Why Indonesia’s clean energy still feeds on old inequalities


In this file photo from November 19, 2005, a labourer is seen working at a palm plantation on the outskirts of Medan, North Sumatra. — AFP

INDONESIA’S biodiesel programme is widely celebrated as a national success story, a clean-energy solution built on local resources and financed by our own palm-oil industry.

The B35 mandate, which mixes biodiesel into regular diesel, has become a symbol of energy independence.

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