Industry Newsletters

As the world's largest palm oil producer, Indonesia has produced a number of billionaires who have risen to prominence in the industry, as summarized in the following Forbes list and related information: 1. Martua Sitorus: In 1991, he founded Wilmar, which was the world's largest producer of palm oil, and was the world's largest producer of palm oil in the past three years, and has been the world's biggest producer of palm oil since its founding in 1991.

The Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs has reported the results of strategic cooperation with China, signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) involving strategic industrial projects with a total investment of 36.4 trillion dongs, which will be located in the Batang Industrial Park, which has been inaugurated previously. The cooperation covers...

PT Inalum (PT Inalum) plans to build the second phase of its alumina refinery (SGAR Fase 2) in Mempawah, West Kalimantan, as the SGAR Phase 1 expansion project, which is targeted to start production in 2028. The company's managing director said that a ...

Indonesia's Future Energy Investment Authority (BPI Danantara) has announced the opening of the bidding for the first phase of the four-city (Bogor, Bekasi, Denpasar, and Yogyakarta) waste-to-energy plant (PLTSa) project. This is the government's big push to turn waste into...

The state power utility (PLN) has revealed that a large supply of garbage is required to build waste-to-energy plants (PLTSa) at seven locations. To achieve the installed capacity of 197.4 MW, as much as 12,000 tons of garbage will have to be processed every day. PLN general manager said...

The Indonesian government will crack down on Chinese imports that hit local products, targeting more than just second-hand clothing. The Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) said after a meeting at the Ministry of Trade in Jakarta that the government is not only going to regulate the importation of second-hand clothing, but also control that...

The Ministry of Economic Coordination (MEC) recently conducted a visit to PT HLI Green Power's production facility in Karawang, West Java, in order to promote green and sustainable economic transformation and accelerate the development of the national electric vehicle (EV) industry. The Ministry of Economic Coordination's Economic Digitalization...

Indonesia is entering a critical phase of the country's energy transition, and is expected to address the issues of LPG import dependency and increasing municipal waste through an innovative model that combines waste to steam (WTS) and coal to dimethyl ether (DME)...

Indonesia's importation of Chinese trucks has sparked concern among local car companies, which have already been affected. Automotive analysts pointed out that the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Industry for mining and other off-highway commercial vehicles policy regulations lack of synergy. Japanese car companies due to policy...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects global coal demand to peak in 2030, with future market dynamics to be determined by China, India, Indonesia and some Southeast Asian countries, where about half of coal demand is for power generation. IEA...