Despite having some of Africa’s highest solar irradiance, Sudan faces a severe energy crisis. Millions of citizens—especially in rural areas—lack reliable electricity and depend on traditional biomass or costly diesel generators (UNDP, 2020). Modern renewables, excluding large hydropower, account for only 0.78% of national electricity generation. Hydropower accounts for about 54.6%, with fossil fuels making […]
Introduction Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) is an African legume that has been grown for centuries in West Africa. It is one of the continent’s most promising but underused crops for climate-resilient agriculture. The crop is widely cultivated in countries such as Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Nigeria. It is known for its ability to withstand […]
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 […]
President Prabowo Subianto personally delivered a speech on fiscal policy at the DPR plenary session on Wednesday (20/5/2026). This was out of the ordinary. Previously, such delivery was done by the Minister of Finance. The most important point of the speech was the restructuring of the export scheme for coal, palm oil, and ferro-nickel. Starting […]
Climate change is one of the biggest problem that humanity facing now, but there is challanges that policy makers dealing with, on how to communicating it. Scientific approach, policies from the government, to some extend fail to resonate with everyday life of communities. In countries like Indonesia, where religion values are really embedded in everyday […]
In the middle of the night, maybe you can not sleep because your thought are running in circle and the room feels so quiet, too heavy. So without really thinking about it you take your phone and open an AI chatbot not to get your work done, not to be productive but just to talk […]
Reston Dennis Juah 
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Hoby Nasandratra Andriamiandrisoa 