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 of the Paris Agreement and any attempt to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. However, as a developing country still highly dependent on natural resources and fossil fuels, it has long been clear that it will not decarbonise without significant international support. That is

Don’t Throw Out Your Used Cooking Oil Just Yet, It Can be Turned into Money

This Detik article cites an initial study by TNP2K and Traction Energi Asia on the Potential of Used Cooking Oil for Biodiesel and Poverty Reduction in Indonesia (2020) which notes that in 2019, the national consumption of palm cooking oil reached 16.2 million kilo liters (KL). Read the full article here.

Palm Oil Smallholders Have Not Enjoyed the B30 Program

In this CNN Indonesia article, Research Manager for Traction Energy Asia, Ricky Amukti, is quoted as saying that the partnership scheme is the right strategy for the involvement of independent oil palm smallholders in the national biodiesel supply chain. Read the article here.

As Palm Oil for Biofuel Rises in Southeast Asia, Tropical Ecosystems Shrink

Indonesia and Malaysia are looking to shore up demand domestically and in China, with the EU having changed course away from biofuels. Back in 2003, the European Union ruled that biofuels must make up 5.75% of the bloc’s transport fuel by the year 2010 – a goal that was updated in 2009 to 10% by 2020. Intended to help tackle climate change, the move had the opposite effect. Emissions resulting from changing tropical landscapes to grow biofuel crops were three times higher than from the fossil fuels they replaced, according to a 2015 report. Biofuels – liquids or gases made from plant products