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Introduction
The last few years of the COVID-19 pandemic have been considerably challenging for
Indonesia’s energy sector. The production of fossil fuels and renewable energy were
significantly impacted due to falling demand and consumption by the residential and
industrial sectors. In 2020, Indonesia’s transportation sector received a major blow
because of regional stay-at-home restrictions that prevented many people from having the
ability to travel within and beyond the country. This caused the consumption of fossil fuels
such as oil and natural gas to decline due to the lack of transportation use. On the other
hand, renewables received even smaller attention due to the government’s priorities
shifting to preserve the monopoly of its fossil fuels industry. However, as the world began
to accept the grim reality of living side-by-side with the virus in 2021, energy production
started to increase once again. As Indonesia’s leading politicians scatter to devise plans to
reach a sustainable energy transition by 2025, can the country really shift its focus to take
advantage of its massive renewable potential going forward?
This commentary is a brief analysis of Indonesia’s energy production and consumption
trend from before and after the COVID-19 pandemic between 2018 to 2021 and what this
means for Indonesia’s energy roadmap post-2025.