Fabby Tumiwa

Awaiting the Decision of WTO Appeal Against The Trade Lawsuit between Indonesia and the European Union

Jakarta, April 3, 2023 - The process of submitting an appeal by Indonesia against the World Trade Organization (WTO) decision regarding the nickel ore export ban is ongoing. The government introduced an appeal against the WTO decision on December 8, 2022, stating that the export ban and downstream nickel policy violated international trade rules. However,…

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Kontan | IESR Launches Simulation Tool to Calculate Energy Generation Costs

The Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) launched a report entitled Making Energy Transition Succeed: A 2023's Update on The Levelized Cost of Electricity and Levelized Cost of Storage in Indonesia and a web-based simulation tool accessible to the public to estimate energy generation costs for each technology generation and storage of energy. Read more on Kontan.

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative Opportunities in Accelerating the Energy Transition in Indonesia

Beijing, March 27, 2023 - The Executive Director of the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), Fabby Tumiwa, highlighted that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) allowed China to play a role in accelerating the energy transition in Indonesia. He mentioned this as a guest speaker promoting green and low carbon transition in BRI participating…

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Mitigating the Risk of DME Project Failure by Encouraging the Adoption of Induction Electric Stoves

Jakarta, 17 March 2023 - The decision by Air Products and Chemicals Inc (APC), a company from the United States, to withdraw from the coal gasification project consortium in Indonesia will affect the plan to substitute Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) with 1.4 million metric tons/year of Dimethyl Ether (DME) results from coal gasification or equivalent…

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