While the United States withdrawal from Indonesia's $20 billion Just Energy Transition Partnership, or JETP, may seem alarming, Japan, which co-leads the partnership with the U.S., has quietly been stepping into the void — but not just to maintain the status quo.
Japanese agencies have been advancing their own vision for Indonesia’s energy future, one that favors Japanese-developed technologies over the rapid coal phaseout originally envisioned.
The shift has the potential to mark a fundamental change in how the world's sixth-largest greenhouse gas emitter approaches its energy transition, with competing Japanese initiatives now offering Indonesia different — and possibly conflicting — pathways away from coal.