Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned electricity company PLN has slashed its capital expenditure (capex) for this year by almost half to Rp 53.6 trillion (US$3.7 billion) from an init

Freeport Indonesia, operator of Grasberg, the world's second-biggest copper mine, is on track shift to all-underground mining by 2022, its chief executive said on Sunday.

Basten Gokkon, Jakarta – A newly secured loan of $300 million for Indonesia to boost its geothermal energy generation will be wasted amid a glut of cheap coal power, and also could con

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – According to a copy obtained by The Jakarta Post, Jokowi signed Law No.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – PT North Sumatra Hydro Energy (NSHE) might delay the completion of the Rp 22 trillion (US$1.5 billion) Batang Toru hydropower plant (PLTA) in North Sumatra be

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned electricity company PLN says it has yet to receive compensation worth billions of dollars from the government for offering power to customers belo

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Ministry expects Indonesia to meet a geothermal energy milestone in 2030 instead of 2025 because of the country's unfa

Ghina Ghaliya, Jakarta – Social media users, known in Indonesia as "buzzers", have steered discourse in Indonesia following customer complaints against state-owned electricity firm PLN

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Consumers have criticized state-owned electricity firm PLN for a significant spike in electricity bills in June resulting from a new billing method and increa

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry has expressed its opposition to granting Indonesian coal miners' request to relax coal royalty payments amid the COV

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned electricity company PLN will relax bill payments this month for household customers whose bills spiked because of the company's flawed new bill-ca

Mark Tan, Clarice Chiam and Donavan Lim, Singapore – Southeast Asia's largest buyer of gasoline, Indonesia, has taken another step toward lowering its overall oil purchasing costs by r

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Nationwide fuel consumption during this year's Idul Fitri period was 31.2 percent below the normal level as the government had banned the traditional mudik (e

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Pertamina Hulu Mahakam (PHM), a subsidiary of state-owned oil company Pertamina, is opening up a new oil and gas field in the country to find new reserves des

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesian coal miners are struggling with slow demand this year as businesses in India, one of the country's major coal markets, hit the brakes due to a prol

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned electricity company PLN's net profit nosedived last year as a result of higher tax expenses and operational costs that had offset its higher incom

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia's readiness to shift toward a clean energy economy took another step back last year because of fossil fuel subsidies and faces a monumental hurdle t

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The House of Representatives passed a revision of the 2009 Coal and Mineral Mining Law on Tuesday in a move criticized by some experts and NGOs over a lack of

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Eight civil society organizations plan to mobilize grassroots support in challenging the controversial new Mining Law passed on Tuesday by the House of Repres

Mardika Parama, Jakarta – State-owned energy and utility companies are taking measures to cut expenditure and diversify their businesses to survive while the COVID-19 pandemic is batte

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – As the country grapples with the COVID-19 crisis, lawmakers have approved a controversial revision of the 2009 Coal and Mineral Mining Law, despite outcry fro

Jakarta – Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW) researcher Egi Primayogha suspects that the practice of state highjacking or state capture has occurred through the revisions to Law Number 4

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Indonesia's parliament has passed a controversial bill that effectively gives miners bigger concessions and longer contracts, with fewer environmental obl

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned electricity company PLN acknowledged that the use of a new calculation method had caused an increase in electricity bills in April.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia's top fuel distributor, state-owned Pertamina, is offering a Ramadhan holiday fuel promotion for purchases of unsubsidized fuels amid the COVID-19 p

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) coordinator, Merah Johansyah Ismail, on Sunday's press conference suspects that the drafting of the much-debated work cr

Budiarti Utami Putri, Jakarta – Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam) Coordinator Merah Johansyah Ismail suspects that the owners of mineral and coal (minerba) mining businesses are driving

Budi Sutrisno, Jakarta – State-owned electricity firm PLN has announced its intention to supply small-scale businesses and industries on 450-volt ampere (VA) contracts with six months

Skylar Lindsay – Indonesia is one of the world's largest exporters of coal and with little oversight, coal mining companies in the archipelago have cleared rainforests and polluted nat

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The government has put a floor under the price of nickel ore to protect small miners amid Indonesia's aggressive efforts to develop downstream mining industri

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The government has yet to disburse Rp 48 trillion (US$3.09 billion) to state-owned electricity company PLN for electricity subsidy costs incurred over the pas

David Firnando Silalahi – Indonesia is a tropical country with year-round sunshine.

Febriana Firdaus, Bintuni Bay, Indonesia – Residents of this part of the island of New Guinea have long known they live atop a coal deposit.

Jakarta – Nine people were killed by a landslide at an illegal gold mine in Sumatra, an Indonesian official said Sunday.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – A litany of loopholes allows mining companies in Indonesia to shirk their obligation to restore and rehabilitate their former concessions, a new report sa

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Over a million Indonesian families living in internet dead zones have been unable to access a government-funded electricity relief scheme being distributed on

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The government expects domestic coal consumption to fall as much as 5 percent this year due to lower coal-fired power plant activity in the virus-ridden econo

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia's top oil and gas company, state-owned Pertamina, will press on with a plan to increase production by 1.8 percent this year despite financial pressu

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Norman Harsono and Marchio Irfan Gorbiano, Jakarta – The government has set a target of electrifying 433 remote villages in Indonesia's four most impoverished provinces before year end

Jakarta – Indonesia has approved a new export permit for 1.07 million tonnes of copper concentrate for Freeport Indonesia, operator of the world's second-biggest copper mine, an energy

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has announced that Indonesia's poorest households will receive free electricity and discounts to help them cope with the econom

M Rosseno Aji, Jakarta – Indonesian Consumers Foundation (YLKI) reviewed that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's policy on free electricity for 450-VA subscribers and 50 percent discount

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia's largest thermal coal miner, PT Bumi Resources, booked a US$6.84 million profit in 2019, down 97 percent from $220.4 million in the previous year p

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – Mining companies in Indonesia are among those being hit by weakened demand as the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the global economy.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The government aims to jumpstart stalled renewable energy projects through a recently issued regulation as it races against time to catch up with Indonesia's

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia has revoked the price floor for unsubsidized gasoline and diesel as the government expects falling global oil prices to push down retail costs, but

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Ministry is proposing the inclusion of power companies onto a list of industries eligible for cheap natural gas.

As the world faces the coronavirus crisis, my people face a renewed humanitarian crisis in West Papua.

In an historic address to Australian parliament last month, Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo called for both countries to take stronger action on climate change, including by