Water is a problem of more than just development. It’s, more and more, a climate issue. The correlation between rising sea level and increase in El Niño cycles is very small in Indonesia, which is a big archipelago in the middle of the monsoons. In this article, PAMSIMAS, the water programme in Indonesia, is not […]
It is very ironic in Indonesia, the design of Labuan Bajo. It is the “super-premium” one, the “New Bali” which the government wants to offer to the world’s travellers who seek their pristine nature. Not all of the marketing is bogus. This small port town at the westerntip of Flores Island is the gem of […]
This is the third of a series of articles about the energy transition policy of Indonesia. The first article was regarding the issues of the RUPTL 2025-2034, which is the plan of the domestic climate commitments in Indonesia. In the last article, we discussed the issues regarding domestic climate commitments in Indonesia, which were in […]
This is part 2 of a series of articles about the energy transition policy in Indonesia. The first article titled “The Energy Transition is being Obstructed by the Power Market Structure in Indonesia: Locked In, Powered Down” looked at how PLN’s power purchase agreement process is systematically preventing renewable energy from joining the grid in […]
Climate policy in Indonesia on analysis. About This Series Indonesia has ratified all the right climate agreement and has ambitious clean energy target. But in terms of its energy system, it remains to be going in the wrong direction.The idea for this series is: It’s not about intent, it’s about structure. The rules, contracts and […]
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Abdullahi Ahmed