Highlights

Missed targets:

Indonesia’s energy transition efforts are continuously being undermined by policy inconsistencies and missed targets. Despite government regulations setting a limit of coal use at 30 per cent of the total energy mix by 2025, state electricity company Perusahaan Listrik Negara’s (PLN) coal use target was 62 per cent during the same period.

Renewable energy, which was supposed to reach 23 per cent of Indonesia’s energy mix by 2025, only reached 13.9 per cent in December 2024, even falling short of the revised target of 17–19 per cent by 2025.

The government is pushing EVs but the energy mix is still largely coal:

Electric vehicle policies fail to address that the electricity sector is Indonesia’s second largest emissions contributor, since the country favours coal for its electricity generation. And biomass cofiring is ineffective — 2.3 million hectares of land would be required to fire 52 power plants, potentially increasing emissions by 26.5 metric tonnes.