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Indonesia Needs Inter-island Electricity Interconnection for 100 Percent Renewable Energy Development

Blog26 January 2022235Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 26 January 2022 - The energy sector which is dominated by fossil energy accounts for ⅔ of global emissions. In order to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions exponentially, massive use of renewable energy is an important thing to do. One of the efforts to empower 100 percent of the technical potential of renewable energy,…

Overseeing the Indonesia Government’s Strategy in Energy Transition in 2022

Press Release21 January 2022163Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 18 January 2022 - Entering 2022, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources shared Indonesia's energy transition strategy in the "Press Conference on 2021 Performance Achievements and the 2022 Work Plan for Energy and Mineral Resources and the EBTKE Subsector". The Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) views that even though the direction…

Indonesia’s Energy Transition Overshadowed by Government Uncertainty

Event Coverage21 December 202197Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, December 21, 2021 - Closing 2021, the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) has launched its annual report entitled Indonesia Energy Transition Outlook (IETO) 2022. Since 2017, IETO - previously called Indonesia Clean Energy Outlook (ICEO), has consistently explained the development of the energy transition in Indonesia in various sectors as well as provided…

Net-Zero Emission Agenda Private Sector Opportunity to Increase Competitiveness

Blog14 December 2021113Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 14 December 2021 - 2021 is considered as a progressive period marked by a number of important events and the birth of various commitments aimed to reduce the impact of climate change. A number of heads of state in the world are competing to show their leadership in dealing with climate change. This is…

Book Discussion “Jejak dan Langkah Energi Terbarukan Indonesia” or “Indonesia’s Renewable Energy Trails and Steps”

8 December 202168Views 0Likes 0Comments

Book Discussion “Jejak dan Langkah Energi Terbarukan Indonesia” or “Indonesia’s Renewable Energy Trails and Steps”. This dynamic of renewables development in Indonesia has been covered by the media. Kompas, as one of the biggest media in Indonesia, has created many in-depth coverage writings on this topic. These daily in-depth reports are compiled in a book…

Indonesia Energy Transition Outlook (IETO) 2022

6 December 2021161Views 0Likes 0Comments

IETO 2022 will be launched in a webinar that is also intended to obtain views/perceptions from policymakers and actors on the trends that will occur in the coming year in the energy transition. Discussions at this meeting will focus on the energy transition readiness framework in Indonesia’s electricity sector as well as various lessons…

Signed the Global Declaration to Phase Out Coal, Indonesia Needs to Prepare a Coal Transition Roadmap

Press Release5 November 2021244Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jakarta, 05 November 2021- At the 26th World Leaders Summit on Climate Change or COP-26, Indonesia signed the Global Coal to Clean Power Transition declaration. On the same day, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Arifin Tasrif, also stated that the government was reviewing the opportunity to early retire coal-fired power plants with a…

Not Renewable energy but Communicate that Coal is Intermittent and Expensive

Blog, Event Coverage24 June 2021102Views 0Likes 0Comments

Communication is a powerful instrument that can be used to build public awareness of the transition to energy and renewable energy. As for how to use this tool to reach various groups of people, not only for people whose daily life is involved in the energy world is an interesting topic of discussion in the…

IESR launches a pathway to zero emissions by 2050

Press Release25 May 202170Views 0Likes 0Comments

Technologically and Economically Feasible, Indonesia Just Needs a Strong Political Will and Bold Plan to Reach Zero Emissions by 2050 The narrow time is running out to overcome the increasingly threatening climate crisis. In contrast, Indonesia's NDC is lacking ambition in complying with the Paris Agreement to keep the earth's temperature below 2 degrees, let alone…

The Jakarta Post | Tug of war: Stakeholders clash over nuclear, fossil fuel addition to green energy bill

Media Coverage26 September 202067Views 0Likes 0Comments

Green energy businesses and watchdogs are up in arms over the House of Representatives’ decision to add nuclear and “new” fossil fuel technologies into a landmark green energy bill. Industry players have issued statements and held public hearings with lawmakers over the past two weeks to protest such an addition in the long-awaited New and…

Are coal power plants the best option to provide electricity? A Climate perspective

Blog8 June 202081Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Government of Indonesia will stay committed to the implementation of the Paris Agreement. At least, it is the message that the Indonesian delegate wishes to communicate in the UNFCCC-COP25 in Madrid last December. Despite the critics that the COP 25 is not successful because the world has failed to come to an agreement, especially…

This Week in Asia | Asia’s next clean energy battle isn’t in China or India. It’s in Indonesia

Media Coverage24 February 202063Views 0Likes 0Comments

Southeast Asia’s largest economy and democracy is approaching a demographic shift. In the next 10 years, almost half of Indonesia’s population will enter the work force. Only three in 10 people will not be of working age by 2030. Conventional poverty rates are declining, millions are moving into cities each year. The island nation’s labour…