Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned electricity giant PLN continues to see its profit eroded by foreign exchange losses, according to the company's financial report.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Civil society actors across Indonesia have laid out a two-phase lawsuit to challenge the controversial Coal and Mineral Mining Law at the Constitutional Court

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – United States-based nuclear company Thorcon International Pte Ltd and Indonesia's Defense Ministry signed a deal on Jul.

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The government has threatened to sanction nickel businesses that fail to comply with nickel ore pricing regulations and, therefore, pose a risk to the country

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesia is estimated to lose between 10,000 and 15,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) from oil theft in several regions, according to the Upstream Oil and Ga

Dzulfiqar Fathur Rahman, Jakarta – The government inaugurated on Monday a facility to produce refuse-derived fuel (RDF), a fuel made of various types of waste, in Cilacap, Central Java

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned electricity giant PLN is slated to receive Rp 9.6 trillion (US$695 million) in state capital injections (PMN) from the government this year to dev

Euis Rita Hartati, Jakarta – The state energy company Pertamina has announced success in producing the refined, bleached, and deodorized palm oil used for 100 percent biofuel, or the s

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Major electricity industry trade unions are considering public protests and strikes to opposite revisions to the 2009 Electrification Law in the controversial

Jakarta – A group made up of activists and regional officials submitted on Friday a request for a judicial review of Indonesia's mining law at the Constitutional Court, arguing there h

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – State-owned oil and gas giant Pertamina has reaffirmed plans to phase out pollutive fuels but a top executive has made clear that the company will not do so u

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Indonesian households have seen abnormal electricity bills for the third consecutive month, likely a result of the accumulation of monthly charges in state el

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Investment in the mining industry is expected to fall short by US$4.74 billion this year, 40 percent of the initial target, as a result of delays in several s

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Miners in Indonesia, the world's top coal exporting country, have decided to cut domestic production by 50 million tons this year in their bid to increase glo

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Hydropower plants developers have expressed their concerns over the decision of state-owned PLN, their plants' offtaker, to place a cap on power production am

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – The government has yet to compensate state-owned oil and gas giant Pertamina Rp 96.5 trillion (US$6.8 billion) for fuel subsidies given to the poor from 2017

Norman Harsono, Jakarta – Four gas producers have inked deals to supply gas at below market price to several gas-fired power plants as part of the government's plan to slash billions o

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

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 suspects that the owners of mineral and coal (minerba) mining businesses are driving

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

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.