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Synergizing biodiversity conservation and social cohesion for sustainable economic transformation in Indonesia
Ahead of COP30 in Brazil, CELIOS released a policy brief highlighting the importance of a socio-bioeconomic approach—integrating biodiversity conservation and social justice into Indonesia’s economic transformation. The document responds to BAPPENAS’s bioeconomy strategy, stressing that sustainable development must go beyond simply replacing raw materials and must ensure the participation of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and vulnerable groups. CELIOS maps out three stages of transformat
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The green ambition trap for forests: Japan's energy transition and the harmful illegal biomass exports to Indonesia
Indonesia is beginning to look to wood biomass as one alternative in the energy transition, legitimized through the Energy Plantation (HTE) scheme under Minister of Environment and Forestry Regulation No. 62 of 2021 on diversifying the functions of forest areas to support national energy security. Wood biomass in the form of wood pellets and wood chips is being promoted for co-firing with coal at power plants and touted as a way to reduce dependence on fossil energy. However, a CELIOS study
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