Indonesia coal industry

The move was less about coal shortages than about reminding Indonesia's private sector who is in charge.

The move speaks to the political and economic importance of coal, and the difficulty Indonesia will have in organizing a transition to renewable energy.

Renewable energy is a tough sell as long as regional states exert control over (and profit from) domestic fossil fuel resources.

The hard political choices involved in phasing out coal and reducing emissions are the most important, and also the most often elided, element.

If things don’t change, the world’s most ignored big emitter could be the one that dooms the global climate.

Asia's sudden shift away from coal and toward renewable energy will have a global impact.

A new report finds that the country’s coal reserves could be depleted in the next two or three decades.