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Indonesia’s vast nickel reserves position it to move beyond raw material exports into higher-value processing and manufacturing for electric vehicles, batteries, green steel, and renewable energy. Whether that industrial growth runs on coal or on the country’s large renewable energy potential will shape Indonesia’s decarbonization pathway and could offer a model for low-carbon industrialization across Southeast Asia and other regions.
From May 2025 through June 2026, CCSI examined how to advance Indonesia’s green industrialization goals by aligning mining, industrial, clean energy, and circular economy policies and mobilizing sustainable finance to support them. The project was funded by Yayasan Visi Indonesia Raya Emisi Nol Bersih (ViriyaENB).
The research, validated with Indonesian stakeholders at a June 2026 workshop in Jakarta, resulted in three reports and a shared project appendix published in September 2026. Each report analyzes one pillar of the project and sets out recommendations for Indonesian government institutions, industry, financiers, and other stakeholders.
A Mining–Energy–Industry Feedback Loop in Indonesia’s Nickel Sector: Structure, Benefits, and Enabling Conditions shows how the concentrated, round-the-clock demand of nickel mines and industrial parks can anchor bankable renewable energy projects and sets out the conditions under which shared-use energy infrastructure becomes viable.
Integrating Circular Economy Principles and Practices in Indonesia’s Nickel Sector: Overview, Benefits, and Enabling Conditions assesses how circular practices, from reusing mining waste and by-products to battery recycling and industrial symbiosis in industrial parks, can strengthen the sector’s competitiveness and identifies the conditions for integrating them into Indonesia’s green industrial policies.
Financing Indonesia’s Green Industrialization: System Pathways, Structural Diagnosis, and Tailored Solutions diagnoses why capital continues to flow toward captive coal and identifies financing and risk-sharing solutions tailored to the mining–energy–industry feedback loop and to circularity in nickel value chains.
The project appendix, Green Industrialization in Indonesia: Landscape and Trends in the Energy Sector and Critical Minerals Value Chains, with a Focus on Nickel, provides background on Indonesia’s energy sector, renewable energy potential, grid interconnection, and nickel value chains that informs all three reports.
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Financing Climate & Sustainable Development / Report
Indonesia’s energy transition requires roughly USD 140 billion annually through 2050. The difficulty is allocation, not volume: only...
Mining, Metals and Resource-based Development / Report
Building circular economy systems that reduce resource pressure, keep materials in use, and support sustainable development...
Designing strategies that integrate sustainability, equity, and long-term economic resilience...
Designing financing architectures that align public and private capital with climate and development priorities....
Strengthening industrial strategies through ambitious and achievable national plans for climate action and sustainable development...
Aligning mining with the Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on resource-rich developing economies...
Designing financial frameworks and strategies that align financial-sector decision-making with real-economy climate and development outcomes....
