Forging Ties, DDTC Hands Over Tax Books to University of Hong Kong
HONG KONG, DDTCNews – DDTC has further expanded its international academic network through a visit to the Faculty of Law at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). During the visit, four DDTC professionals presented a selection of Indonesian taxation publications to Associate Professor Wilson Wai-shun Chow of the HKU Faculty of Law.
The four DDTC professionals were DDTC Consulting Partner Yusuf Wangko Ngantung, DDTC Consulting Tax Director Cindy Kikhonia Febby, DDTC Consulting Senior Manager Khisi Armaya Dhora and DDTC Corporate Communication Lead Idznila Shabrina.
The DDTC publications were received by Wilson Chow's secretary, Candy Ip, who would subsequently pass them on to the HKU academic.
The publications presented included the DDTC Indonesian Tax Manual 2025: Embarking on the Era of Coretax and Global Minimum Tax, DDTC Indonesian Transfer Pricing Manual as well as The Consolidation in a Single Text of the General Provisions & Tax Procedures, Income Tax and Value Added Tax Law Pursuant to Law 6/2023 with Adjustments to the Criminal Provisions under the GPTP Law Pursuant to Law 1/2026.
All three publications cover various aspects of the Indonesian tax system, including developments in tax administration through coretax, the global minimum tax, transfer pricing and the consolidation of statutory provisions in the field of taxation.
DDTC Founder, Darussalam, noted that the publications issued by DDTC are not solely intended to enrich Indonesia's tax literature. The English-language publications are also hoped to serve as a bridge for the international tax community to discover and understand the Indonesian tax system.
"We hope that DDTC's works for Indonesia will also prove beneficial to international professionals and academics. We examine various Indonesian tax regulations and present them in a systematic manner to make them more accessible, including when they require a reference for benchmarking or comparative studies involving the Indonesian jurisdiction," said Darussalam.
The presentation of publications to Wilson Chow is also relevant given his academic background in taxation. According to information on the HKU Faculty of Law's official website, Wilson Chow joined the faculty in 1995 as the first local full-time lecturer in Hong Kong tax law at the Department of Professional Legal Education.
His teaching and research areas encompass the tax system and policy of Hong Kong and China, as well as international taxation.
In addition, Wilson Chow is a fellow at HKU's Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL). Taxation law and policy is also one of his research focuses, and he is involved in various activities of the Taxation Law Research Programme (TLRP) under the AIIFL.
"Thank you to DDTC for the books of accounts provided. We are very open to future collaboration," said Candy Ip, representing Wilson Chow.
Through this presentation of publications, DDTC hopes that literature on the Indonesian tax system will become increasingly accessible to the international academic and professional community. This initiative is also intended to open avenues for the exchange of knowledge regarding developments in the Indonesian tax system with academics from various jurisdictions.
This presentation of publications to academics in Hong Kong continues DDTC's efforts to introduce Indonesian tax literature to the global academic community. Previously, DDTC has also presented publications to a number of overseas academics, including Professor Stephen Barkoczy of Monash University in Australia and Dr Mart van Hulten of Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
Beyond academics, DDTC's publications have also become part of the collections of several international university libraries. In September 2025, for instance, the DDTC Indonesian Tax Manual 2025: Embarking on the Era of Coretax and Global Minimum Tax and the DDTC Indonesian Transfer Pricing Manual were donated to the collections of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and King's College London.
Efforts to broaden access to this tax literature are also supported by DDTC Library in Jakarta. To date, DDTC Library holds a total of 5,078 items of literature supporting the study of taxation as a multidisciplinary field, and has received a MURI record as the Tax Library with the Largest Collection in Indonesia on 10 July 2026.
The visit to HKU formed part of the agenda of four DDTC professionals during their time in Hong Kong to attend the IFLR Asia-Pacific Awards with ITR. DDTC's presence at the event follows the firm's receipt of 6 nominations at the ITR Asia-Pacific Awards 2026.
For DDTC, the presence in Hong Kong represents not only an opportunity to engage with the professional tax community in the Asia-Pacific region, but also to strengthen ties with the international academic environment. This step is consistent with DDTC's efforts to build a global network whilst promoting the exchange of knowledge on Indonesian taxation at the international level.