The IndOz Conference was held in Brisbane with an intriguing discussion about sustainable development.
Energy
Indonesia has all the solar energy and pumped-hydro energy storage potential required to become a solar giant by mid-century.
The world’s largest renewable energy and transmission project has received key approval from government officials. The Australia-Asia Power Link project will send Australian solar power to Singapore via 4,300 kilometer-long undersea cables.
State oil firm will also boost carbon trading and bioethanol in five-year plan.
UNESCO famously protects crucial architecture, nature, and artforms around the world, but lesser known is that it also recognizes historic health practices.
Indonesia is a country that is booming economically and demographically. This not only matters for regional political and energy security, but also increasingly, for the world’s energy transitions, due to Indonesia’s large metal reserves, as well as its equally important coal consumption in industry and for power generation.
The global energy transition is disrupting old industries needing to decarbonise. Meanwhile, resource-rich countries stand to benefit from the rush for ‘energy-transition minerals’.
Battery-pack builders chase maximum range, despite the safety risks.
Nickel miner PT Vale Indonesia is exploring a potential investment in a high-pressure acid leaching plant in Sulawesi island, with an estimated cost of 30 trillion rupiah ($1.91 billion), its investment ministry said.
The world’s third-largest coal miner, after China and India, undercounts methane emissions from production of the fuel, according to analysis.
On the eve of Indonesia’s presidential election on Feb. 14, a group of people from across the country gathered at an impromptu art exhibition by the side of a main road in Sidoarjo district, East Java province.
In the recent national elections, the candidates paid surprisingly little attention to one of the greatest challenges Indonesia and the world at large is currently facing – that of climate change.
Backed by Chinese capital, Indonesia’s rapidly growing nickel sector has shown how important geology, technology and controlling the means of production is to the battle lines being drawn over critical minerals.
Australia is no longer competitive in the nickel market, largely due to Indonesia’s recent domination in the sector. This domination strategy has been carefully planned by Indonesia as it looks to boost its downstream industrial policy in critical minerals processing with the backing of Chinese investments.
In a heavily forested district in Indonesia’s portion of the island of Borneo, excavators and an army of surveyors are clearing the way for a $2.6 billion hydroelectric plant, purpose-built to power a vast industrial park — a project lauded by its backers and Jakarta’s government as evidence that economic growth can come with limited carbon cost.
Indonesia’s prudential regulator, the Financial Services Authority (OJK), is currently engaged in discussions regarding the potential classification of coal-fired power plants as ‘green’ under a planned update to its classification scheme for green investments, the Indonesian Green Taxonomy (THI).
