Muhammed Patel, Pretoria, South Africa – At a time of mounting global pressure toward a carbon-free energy system, Indonesia remains committed to coal.

Mai Nguyen and Siyi Liu – Nickel smelters in top producer Indonesia are making rare purchases of ore from the Philippines to ease tight supplies, people familiar with the matter said, u

Jakarta – Indonesian state energy company Pertamina plans in 2024 to mix more of its gasoline products with ethanol in a bid to offer alternative fuels to the public, its chief executiv

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's deal with industrialized countries for the latter to channel $20 billion in funding to help speed up the former's energy transition is hitting

Jakarta – It is not a secret that Indonesia's energy transition will cost immense sums of money. Yet all we keep hearing about is win-wins.

Jakarta – Coal mining company Golden Energy Mines (GEMS), a subsidiary of Sinar Mas Mining, posted a revenue of $1.44 billion in the first half of the year, representing a year-on-year

Divya Karyza, Jakarta – Newly built captive power plants fueled with coal may be a stumbling block for Indonesia's effort to cap power sector carbon emissions and get international fina

Antara, Jakarta – The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) is currently preparing a strategy for the development of nuclear power plants in Indonesia.

Yudith Ho and Faris Mokhtar – Indonesia will temporarily relax rules that have slowed development of solar energy in the coal-dependent country, lifting one of the many regulatory and l

Divya Karyza, Jakarta – The Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) Secretariat, tasked with overseeing the implementation of Indonesia's US$20 billion JETP, has pushed back the launc

By Peter S. Goodman, Sulawesi – For most of his 57 years on the island of Sulawesi, Jamal was accustomed to scarcity, modest expectations and a grim shortage of jobs.

Jakarta – Indonesia has pushed back the launch of a much-anticipated investment plan underpinning a landmark US$20 billion (S$27 billion) climate financing deal struck with United State

Victoria Milko – A plan for how Indonesia will spend $20 billion to transition to cleaner energy was submitted Wednesday to the government and its financing partners, the planners said.

Ruth Dea Juwita, Jakarta – Businesses in Indonesia have urged the government to drop its planned natural gas price hike, saying the policy lacks immediate necessity and carries signific

Aditya Hadi, Jakarta – The government has temporarily halted all nickel mining operations in the Mandiodo Block in Southeast Sulawesi, Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Arifin Tasri

Divya Karyza, Jakarta – An impending ban on quartz sand or silica sand exports could jump-start rooftop solar panel manufacturing in Indonesia, industry observers believe.

Timika, Jubi – Since 1972, PT Freeport Indonesia's mining operations in Mimika, Central Papua have transformed mountains into giant ravines, pulverizing mineral-rich rocks and depositin

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Recent statements by top Indonesian officials have climate activists questioning the country's commitment to transitioning away from fossil fuels and towar

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia is on a spree of building coal-fired power plants for industry, which will keep the country addicted to the fossil fuel for the foreseeable futur

M Julnis Firmansyah, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko Widodo or Jokowi responded to criticism voiced by a senior economist from the Institute for Development of Economics and Finance

Rio Abadi, Jakarta – The freshly launched mining association Aspeti said on Thursday that it sought to promote better use of Indonesia's natural resources, while also helping small mine

Rangga Prakoso, Jakarta – The state revenue generated from mineral and coal mining has surged to Rp 111.65 trillion ($7.3 billion) year-to-date, surpassing the full-year target by an im

Riani Sanusi Putri, Jakarta – Senior Economist from the University of Indonesia Faisal Basri again criticized President Joko Widodo or Jokowi's downstream mining policy, especially nick

Jakarta – Indonesia's state energy company PT Pertamina said on Tuesday it will develop a fuel storage facility in north Jakarta, following a deadly fire that broke out at a terminal ea

Timika, Jubi – Since 1972, PT Freeport Indonesia's mining operations in Mimika, Central Papua have transformed mountains into giant ravines, pulverizing mineral-rich rocks and depositin

Riri Rahayu, Jakarta – The Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Arifin Tasrif said the government targeted Masela Block to start its operation in December 2029 at the latest

Riri Rahayu, Jakarta – Indonesia's Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Arifin Tasrif said the country needs a total investment of up to US$1 trillion by 2060 in order to transition in

Jakarta – Mining giant Freeport has obtained a license to ship copper concentrate from its Indonesian operation until May 2024, but may contest new government rules on export duties.

Rangga Prakoso, Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has assured that it will not impose a supply cap on subsidized liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), stating that the supply

Theo Kelen, Rabin Yarangga, Dominggus A Mampioper, Angela Flassy, Timika – Since 1972, PT Freeport Indonesia's mining operations in Mimika, Central Papua have transformed mountains into

Banyumas – Eight people trapped in an illegal gold mine on the Indonesian island of Java are feared dead, a local rescue official said Sunday, as search efforts entered a fifth day with

Jakarta – It comes as no surprise that the recent Group of 20 major economies meeting on clean energy in India could not agree on phasing out fossil fuel use.

Chris Barrett and Karuni Rompies, Singapore/Jakarta – Search and rescue crews were on Thursday desperately attempting to save eight miners trapped as far as 60 metres underground in Ind

Mei Leandha, Jakarta – Earlier this week, the residents of Medan lamented the scarcity of 3kg Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) Gas Cylinders since almost all retailers declared them out of

Amanda Battersby, Singapore – Australian independent Carnarvon Energy has exited Timor-Leste, effectively drawing a line on any redevelopment of the Buffalo oilfield that until only rec

Riri Rahayu, Jakarta – PT Pertamina (Persero) officially takes over Masela Block from Shell.

Arnoldus Kristianus, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has spent a staggering Rp 57.7 trillion or approximately $3.8 billion on fuel subsidies for the first half of the year, Finance

Amelia Rahima Sari, Caesar Akbar, Jakarta – The Oil and Gas Companies Association (Aspermigas) claimed that the government has not yet discussed the plan to ban the export of liquefied

Villagers once had to rely on their own resources to light their homes.

Jakarta – Indonesia's upstream oil and gas industry recorded a "significant" 21 percent increase in investment to US$5.7 billion during the first half of 2023, from the $4.7 billion rec

Divya Karyza, Jakarta – Indonesia's oil and gas investment in the first half of the year amounted to US$5.7 billion, just 36.67 percent of this year's $15.54 billion target, according t

Jakarta – The government's goal of reaching its net-zero emission (NZE) target is a challenging one, given how much the country relies on the abundant resources of natural gas and oil.

Jayanty Nada Shofa, Jakarta – Chinese glass giant Xinyi Group seeks to make an $11 billion investment in the quartz sand downstream industry that lies in Rempang eco-city in Batam, Riau

Vincent Fabian Thomas, Jakarta – Singapore is looking to other ASEAN countries as alternatives to importing "green electrons", its term for electricity produced from renewable energy, a

Eka Yudha Saputra, Jakarta – The Attorney General's Office (AGO) named Windu Aji Susanto, the owner of PT Kara Nusantara Investama, as a suspect in the illegal nickel mining case on Tue

Amelia Rahma Sari, Jakarta – Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said that Indonesia's level of utilization of new and renewable energy (NRE), which has only reached 0.5 percent of t

Tenggara Strategics, Jakarta – Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo instructed his ministers not to lose focus on establishing the country's downstream industry in light of a recen

Amy Chew, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – As Indonesia races to become a manufacturing hub for electric vehicle (EV) batteries on the back of its vast nickel reserves, safety issues at the cou

Aditya Hadi, Jakarta – Indonesia will stand firm on its bans on mineral ore exports in order to boost its downstream industry, despite the International Monetary Fund calling on the cou

Valdya Baraputri – Two men are carrying torches and homemade arrows as they slip into the ocean at night on an Indonesian island.