FPCI Urges Tangible Action on Renewable Energy Adoption

Founder of the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia (FPCI), Dino Patti Djalal, has urged Indonesia to make tangible changes in the adoption of renewable energy, following the lead of other countries around the world. “Pakistan… in five years, it rose from 2 per cent to 32 per cent (renewable energy). Brazil is already at 90 per cent (renewable energy), if I am not mistaken. The increase has been quite drastic,” Dino said during a media briefing in Jakarta on Wednesday. He also noted that Sri Lanka is increasingly using solar power and that Uruguay, which initially depended on fossil fuels, is now predominantly using renewable energy. Nevertheless, Dino stressed that this is not enough, as the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables faces a greater challenge: implementing the energy transition programmes themselves. On 9 July, President Prabowo Subianto revealed the government’s plan to build a number of solar power plants with a total capacity reaching 100 GW within two years. At the launch of the B50 mandate at the KM 57 Rest Area on the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road in Karawang, West Java, the President explained that the solar plants are one way for Indonesia to build energy self-sufficiency while reducing carbon emissions. Meanwhile, Managing Director of the Energy Shift Institute, Putra Adhiguna, encouraged Indonesia to focus on realising the use of renewable energy within the next 12 to 24 months. “Politics in Indonesia sometimes changes; today it is A, two years later it has changed… whereas in building the energy transition, there is much we can do quickly… okay, 100 gigawatts, but also pay attention to the small things. We want to see the needle shift,” Putra explained. On the same occasion, Co-founder of Bicara Udara, Novita Natalia Kusumawardani, said that Indonesia could emulate Thailand, which has good coordination between the central government and local governments in tackling air pollution. “The coordination between the central government and the city government works, so the data used can be the same using the same database, and the calculations are also the same,” Novita said. According to her, this is something Indonesia can replicate, as data in the country is still scattered across various ministries and managed separately, meaning it is not yet integrated into a unified system. “This could also be an example when we want to discuss emission targets; we also need to look at what data is used and the methodology must be the same,” she added. The FPCI will host the Indonesia Net Zero Summit (INZS) 2026 on 1 August in Jakarta, carrying the theme ‘It’s Time to Deliver!’. The FPCI stated that the choice of theme reflects a critical momentum when global and national climate commitments must begin to be translated into real action.