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Measuring Indonesia’s Financial Policy Support for Energy Transition

Blog27 September 2024197Views 0Likes 0Comments

New York, September 24, 2024 - The energy transition has become a crucial global agenda as an effort to mitigate climate change and prevent the world from greater climate change impacts if the 1.5-degree temperature increase limit (Paris Agreement) is exceeded. Indonesia as a signatory to the Paris Agreement has set this commitment through Law…

Encouraging Renewable Energy Development Through Joint Transmission Utilization

Press Release26 September 2024225Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 25 September 2024 - The establishment of a transmission network joint utilization scheme (wheeling) to accelerate the utilization of renewable energy in the New Energy and Renewable Energy Bill (EBET Bill) is still being discussed by the government and the House of Representatives (DPR). The Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) encourages the implementation…

ASEAN Readiness to Welcome the Energy Transition Era

Event Coverage20 September 2024172Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, September 18, 2024 - ASEAN is a forum for inter-governmental cooperation that carries various priority issues. In Laos' chairmanship in 2024, the issue of energy transition is still one of the priority issues that ASEAN has raised again. Decarbonization of the energy sector, as a low-hanging fruit sector, has the potential to provide a…

ISEW 2024: Advancing a Golden Indonesia through a Just Energy Transition

Press Release10 September 2024574Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, September 10, 2024 - Indonesia envisions becoming one of the world's largest economies by 2045, known as Golden Indonesia. To achieve developed nation status, the country requires sustainable high economic growth and a reduction in GHG emissions to reach net zero by 2060 or sooner. One of the efforts to achieve Golden Indonesia 2045…

Global Businesses Call on Indonesia’s Government to Unlock the Country’s Renewables Investment Potential

Press Release9 September 2024255Views 0Likes 0Comments

Large international companies have strongly encouraged the country to increase its renewables target, allow more renewable sourcing options for corporates, and use these options to better channel private investment into quicker renewable energy roll out. Strong leadership on climate change will enhance Indonesia’s geopolitical standing, drive sustainable economic growth, and encourage substantial skilled job creation,…

IESR Recommendations for an Ambitious, Fair, Credible, and Transparent SNDC

Press Release30 August 2024210Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, August 30, 2024 - The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) has submitted an initial draft of the Second Nationally Determined Contribution (SNDC) or Second NDC document at a public consultation (08/20/2024). Looking at the SNDC draft, the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) assesses that Indonesia's climate target has not shown the most…

Indonesia Energy Transition Dialogue 2024

30 August 2024454Views 0Likes 0Comments

Introduction Indonesia Energy Transition Dialogue (IETD) 2024 is an annual dialogue event organized by the Indonesia Clean Energy Forum (ICEF) in collaboration with the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR). In 2024, IETD has been held since 2018 and its seventh edition has once again become a national discussion platform for policy makers, business leaders,…

Regional Dialogue: Decarbonizing the Power Sector in Southeast Asia

Event Coverage30 August 2024149Views 0Likes 0Comments

Bali, August 26, 2024 - Southeast Asia (SEA) is forecasted to be the 4th biggest economic powerhouse in the world by 2050, with GDP to triple from 3.1 trillion in 2021 to 10.5 trillion in 2050 ( ACE, 2022 ). With that ample economic growth, energy consumption is also realistically predicted to triple from 473.1…

Youth Voices for Climate

Event Coverage6 August 2024198Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, July 27, 2024 - Children born in 2020 will experience disasters more often than previous generations. Rising global temperatures trigger climate-related hydrometeorological disasters such as floods, landslides, and tidal floods, which are projected to occur more frequently. This will lead to an increase in the phenomenon of climate refugees and other hydrometeorological disasters. Young…

Wira A Swadana, Manajer Program Ekonomi Hijau, IESR

Imagining a Picture of a Just Transition in Indonesia

Event Coverage29 July 2024205Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 25 July 2024 - A just transition in Indonesia currently does not have a mutually agreed definition. The absence of this definition has resulted in uncertainty and a lack of uniformity in the focus of just transition initiatives and movements. The availability of an operational definition is expected to maximize the opportunities for energy…

Realizing Inclusive Participation in the Energy Transition

Blog26 July 2024175Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, July 18, 2024 - The energy transition is inevitable. Technological advances make clean technology that produces renewable energy continuously affordable. The challenge of large upfront costs for the energy transition requires an inclusive strategy that can embrace all groups. Energy is a necessity for everyone and is the driving force of the economy, requiring…

Defining Just Transition for Indonesian Context

Event Coverage19 July 2024244Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 15 July 2024 - Just transition has become a widely discussed topic after the issue of energy transition was widely articulated. The idea of a just transition began in the 80s when the United States Government issued regulations on water and air pollution, ordering fossil, oil and gas companies to clean up their production…