The Indonesian government has looked to coal gasification to create market demand for downstream coal, but analysts warn such projects are unlikely to be financially viable, especially as major global investors turn away from coal.
Environmentalists have attributed recent heavy floods in southern Indonesian Borneo to widespread deforestation for oil palm plantations and coal mines.
Cities around the world have seen an improvement in air quality as a result of lockdowns and restrictions imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Jakarta has been a notable exception.
A biodiverse patch of forest in Sumatra threatened by encroaching oil palm plantations and illegal logging could soon be carved up by a road for coal trucks.
Citizens of countries participating in China's Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, strongly prefer clean energy over the coal projects that have become Beijing's calling card, a new survey shows.
A far-reaching corruption scandal centered on a proposed power plant in Indonesia has cast a shadow over the country's risky reliance on coal as a supposedly cheap source of energy.
