How Will Indonesia’s JETP Move The Country Beyond Coal?
The Just Energy Transition Partnership for Indonesia announced last year – with more details due in mid-2023 – targets coal-fired power plants. Nithin Coca reports on how it will, and will not, change the country’s energy system. Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country and fifth-largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter, is crucial to the success […]
Indonesia’s Biofuel Push Must Go Beyond Palm Oil to Reduce Risk, Experts Say
Indonesia faces deforestation, energy and security risks from its overreliance on palm oil as a feedstock for its biofuel transition program, observers say. The government will in February increase the biofuel blend in diesel to 35%, from the current 30%, with an eye on a 50:50 blend by 2025 — and eventually fossil-free biodiesel. But […]
Analysis: Can Indonesia Ditch Coal and Improve Lives With New Green Deal?
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – After clinching one of the largest-ever climate finance deals to shutter its coal-fired power plants early, Indonesia needs to work out how to make sure communities that will be impacted by the shift to renewable energy do not lose out, analysts said. A coalition of rich nations […]
Used cooking oil as feedstock makes biofuels more sustainable
By Fariz Panghegar. This op-ed was originally posted on The Jakarta Post. Indonesia’s ambitious biofuel program, which promotes the use of increasingly higher mixes of crude palm oil (CPO) with conventional diesel — currently 30 percent (CPO/diesel) — has become one of the key contributors to Indonesia meeting its carbon–emissions–reduction target, as well as reducing […]
The Advantages of Used Cooking Oil for the Home Economy
Since the end of 2018, Chevie Mawarti, founder of Arnetta Craft, has been creating handicraft items from used cooking oil (UCO), including soap, candles, and scented wax, which she then sells in packages and hampers. “Cooking oil has a selling value as long as it is polished beautifully. Recycling UCO to make other things can […]
Used Cooking Oil: A Promising Energy Business Potential
The original version of this press release can be viewed on the official website of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources here. The press release is only available in Bahasa Indonesia.
