Indonesia
Indonesia was one of six countries to participate in the Asia Regional Workshop held in Phnom Penh on May 2005. Prior to the workshop, in-country consultants, were identified to act as GVEP Focal Points, to assist delegations to prepare a report on the structure of demand for energy at household, enterprise and sector levels in villages and peri-urban areas. Delegations also prepared project concepts which were discussed at the workshop.
The regional workshop brought together energy stakeholders from all key sectors to deepen awareness of energy-poverty issues and energy-related investment opportunities, as well as lay the groundwork for cooperation and further projects. In following a workshop design already successfully used in Africa and Latin America, working groups identified sectors where energy is a key input, and possible inter-sectoral synergies. They reviewed Investment Opportunity proposals from each participating country and initiated discussion between national delegations and the financing community.
Since the workshop, the Poverty Recovery Committee (KPK) has provided a significant support and leadership in bringing together stakeholders, representing government institutions, private sector, financiers, and civil society (NGO, CBO, Universities). A coordination meeting at KPK held to discuss ways to move forwards agreed to optimize the partnership through the following steps:
- Developing a common target, roadmap and milestones to jointly alleviate energy poverty in Indonesia. This is to minimize unnecessary overlaps or reinventing-the-wheel.
- Mainstreaming the issues raised by GVEP under the existing programs in each of the stakeholders.
- Where barrier and gap exists, the KPK (as focal point) with the support of the appointed facilitator would work on mobilizing partnership and resources to remove barrier and fill in the gap.
- Joint programs can be implemented on case-by-case basis, depending on the need.
- The forum shall be expanded to cover other stakeholders, extending the ones that were represented in Regional Worksho
- Assistance is being provided potential project developers in revising their project proposals. This will be followed by a one-to-one investor forum, road show to investors or funding submission to donors, to facilitate these project developers in attracting funding for their project/ business plan.
For further information on activities in Country contact Sarah Adams at sarah.adams@gvep.org
Documents & Articles
Download PDF - GVEP Asia Regional Workshop: Indonesia Project Concept Notes (1822 bytes) 16 May, 2005
Download PDF - GVEP Asia Regional Workshop: Indonesia Country Report (1864 bytes) 16 May, 2005