Insight

Sector analysis across waste and pollution, energy and climate, and sustainable resources.

A West Java official and community members sorting household waste into organic and inorganic bins, with the Bandung cityscape in the background

Waste & Pollution

Bandung Raya's waste emergency becomes the test case for a two-year national deadline

25 July 2026

A modern Indonesian intercity train departing a station platform at dusk, with solar panels visible on a nearby depot roof and overhead electrification wires

Energy & Climate

Indonesia's state railway cuts energy intensity 22 percent while carrying more passengers than ever

25 July 2026

Customs and naval officers inspecting opened shipping containers of mineral concentrate at a port near Batam, Riau Islands

Sustainable Resources

How a falsified lab report nearly let Indonesia's rare earth wealth leave undetected

25 July 2026

A meeting room with banking and infrastructure finance representatives reviewing documents, with a waste to energy plant model or diagram on a screen

Waste & Pollution

Danantara opens a lenders panel to finance Indonesia's national waste to energy pipeline

24 July 2026

Officials from Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources and the Danish Energy Agency shake hands after signing the INDODEPP II implementing agreement

Energy & Climate

INDODEPP II signed: Indonesia and Denmark extend their energy partnership for five more years

24 July 2026

A commercial aircraft being refueled on the tarmac at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport with a Pertamina fuel truck alongside, sustainable aviation fuel infrastructure visible

Energy & Climate

Indonesia confirms 2027 start for mandatory sustainable aviation fuel

24 July 2026

Gold mining concession site in Ratatotok, Southeast Minahasa, North Sulawesi, with prosecutors and secured evidence in the foreground

Sustainable Resources

North Sulawesi prosecutors recover Rp15.04 billion in the Ratatotok gold mining case, as total state losses are valued at Rp45 billion

24 July 2026

A split view of a decommissioned coal power plant smokestack alongside a floating solar installation and electric motorcycles at a battery swap station in Indonesia

Energy & Climate

TBS Energi Utama puts a dollar figure on the cost of staying in coal

24 July 2026

Small-scale tin miners working an open pit in Bangka Belitung with a government reclamation signboard in the foreground

Sustainable Resources

Bangka Belitung formalizes artisanal tin mining, requiring a 10 percent reclamation deposit on every sale

23 July 2026

Large industrial autoclave vessel being installed at a nickel HPAL processing plant construction site in Morowali, Central Sulawesi

Sustainable Resources

PT Vale's HPAL Sambalagi project reaches a key downstreaming milestone as its autoclave arrives in Morowali

23 July 2026