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Building a Bridge for Mangrove Ecotourism

Blog11 October 2024346Views 0Likes 0Comments

Cirebon, 28 September 2024 – Dozens of volunteers from various organizations gathered in neighborhood associations (RW) 09 Kesunean Selatan, Cirebon, to participate in a Waste Cleanup and Mangrove Seedling Planting event aimed at promoting sustainable mangrove conservation. The event was organized by the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), Generasi Energi Bersih (GEN-B) Indonesia, GEN-B…

Strategy to Preserve Mangrove Forest by Establishing Ecotourism Area

Press Release30 September 2024441Views 0Likes 0Comments

Cirebon, September 28, 2024- RW 09 Kesunean Selatan has a mangrove forest area of 7.5 hectares, which can serve as a natural fortress that protects the area from flooding and tidal floods. However, the area continues to shrink due to other pressures, such as clearing paths to the sea, cutting down trees, and expanding settlements…

Energy Transition as an Option that Provides Long-term Economic Benefits

Blog30 September 2024507Views 0Likes 0Comments

Indonesia, as a developing country with the fourth-largest population in the world, continues to strive to maintain its economic growth at 6-7% in order to become a developed nation . To achieve the goal of Indonesia Emas 2045, the eighth elected president, Prabowo Subianto, has even promised to boost economic growth up…

Measuring Indonesia’s Financial Policy Support for Energy Transition

Blog27 September 2024491Views 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 2024393Views 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 2024493Views 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 2024904Views 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 2024507Views 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 2024492Views 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…

Democratizing Energy: Breaking the perpetual reliance on fossil giants

Blog30 August 2024219Views 0Likes 0Comments

It was raining hard in the Cisarua river bank, deep in the Sukabumi Regency, Banten, as we stopped to shelter ourselves in the Ciganas microhydro plant’s slightly wrecked powerhouse. This mere 80 kW-sized power plant is adequate to provide electricity to around 100 houses in the Cipta Rasa Traditional Village ( desa adat ). Since…

Indonesia Energy Transition Dialogue 2024

30 August 2024800Views 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 2024318Views 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…