Indonesia energy

Jakarta needs to ensure that the dozens of villages reliant on the coal mining economy are not left behind by its renewable energy transition.

The agreements were an important step for the country, a major exporter of coal that has abundant green energy potential.

But Jakarta is likely to weigh carefully the domestic political benefits of cheap oil against possible international blowback.

State subsidies help keep energy affordable for low-income Indonesians. They may also be holding up its green energy transition.

The firm's CEO said that the firm should take advantage of the plummeting prices for Russian crude oil.

Russia's invasion has exposed the country's vulnerability to shocks in the global energy markets.

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

A new solar farm project could avoid the political economy hurdle that has prevented renewable energy from making headway in the country.

President Jokowi's administration seems poised to break through the regulatory bottlenecks that have long held back the country's renewable energy ambitions.

The state utility PLN might have unwittingly side-stepped a common pitfall of tariff feed-in schemes.

The country has abundant resources of biomass, a great potential source of renewable energy.