This policy brief describes some of the barriers to just transitions from coal in Indonesia and provides recommendations to government officials, researchers and practitioners on how to overcome these barriers.
The recommendations, while aiming to inform policy and practice on just transition in Indonesia, can also be useful for other countries in the region and beyond that are facing just transition of important fossil fuel-based economies. The brief draws insights from a multi-stakeholder workshop and two reports produced as part of the cross-country project on just transitions from coal in Colombia, Indonesia and South Africa (Bößner et al., 2023; IESR, 2024).
Initiative / The Carbon Lock-In Initiative seeks to uncover and address the barriers that uphold the fossil fuel-based economy.
SEI brief / Challenges highlighted here inform policy, development cooperation and private finance, research and on-the-ground projects, for researchers and practitioners.
SEI report / This report analyses how just energy transitions figure into the policies of southeast Asian countries and China.
SEI brief / This brief summarizes the dynamics and challenges of the just transition from coal in South Africa.
