Travel restrictions during the pandemic prevented many countries from finding new cross-border business partners and that resulted in a sharp drop in Indonesia’s export. Indonesia’s total export (billion dollar) declined by 28.95 percent year-on-year in May 2020. To arrest the situation, Indonesia quickly stepped in with an experiment to facilitate online business matching for itsContinue reading “#Indonesia’s effort to facilitate online business matchings for Indonesian private sector with overseas companies is starting to pay off #SoutheastAsia #Asean #Business #Economy”
Category Archives: Circular Economy
United Kingdom to further cooperate with #Indonesia in tackling climate change and expressed keen interest to kickstart a joint leadership initiative relating to agriculture and forestry #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability
Representatives from United Kingdom and Indonesia met to discuss about the preparation leading up to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). COP26 is an international cooperation that addresses the ESG issues that the world faces and also to encourage each other towards a zero carbon economy. The event is currently scheduledContinue reading “United Kingdom to further cooperate with #Indonesia in tackling climate change and expressed keen interest to kickstart a joint leadership initiative relating to agriculture and forestry #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability”
#Thailand has partnered #Japan to kick off its Bio-Circular-Green Economy with its prototype recycling plant #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability #Recycle
Back in January, Thailand declared that they would adopt the Bio-Circular-Green Economy model (BCG model) as part of their national strategy to reduce dependency on foreign investments and build capabilities in the field of biomaterial, cultural diversity, food, biodiversity, agriculture, creative economy, medical, tourism, biochemical, wellness and bioenergy. To kick off the BCG model, ThailandContinue reading “#Thailand has partnered #Japan to kick off its Bio-Circular-Green Economy with its prototype recycling plant #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability #Recycle”
#Indonesia has begun carbon trading trials to support the reduction of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) by around 350 million tonnes by 2030 #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability
Indonesia has began to conduct carbon trading trials in the electricity sector, beginning from now and estimated to end by August 2021. This move is expected to help with the reduction of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the energy sector. Indonesia plans to reduce the emission by around 350 million tonnes by 2030. ThisContinue reading “#Indonesia has begun carbon trading trials to support the reduction of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) by around 350 million tonnes by 2030 #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability”
The importance of integrating adaptability with climate risks and sustainability solutions #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability #ClimateRisk
I recalled an incident during my postgraduate study that made me reflect deeply about how proposed solutions are shaped by one’s experiences. We were doing project work that required us to propose solutions to climate risks issues. The team comprised people from different nationalities. People from a mixture of developed and developing countries. Half anContinue reading “The importance of integrating adaptability with climate risks and sustainability solutions #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability #ClimateRisk”
#Indonesia is working closely with P4G partners to look into halving food loss and waste by accelerating commercially viable models for sustainable food supply chains and to start investor sessions before April #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability
Indonesia, supported by partners from Citibank, United Nations Environment Programme, The Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development, The Global Food Banking Network and others, wants to explore to create a business case for Food Loss and Waste prevention that could be used for the transformation of markets beyond Indonesia’s border. The aim is to leverageContinue reading “#Indonesia is working closely with P4G partners to look into halving food loss and waste by accelerating commercially viable models for sustainable food supply chains and to start investor sessions before April #SoutheastAsia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability”
#Thailand will push to set up institutes of training for unmanned aerial vehicles as part of their digital drive #Southeast Asia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability #AI #ML #Data #UAV
Thailand would promote and support the development of digital innovation and related technology in order to propel their economy towards digital transformation. This digital journey is expected to create new jobs for its current and upcoming workforce. Seems like a good idea that new jobs will be created but the transformation could cause an imbalanceContinue reading “#Thailand will push to set up institutes of training for unmanned aerial vehicles as part of their digital drive #Southeast Asia #Asean #ESG #Sustainability #AI #ML #Data #UAV”
#Indonesia is banking on using a hybrid system of solar panels and hydropower floating platforms to achieve their #sustainability and #renewable energy goals #ESG #Asean #SoutheastAsia
Indonesia’s upcoming energy replacement strategy would mainly depend on harnessing hydropower and solar energy thereby reducing and maybe even to the extent of eliminating fossil fuel imports. Several considerations surfaced during their internal discussions when considering the energy alternatives. The top concerns were the price of implementing the projects plus the land space required forContinue reading “#Indonesia is banking on using a hybrid system of solar panels and hydropower floating platforms to achieve their #sustainability and #renewable energy goals #ESG #Asean #SoutheastAsia”
Why renewable energy may not always be clean? #Renewable #Clean #Environment #Geothermal #Pollution #ESG #Sustainability
Today, I decided to write about renewable energy because I think there’s a little bit of misunderstanding about this term and I want to shed some light on it. As many are already aware of, renewable energy is a buzz word. This term gets thrown across the room a lot of times, and often pairedContinue reading “Why renewable energy may not always be clean? #Renewable #Clean #Environment #Geothermal #Pollution #ESG #Sustainability”
#Indonesia is expected to further collaborate with #Hungary to continue to receive their water treatment expertise #Water #Renewable #ESG #Sustainability #Data #AI #SouthEastAsia
As part of Hungary’s earlier efforts to help their small and medium enterprises that are specialising in waterworks, the Budapest Waterworks submitted and won a tender from Indonesia to provide water for 35 Indonesian communities. This was part of the Hungary government’s plan to provide opportunities for the Hungarian companies to be involved in internationalContinue reading “#Indonesia is expected to further collaborate with #Hungary to continue to receive their water treatment expertise #Water #Renewable #ESG #Sustainability #Data #AI #SouthEastAsia”
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