & Partners, she has been involved in numerous deals and transactions including:

  • Counsel to PT Bina Mitra Sehati, a prominent telecommunication infrastructure company specializing in providing telecommunication towers, as well as outdoor and indoor building coverage (IBC) across Indonesia in structuring and negotiating transaction documents for the multi-stages sale of its existing and under-construction telecommunication tower infrastructures to PT Centratama Menara Indonesia, a telecommunication tower infrastructures provider, with a purchase price of at least IDR 240,052,680,000.
  • Advising multiple key stakeholders on Indonesia’s Gaming Industry Regulation, including the working group of the Ministry of Creative Economy/Creative Economy Agency of the Republic of Indonesia (formerly the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy), on a groundbreaking initiative to strengthen Indonesia’s gaming ecosystem. The contribution involved preparation of a comprehensive technical study and drafting the implementing regulation for an inclusive payment system on game distribution platforms, as mandated by Presidential Regulation No. 19 of 2024 on the Acceleration of National Game Industry Development. The implementing regulation is designed to create regulatory certainty for inclusive electronic payment systems, ensuring greater participation and equal opportunities for local businesses in Indonesia’s payment channel ecosystem, which in turn accelerating the growth of the nation’s gaming industry.
  • Counsel to PT Dhost Telekomunikasi Nusantara in its acquisition and lease back of indoor telecommunication infrastructure assets located at 850 sites across Indonesia from PT Telekomunikasi Selular (IOH) one of the largest cellular telecommunications networks and services providers in Indonesia. The acquisition marks another significant milestone for Dhost as they further expand their indoor management portfolio of telecommunication infrastructure assets throughout Indonesia. It also reinforces their unwavering commitment to support Tsel and other telecommunications network and services providers in delivering reliable networks, leveraging dhost’s advanced neutral hosting technology.
  • Advising a fortune global 500 Japanese corporation having presence in more 65 countries in its potential carbon reduction and climate change mitigation project through natural forest and mangrove plantation in Indonesia.
  • Counsel to one of the largest Japanese trading companies in its pilot smart city project in a Greater Jakarta Area, focusing on legal requirements for online platform, personal data  processing and data transfer.
  • Counsel to Mitsubishi Corporation and Sinar Mas Land on the inauguration of the PoC of Indonesia’s first autonomous electric vehicle at Q-Big BSD City, using first intelligent transportation system of French-made shuttle bus Navya Arma. The 15-passenger self-driving electric vehicle has a battery capacity of 33 kWh and is equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) and Light Radar (LIDAR) sensor. This goes in parallel with the vision of G20, i.e., to go towards smart green cities, more low-carbon mobility, and less traffic congestion.
  • Advising a Japanese-affiliated company on Indonesian law aspects in relation to its proposed establishment and development of internet-based platform to be used for holding cross-border e-sport tournaments, particularly, with respect to its proposed business model and payment arrangements, including the use of digital currency, such as cryptocurrency, and limitations on its use, as well as advising on compliance issues, including, personal data protection rules, creditworthiness scoring activities under OJK regulations, and obligations of an electronic system operator.
  • Advising an emerging Indonesian marketplace platform start-up that facilitates small-medium size enterprises in selling their products online and help them with bookkeeping – in relation to (i) analysis of data collection and storage, payment initiation, administration and verification of source of fund, e-money issuance, (ii) structuring its existing business activities and key licensing requirements, (iii) payment services provider (PSP) license, scope of activities, shareholding and voting rights of foreign shareholders and capitalization and (iv) analysis on its share acquisitions plan of PSP companies.
  • Advising one of the most rapid growing technology and game companies based in the US, with approximately 36.2 million daily users, on various Indonesian regulatory matters to include gaming regulations, gaming applications rating, registration requirements, content requirements and restrictions as well as personal data protection.
  • Advising a leading Japanese video game developer and publisher listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (CCOEF) with headquarter in Osaka, on Indonesian regulatory matters relating to progressive business model development plan, including online games offerings, digital currency and payments, loot box features, business and games rating registration requirements, consumer protection, and personal data privacy rules.

Seminar:

  • A co-speaker on “Personal Data Protection” at in-house seminar of Astra and Toyota group companies in 2024. The in-house seminar helped Astra and Toyota group companies to navigate the safeguard personal data processing, especially in relation to the compliance of personal data sharing and role of data protection officer.