Insights
Our original articles that highlight the trends, tensions, and oppotunities shaping today’s transition landscape.
Indonesia’s Aluminium Pipeline Reveals a Structural Power Gap of at Least 4 GW
This article is one of the insight pieces of Earthwise Institute’s study series: Indonesia Power Summary. All data analysed during this article will also be publicly available by February 2026. Insight Summary: Indonesia’s rapidly expanding aluminium pipeline...
Indonesia’s Nickel Sector Is Becoming Asset-Anchored, While Its EV Downstream Is Diverging from Coal Based Power Pathways
This article is one of the insight pieces of Earthwise Institute’s study series: Indonesia Power Summary. All data analysed during this article will also be publicly available by February 2026. Insight Summary: Indonesia’s nickel sector is increasingly evolving...
Indonesia’s Captive Coal Is a Newly Built Industrial System – Anchored in Nickel, Aluminium, and a Few Mega Industrial Parks
This article is one of the insight pieces of Earthwise Institute’s study series: Indonesia Power Summary. All data analysed during this article will also be publicly available by February 2026. Insight Summary: Earthwise Institute is releasing its new...
Oligopolistic Ownership and a Shifting Centre of Control: Indonesian Firms Edge Ahead of Chinese Owners as Captive Coal Expands from Nickel to Aluminium and PV
This article is one of the insight pieces of Earthwise Institute’s study series: Indonesia Power Summary. All data analysed during this article will also be publicly available by February 2026. Insight Summary: This analysis examines ownership patterns in...
Indonesia’s Captive Coal Pipeline Is Large but Not Yet Locked In: Future Capacity Hinges on a Narrow Set of Actors, New Industrial Parks, and Unsettled Aluminium and PV Pathways
This article is one of the insight pieces of Earthwise Institute’s study series: Indonesia Power Summary. All data analysed during this article will also be publicly available by February 2026. Insight Summary: Indonesia’s captive coal pipeline is substantial,...
Indonesian Captive Coal Financing Became Opaquer: Policy Banks Withdrew, Commercial Banks Carried On
This article is one of the insight pieces of Earthwise Institute’s study series: Indonesia Power Summary. All data analysed during this article will also be publicly available by February 2026. Insight Summary: This analysis shows that captive coal financing in...
Despite Energy Transition Rhetoric, Captive Coal Financing in Indonesia is Deepening its Lock-in, Anchored by Nickel Megaprojects, Emerging Aluminium Hubs, and Enduring Reliance across Industrial Parks and National Champions
This article is one of the insight pieces of Earthwise Institute’s study series: Indonesia Power Summary. All data analysed during this article will also be publicly available by February 2026. Insight Summary: Evidence from transaction level debt financing...
Singaporean Banks Lead Secondary Lenders in Reinforcing Indonesia’s Captive Coal Industrial Lock-in
This article is one of the insight pieces of Earthwise Institute’s study series: Indonesia Power Summary. All data analysed during this article will also be publicly available by February 2026. Insight Summary: This analysis focuses on non-dominant...
Absence of MDB and DFI Did Not Curb Captive Coal: Commercial Banks Replaced Policy Banks After 2019
This article is one of the insight pieces of Earthwise Institute’s study series: Indonesia Power Summary. All data analysed during this article will also be publicly available by February 2026. Insight Summary: The financing architecture surrounding captive...
A Dozen Chinese and Indonesian Companies Lock Captive Coal Financing: First Through Nickel, Now Aluminium
This article is one of the insight pieces of Earthwise Institute’s study series: Indonesia Power Summary. All data analysed during this article will also be publicly available by February 2026. Insight Summary: Captive coal financing in Indonesia is...
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