Perspective
24 May 2016
Jokowi shows he means business in Indonesian Power
Region:
Asia-Pacific
The size of the target – 15, 35 or 43 gigawatts (GW) – is open to dispute, but there is less argument about whether the Indonesian government is serious about its plans to add power capacity at a fast rate. The country’s administration, led by President Joko Widodo (or Jokowi for short), has been in office since October 2014, and has already managed to spur some progress in Indonesia’s notoriously sclerotic independent power sector.
