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Bandung Raya's waste emergency becomes the test case for a two-year national deadline
In Bandung on 24 July 2026, Coordinating Minister Zulkifli Hasan set a two-year target to end open dumping nationwide, pairing it with a push for BRIN's source-level composting technology and a West Java sanctions regulation aimed at the region's 2,000-tonne daily waste load.
Waste & Pollution · 25 July 2026
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Indonesia's state railway cuts energy intensity 22 percent while carrying more passengers than ever
PT Kereta Api Indonesia reduced energy use per customer by 22.05 percent in 2025 even as ridership grew 8.67 percent, offering a working template for industrial energy efficiency that Sirkularium sees as directly relevant to Indonesia's broader decarbonization agenda.
Energy & Climate · 25 July 2026
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How a falsified lab report nearly let Indonesia's rare earth wealth leave undetected
Indonesia's Attorney General's Office has charged three people, including a state testing-firm official, over a falsified laboratory report that nearly allowed 390 tons of rare earth and radioactive minerals to leave Batam disguised as ordinary tin ore. The case has since triggered nationwide customs testing that is now reshaping how Indonesia verifies the mineral exports it relies on for revenue.
Sustainable Resources · 25 July 2026
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Danantara opens a lenders panel to finance Indonesia's national waste to energy pipeline
On 22 July 2026, Danantara subsidiary Denera opened registration for banks and infrastructure financiers to join a lenders panel supporting Indonesia's PSEL waste to energy programme, with PT Indonesia Infrastructure Finance coordinating the process and submissions open until 28 July 2026.
Waste & Pollution · 24 July 2026
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INDODEPP II signed: Indonesia and Denmark extend their energy partnership for five more years
Indonesia and Denmark signed the second phase of their energy partnership on July 20, 2026, extending a decade of cooperation for another five years. Here is what INDODEPP has delivered, what INDODEPP II will focus on, and why it matters for Indonesia's path to net zero.
Energy & Climate · 24 July 2026
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Indonesia confirms 2027 start for mandatory sustainable aviation fuel
Coordinating Minister Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono confirmed Indonesia will require a 1 percent sustainable aviation fuel blend on international flights from 2027, backed by Pertamina refinery trials and a roadmap reaching 50 percent blending by 2060.
Energy & Climate · 24 July 2026
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North Sulawesi prosecutors recover Rp15.04 billion in the Ratatotok gold mining case, as total state losses are valued at Rp45 billion
Kejaksaan Tinggi Sulawesi Utara has recovered Rp15.04 billion in state losses from the PT HWR gold mining corruption case in Ratatotok, part of a Rp45 billion valuation that separates environmental damage from illegal mineral gain. The case is an early example of Indonesian prosecutors putting a rupiah figure on mining harm rather than treating it as an abstraction.
Sustainable Resources · 24 July 2026
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TBS Energi Utama puts a dollar figure on the cost of staying in coal
A Task Force on Climate related Financial Disclosures analysis presented at Jakarta's Lestari Summit shows Indonesian energy company TBS Energi Utama could lose USD 3.8 billion by 2050 if it remains dependent on coal, reinforcing a transition already under way toward waste management, renewable power and electric mobility.
Energy & Climate · 24 July 2026
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Bangka Belitung formalizes artisanal tin mining, requiring a 10 percent reclamation deposit on every sale
Bangka Belitung has enacted a regional regulation legalizing small-scale tin mining across 890.7 hectares, with permit holders required to deposit 10 percent of every mineral sale into a government-controlled reclamation fund.
Sustainable Resources · 23 July 2026
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PT Vale's HPAL Sambalagi project reaches a key downstreaming milestone as its autoclave arrives in Morowali
The autoclave at the heart of PT Vale Indonesia's HPAL Sambalagi project arrived in Morowali on 22 July 2026, a milestone toward a facility designed to produce 90,000 tons of nickel content a year for the electric vehicle battery supply chain. Tailings design work now underway is the detail worth tracking as the project moves toward construction.
Sustainable Resources · 23 July 2026
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President Prabowo enlists the armed forces and a fuel-free incinerator in a national push against waste
Following a 17 July 2026 inspection of the MOTAH waste processing machine at an air base in Malang, President Prabowo Subianto directed the TNI, police, ministries and regional governments to take an active role in national waste management, and the TNI commander confirmed the armed forces are ready to help deploy the technology further.
Waste & Pollution · 23 July 2026
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A community maggot house in Depok turns household food waste into income
Garudafood and Biomagg opened a new black soldier fly larvae facility in Depok Jaya on 21 July 2026, extending a four year old program that is helping households divert organic waste, the largest single category in Indonesia's waste stream, away from landfills.
Waste & Pollution · 22 July 2026
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Indonesia lays out 93 hydrogen projects worth Rp32 trillion at Jakarta summit
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources used the Global Hydrogen Ecosystem Summit to detail 93 hydrogen initiatives worth Rp32 trillion in investment, alongside a working dual-fuel bus and a planned 194 kilometer green hydrogen corridor from Jakarta to Patimban.
Energy & Climate · 22 July 2026
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Constitutional Court sets transparent criteria for priority mining permits to religious organizations
Indonesia's Constitutional Court ruled that priority mining permits for religious and community organizations cannot be handed out by direct appointment, and must instead follow objective, transparent, and accountable selection criteria. The decision touches a program that has opened more than 96,800 hectares of former coal concessions to organizations including NU and Muhammadiyah.
Sustainable Resources · 22 July 2026
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Indonesia opens ethanol plant construction to private investors ahead of E20
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources invited private companies to build bioethanol plants, aiming to grow Indonesia's single existing facility into 30 to 50 within a few years to meet a 20 percent ethanol blending mandate by 2028.
Energy & Climate · 21 July 2026
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A fast, coordinated response contains a landfill fire in Surabaya within hours
A fire broke out at Block 1B of TPA Benowo in Surabaya on the evening of 19 July 2026 and was brought fully under control within about five hours with no injuries, prompting renewed attention to dry season fire readiness at Indonesia's landfills.
Waste & Pollution · 21 July 2026
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Weda Bay Nickel's reclaimed land more than doubles to 223 hectares, sharpening the case for pricing recovery
PT Weda Bay Nickel had reclaimed 223.43 hectares of former mining land in Halmahera Tengah by March 2026, up from 84.86 hectares four months earlier. The gain is a genuine operational milestone, and a reminder that Indonesia still has few routine ways to put a rupiah figure on what recovered land is worth.
Sustainable Resources · 21 July 2026
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Indonesia courts Chinese capital for its 100 GW solar program
Coordinating Minister Airlangga Hartarto invited Chinese companies to invest in Indonesia's 100 gigawatt solar target during a Shanghai meeting, pointing to the Cirata floating solar plant as proof the partnership already works.
Energy & Climate · 20 July 2026
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Indonesia's palm oil biomass could gain eight to nine times its value, IPB researchers find
Indonesia's 16.83 million hectares of oil palm plantations produce 261.7 million tonnes of biomass a year. IPB University researchers say applying circular economy methods to fronds, empty bunches, and mill effluent could multiply that material's value eight to nine times over.
Sustainable Resources · 20 July 2026
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Environment Ministry sets a 2027 deadline for West Sumatra to resolve its waste crisis
At a coordination meeting in Padang Pariaman on 14 July 2026, Environment Minister Moh Jumhur Hidayat asked West Sumatra's governor and every district head to complete a full, source to disposal overhaul of the province's waste system by the end of 2027, two years ahead of Indonesia's national target.
Waste & Pollution · 20 July 2026
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Jakarta sets a firm date to end open dumping at Bantargebang
Starting 1 August 2026, Jakarta's environmental agency begins a phased shift from open dumping to a controlled landfill system at TPST Bantargebang, with open dumping's share of waste management targeted to fall from 72.56 percent today to zero by 2028.
Waste & Pollution · 19 July 2026
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Bauxite overtakes nickel for the first time, and Indonesia quietly rewrites how ore is valued
Bauxite displaced nickel as Indonesia's top downstreaming investment commodity in the second quarter of 2026, just months after the government overhauled the formula it uses to price minerals for royalty purposes. Together the two shifts say more about the state of resource valuation than either does alone.
Sustainable Resources · 19 July 2026
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Pertamina's shipping arm expands solar-powered green shipping toward nine vessels by 2029
PT Pertamina Trans Kontinental is scaling up solar-plus-battery power on its fleet, building on a documented case that already cuts 79.2 tons of CO2 and 28.08 kiloliters of diesel a year per vessel, with cargo ships joining the program from 2026.
Energy & Climate · 19 July 2026
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A landfill fire in Depok is contained within hours, and the city moves fast on prevention
A fire broke out at Depok's overloaded Cipayung landfill on the evening of 16 July 2026 and was brought under control within hours with no injuries, prompting the city to roll out round-the-clock patrols and daily preventive watering ahead of the rest of the dry season.
Waste & Pollution · 18 July 2026
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What a Rp95.9 billion loss estimate in Muara Enim reveals about pricing illegal mining inside a legal concession
Police dismantled an illegal coal mining ring operating inside PT Bukit Asam's own permit area in Muara Enim, South Sumatra, with officials putting the state revenue loss at Rp95.9 billion. The figure is a useful fiscal snapshot, and a reminder of how much a full economic valuation would still need to add.
Sustainable Resources · 18 July 2026
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Bio Farma switches vaccine plant boilers to natural gas, cutting emissions and costs
Indonesia's largest vaccine producer has commissioned its first compressed natural gas facility in Bandung, projecting a 24 percent cut in boiler emissions and energy efficiency gains reported between 37 and 40 percent, a small but instructive template for industrial decarbonization in essential manufacturing.
Energy & Climate · 17 July 2026
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Indonesia lays out a national roadmap to end its waste crisis by 2029
At a Jakarta forum on 16 July 2026, Indonesia's environment and food coordinating ministries unveiled a combined plan: a mandatory producer-funded waste rule, a four-technology processing mix, and regulation cut from hundreds of approvals to three.
Waste & Pollution · 17 July 2026
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What the Rp17.7 trillion Samin Tan verdict shows about pricing eight years of illegal mining
The Attorney General's Office says unlicensed coal mining by PT Asmin Koalindo Tuhup cost the state Rp17.7 trillion in financial losses alone, a figure built by prosecutors and state auditors across nearly nine years of operations. The number that has not yet been calculated, the broader economic loss to the country, is the more instructive part of the case.
Sustainable Resources · 17 July 2026
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Minister's East Java tour highlights a national model for waste management
Environment Minister Mohammad Jumhur Hidayat toured Jombang, Gresik and Surabaya on 15 July 2026, naming East Java the country's top-performing province in waste management and pointing to a Jombang refuse-derived-fuel scheme as a template for other regions.
Waste & Pollution · 16 July 2026
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Freeport's dip in state revenue puts a number on what Grasberg's recovery is worth
PT Freeport Indonesia told the House of Representatives its 2026 contribution to the state will fall to US$2.6 billion, a 40 percent drop from 2025, as the Grasberg Block Cave mine recovers from last year's landslide. The company's own figures show that number rising to US$4.7 billion in 2027 and above US$7 billion once production returns to full capacity.
Sustainable Resources · 16 July 2026
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Petrokimia Gresik named Indonesia's best port as green and smart port scores climb
Eight Indonesian ports, most of them serving fertilizer, steel, and nickel industries, earned Green and Smart Port certification this week, with Petrokimia Gresik's terminal posting a 94 percent score after energy efficiency and digitalization upgrades.
Energy & Climate · 16 July 2026
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Gua Macan resource upgrade shows what disciplined mineral valuation looks like
PT Merdeka Copper Gold raised the mineral resource estimate at its Gua Macan copper-gold porphyry in East Java by 25 percent, to 276 million tonnes, using standardised JORC and KCMI reporting. The update is a rare public example of the rigorous, standards-based valuation Indonesia's mining sector needs more of.
Sustainable Resources · 15 July 2026
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Tangerang landfill fire is contained, adding fresh momentum to Indonesia's open dumping phase out
A ten day fire that burned 15 hectares of the Jatiwaringin landfill in Tangerang Regency has been fully extinguished, with the emergency status lifted on 15 July 2026, sharpening national attention on ending open dumping and turning landfill methane into an economic opportunity.
Waste & Pollution · 15 July 2026
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Sirkularium is hiring a Local Energy Consultant to support INDODEPP
Sirkularium is recruiting a Jakarta-based Local Energy Consultant to support the Indonesia-Denmark Energy Partnership Programme's work on energy efficiency in industry and buildings, starting August 2026.
Energy & Climate · 15 July 2026
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Danantara selects eight partner consortiums to build Indonesia's next waste to energy plants
Indonesia's state investment fund named eight preferred partners for the second phase of the national waste to energy programme, covering 20 regencies and cities and drawing far more competition than the first round.
Waste & Pollution · 14 July 2026
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Indonesia opens mining to cooperatives, leaving reclamation guarantees an open question
Government Regulation 39/2025 now lets village cooperatives hold mining concessions of up to 2,500 hectares, and the government has just extended cooperative management to community oil wells too. Neither announcement has said how these smaller operators will meet the same reclamation guarantee rules large miners are being pressed to prove this year.
Sustainable Resources · 13 July 2026
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Coordinating minister seeks presidential decree to clear Indonesia's waste mountains
Zulkifli Hasan, Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs, told a civil society dialogue in Wonosobo he has asked President Prabowo Subianto for a decree giving his office cross-agency authority to resolve waste piles in priority cities by 2028.
Waste & Pollution · 13 July 2026
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Indonesia and Singapore sign a cross-border power deal, then get stuck on price
Jakarta and Singapore signed 26 agreements on July 6, including a mandate for Danantara to export up to 3.4 gigawatts of clean electricity, but the deal cannot close until the two governments agree on a tariff.
Energy & Climate · 13 July 2026
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Indonesia issues its first forestry carbon credits under a new national registry
The Ministry of Forestry approved 31.7 million tons of forestry carbon credits for four projects and launched a national registry to track them, moving Indonesia's carbon market from framework to first transaction.
Energy & Climate · 12 July 2026
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What Jambi's illegal gold mining would cost under Indonesia's own valuation rules
Indonesia already has a standard method for putting a rupiah figure on mining damage, the one that valued the PT Timah case at Rp271 trillion. Nobody has yet applied it to the illegal gold mining tearing into Kerinci Seblat National Park.
Sustainable Resources · 12 July 2026
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Indonesia moves to make plastic producers fund waste management
A near-final ministerial regulation would require close to 10,000 large factories to finance packaging waste management through independent recovery organizations, shifting the cost away from the state budget.
Waste & Pollution · 12 July 2026
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Coal graft probe implicates itself in the blackouts hitting a coal-rich island
Indonesian police have opened a formal corruption investigation into coal suppliers to state power plants, alleging fraud that regulators say helped trigger rolling blackouts now stretching from Sumatra to Kalimantan.
Energy & Climate · 11 July 2026
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Kepulauan Seribu advances household waste sorting to 59 percent
Jakarta's outer-islands regency reports source sorting has reached 59 percent across eleven inhabited islands, backed by working organic-to-feed and automated sorting pilots that give the province's open dumping transition a real proof point.
Waste & Pollution · 11 July 2026
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State miner MIND ID cuts waste 11 percent as circular practices take hold
Indonesia's state mining holding reused, recycled, or recovered more than a million tonnes of residual material in 2025, turning nickel slag and gold tailings into construction inputs while overall waste generation fell 11.3 percent.
Sustainable Resources · 11 July 2026
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Bali breaks ground on its first waste-to-energy plant
The Rp3 trillion Denpasar Raya facility, designed to absorb 44 percent of Bali's daily waste, broke ground three weeks before the island's overloaded Suwung landfill closes for good, leaving a gap the plant itself will not be ready to fill until 2028.
Waste & Pollution · 10 July 2026
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Indonesia sets a firm 2027 deadline to end open dumping at landfills
Environment Minister Jumhur Hidayat tightened a phased 2027-2028 target into a single hard deadline, with 369 of the country's 485 landfills still needing to convert to controlled or sanitary systems.
Waste & Pollution · 10 July 2026
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Indonesia compresses its 100 GW solar target to three years
A solar pledge made in Tokyo in March 2026 gained new urgency after coal-linked blackouts hit Sumatra and Java in May, and by July the government had mapped 28,000 hectares of land on Java and secured $1.4 billion for domestic manufacturing to back it up.
Energy & Climate · 10 July 2026
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ASEAN puts a just energy transition at the centre of 2026
Under the Philippines' 2026 chairship, ASEAN has made a just and inclusive energy transition a formal pillar of cooperation for the first time, just as CBAM enforcement begins and data centre demand strains a regional grid still short of its own targets.
Energy & Climate · 9 July 2026
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Indonesia sets a 53 percent waste handling target for 2026
The government wants more than half of national waste properly managed this year, a target that has since been revised upward to 63.4 percent, against a 2023 baseline in which only 39 percent of 56.6 million tonnes of annual waste was properly handled.
Waste & Pollution · 9 July 2026
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Water monitoring gap puts Indonesian nickel under scrutiny
Only about a quarter of nickel refiners in Indonesia have water pollution monitoring systems in place, against a global rate of 48 percent, according to Benchmark Minerals. As Indonesia heads toward supplying 60 percent of the world's nickel by 2030, that gap is becoming a supply chain issue for automakers as much as a local environmental one, and regulators are moving to close it.
Sustainable Resources · 9 July 2026
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Producer responsibility moves to the centre of Indonesia's plastic strategy
Seven years into a national roadmap asking manufacturers to cut packaging waste 30 percent by 2029, national compliance sits below 5 percent, the gap a July 2026 industry forum and the country's first packaging recovery organisation are now trying to close.
Waste & Pollution · 8 July 2026
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Indonesia's carbon registry nears full launch
A new national carbon unit registry went live in July 2026, unlocking the country's largest-ever forestry carbon issuance and reopening international trading after a four-year pause. The ledger is unglamorous, but it is what the market now runs on.
Energy & Climate · 8 July 2026
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Pressure builds for a more responsible critical minerals supply chain
Indonesia supplies roughly 60 percent of the world's mined nickel, and both the European Union and the United States are now writing rules that decide how much of it their markets will actually accept. Meeting those rules, and answering mounting evidence of deforestation in nickel concessions, is becoming the real test of the energy transition story Indonesia is telling.
Sustainable Resources · 8 July 2026
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Tailings and water management move up the ESG agenda
Indonesia's PROPER environmental rating and its sustainable finance taxonomy are turning tailings and water management from a compliance afterthought into a factor that shapes access to capital. PT Vale became the only nickel miner to reach PROPER's gold tier this cycle, out of 5,476 companies assessed nationwide.
Sustainable Resources · 7 July 2026
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Solar and storage move to the front of Indonesia's grid plans
Hybrid solar-plus-storage projects are moving from pilot schemes to national policy, with PLN's ten-year grid plan and a 100 GW village solar program both betting on batteries to make renewables dependable.
Energy & Climate · 7 July 2026
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Updated waste to energy rules link the circular economy and clean power
Presidential Regulation 109/2025 replaces a seven-year-old framework that produced only two working plants out of twelve planned, setting a fixed tariff, a firm approval timeline, and a lower waste threshold to try to make the next round of projects actually get built.
Waste & Pollution · 7 July 2026
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B50 biodiesel push tests the limits of palm-based fuel
Indonesia has become the first country to mandate a 50 percent palm oil diesel blend, betting on energy security and rural income even as smallholders, food processors, and export markets absorb the trade-offs.
Energy & Climate · 6 July 2026
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Indonesia named as a market for improving informal waste workers' lives
A global initiative has picked Indonesia as its second implementation market, putting the collectors, sorters, and aggregators who recover roughly a million tonnes of waste a year at the center of the country's circular economy plans.
Waste & Pollution · 6 July 2026
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Nickel downstreaming keeps value at home but raises the governance bar
Indonesia's nickel export ban has pushed the value added from domestic processing from US$1.4 billion in 2020 to US$34.8 billion in 2023, and nickel-linked tax revenue up more than tenfold since 2016. The build-out behind those numbers, and the coal power it runs on, is now the harder governance problem.
Sustainable Resources · 6 July 2026
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