Raising Coal DMO Prices Falls Short of Addressing the Root Cause of PLN’s Coal Supply Crisis
Bahlil Lahadalia argues that the Domestic Market Obligation (DMO) coal price has caused a supply crisis for PLN’s power plants. But will simply raising the DMO price solve the…
Indonesia Faces Pressure to Back Deep Sea Mining Pause
Environmental groups are pressing Indonesia to support a global pause on commercial deep sea mining before a decisive UN seabed summit in July. The call places Jakarta in a…
Mercury Bust At Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok Port Exposes ASEAN Wide Green Financial Crime Coridor
Civil society organizations call on ASEAN and member states to treat the April 2026 mercury seizure as a test case for the region's new environmental rights framework JAKARTA /…
Indonesia Urged to Reject Deep-Sea Mining at UN Forum
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia Coalition is urging the government to take a stance in support of a moratorium or outright rejection of deep-sea…
PWYP Indonesia Coalition Urges Indonesian Government to Oppose the Commercialization of Deep-Sea Mining at International Forum
Jakarta – The Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Indonesia Coalition is urging the Government of Indonesia to support a moratorium or rejection of deep-sea mining (DSM) during the 31st…
How to Prevent the Electric Stove Conversion Program from Failing Again
The government plans to roll out an electric stove program in 2027. Why did a similar initiative fail in 2022? For Lika Wakhid, a private-sector employee living in East Jakarta,…
Can Electric Stove Migration Reduce LPG Subsidies?
The government has proposed allocating Rp815.56 billion to convert gas stoves to electric ones. But can this policy really reduce LPG subsidies? For owners of warung…
G7 Minerals Drive Threatens Communities as Evian Summit Opens
G7 leaders opened talks in Evian today to establish a permanent critical minerals body, as experts and indigenous leaders warned the drive risks repeating colonial extraction…
ISDS is a threat to climate action and should be removed from the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA (AANZFTA)
The ten ASEAN countries and Australia and New Zealand have agreed to review investor rights to sue governments known as Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) in the updated…