How do organizations finance sustainability when returns are uncertain? What enables firms to act virtuously under financial pressure? Can circular systems extend resource availability before depletion becomes irreversible?

This collection of ten Indonesian teaching cases addresses these questions through enterprises confronting real strategic dilemmas: from a wooden craft social enterprise weighing community production against certification requirements, to a cosmetics corporation donating IDR 40 billion during a pandemic-induced revenue collapse, to mining stakeholders anticipating nickel depletion in the EV battery transition.

Organized across three thematic sections—Financing Sustainability, Virtuous Organizations, and Circularity & Future Systems—the cases span small-enterprises to publicly listed corporations, artisanal batik workshops to coal-mining operations. Each presents tensions that resist clean resolution: authenticity versus scale, ethics versus market survival, short-term viability versus long-term resilience.

Designed for business school students, this volume elicits frameworks for business strategy and moral reasoning under uncertainty, and situates sustainability discussions within the institutional realities of an emerging economy. The cases encourage thorough analysis of the trade-offs that shape modern sustainability practices.