Category: Indonesia

Government Official Siti Nurbaya Bakar Minister of the Environment and Forestry (MoEF) Deep reforms in the Forestry Ministry have been underway since President Widodo’s merger of the Ministry of the Environment and the Ministry of Forestry. These reforms have been led by the new and first Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya Bakar who...

Research Study: National Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals on Indonesia’s Forests and Peatlands (2015), Haruni Krisnawati, Rinaldi Imanuddin, Wahyu Catur Adinugroho, Silver Hutabarat, Ministry of Environment and Forestry (Kampus Badan Penelitian, Pengembangan dan Inovasi) Audience: government decision-makers and the UNFCCC primarily. Also an important primary source for academics, reporters, the public, and stakeholders...

Submitted by Indonesia Country Manager Tristan GruppIndonesia: National Action Plan for Greenhouse Gas Reduction (RAN-GRK) and The National Action Plan on Climate Change (RAN-API) Background on Indonesia’s National Climate Change Policy In 2009 at the G20 summit, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the previous president, called for the emissions target that become the basis for Indonesia’s INDC...

How the Energy System is Structured Indonesia’s electrical grid and distribution is owned and managed by Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), which simply translates to ‘State Electricity Company’. It is Indonesia’s only fully-integrated power utility company. Until 2002, PLN held a monopoly on distribution, but Law No 20/2002 called for an end to the monopoly. This...

Leading Emission Reduction Challenges: (a) Deforestation; (b) Problems implementing existing climate change policies and programs   Current Greenhouse Gas Emission Levels Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions are closely linked to its land use and forestry. Between September and October of 2015, large amounts of stored carbon were released in Southeast Asia from fires in forests and...

Possibility of Ratification by 2018: High Indonesia signed the Paris Agreement on April 22nd, 2016. Although Indonesia has yet to ratify the agreement, the government is committed to reducing emissions and following through with ratification. In order to ratify the agreement, it must first be submitted by the ‘institution initiating the agreement to the president through the minister...