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A policy brief released on Thursday has warned against the “illusion of cheap coal-fired power” created by the domestic price cap and the continued reliance on fossil fuels threatens to derail the country's energy transition goals.
A maintenance worker inspects a rooftop solar power system on Dec. 5, 2024, at Istiqlal Mosque in Central Jakarta.
(AFP/Bay Ismoyo)
The country’s persistent reliance on fossil fuels is constraining President Prabowo Subianto’s ambition to build solar power plants with a capacity of 100 gigawatts (GW) in just three years, researchers and an environmental group say, while officials highlight the challenges of securing sufficient funds to accelerate the clean energy transition.A policy brief by the University of Indonesia Institute for Economic and Social Research (LPEM) and Greenpeace, released on Thursday, highlights the country’s increasing use of fossil fuels as indicative of a lack of readiness to achieve this goal.
