Endowed with ample mineral and coal resources that have yielded some of the most productive mines in the world, Indonesia’s mining sector continues to exert substantial influence on both the domestic economy and global markets. The world’s largest coal exporter, Indonesia continues to lead the seaborne market despite several leaner years due to weaker demand and softer prices...
Though Indonesia was not a major coal exporter until well into the 1990s, the country’s coal producers have made up for lost time by rapidly boosting their shipments. Along the way, they have ascended to the top spot in the seaborne coal hierarchy, surpassing Australia in 2011 and maintaining the lead position through boom and bust cycles.
Throughout the 2014 campaign for the presidency, Joko Widodo, the eventual winner, stressed the need to bring new blood into a system widely perceived as broken and corrupt. With Widodo now in the driver’s seat, the optimism and hope that often follow a change in leadership is coming to a head during his first year of office. The big questions on everyone’s mind are whether...
Although the focal point of renewable energy development in Indonesia has been geothermal resources, of which the country holds over a third of the global total, in recent years solar power has gained new attention as a viable source. As an equatorial country, Indonesia is well-placed to reap the benefits of new solar options, with off-grid projects offering new ways to...
After years of treading water, Indonesia’s energy sector is finding new optimism in the fresh faces being appointed to key government positions by the new president, Joko Widodo, with the hope that they will be able to renew investor interest in the industry and spur a wave of development. The changes at the top come at a critical time, as myriad factors continue to buffet the...
As Indonesia’s economy keeps chugging along with annual growth rates around 6% in recent years, its appetite for energy continues to expand in parallel. Demand for primary energy hit 130m tonnes of oil equivalent (mtoe) in 2013, and GDP growth of 8% a year through to 2025 forecast by the National Energy Council (NEC) is expected to push growth in energy consumption up to 7.3%...
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