American electric carmaker Tesla has signed contracts worth several billion U.S. dollars to purchase nickel from two companies in Indonesia, a government minister in Jakarta said Monday.

For millions of villagers in Indonesia’s remote areas, a 12-hour-per-day erratic electricity supply is the norm. With students studying by candlelight at night and health centres not running at full capacity, these communities face an uphill struggle to improve their well-being.

Indonesia’s Ministry of Industry, Mr. Airlangga Hartarto, announced that the government has decided to open up its doors to investment in the manufacturing of electric vehicles. The decision was designed to boost green energy utilisation across the country and reduce reliance on imports of fossil fuels. The government has also recently strengthened its green vehicles […]

Indonesia is one of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases, but manages to fly well below the radar. World leaders are gathered this month in Katowice, Poland, for COP24, the most important global meeting on climate change since the 2015 UN Climate Conference in Paris. At the top of agenda: getting countries to agree on […]

In an article shared by global engineering, management and development consultancy Matt MacDonald, the company reports on its work on the Rantau Dedap geothermal power project by Supreme Energy in Sumatra. When the project that is to be starting operation in 2020 will go online it will provide “lasting social dividends, as well as 90 […]

With the nation among the world’s top ten greenhouse gas emitting states, energy analysts from three policy advisories have spelled out how Jakarta could hit net zero by mid century rather than 2070, as currently planned. However, the energy transition would require uncharacteristically long term thinking.

JAKARTA – President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo showed off Indonesia’s plan to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy at the Group of 20 Summit in Bali last November, announcing a new energy transition mechanism to achieve a target of 34 percent renewable energy mix by 2030, compared with a mere 11 percent at present.