[Full Report] Green Jobs and Just Transition Policy Readiness Assessment in the Energy Sector in Indonesia
Indonesia has shown a growing climate commitment in the recent decade. Since the ratification of the Paris Agreement in 2016 that strengthened its climate pledge, the Government of Indonesia (GoI) has been incorporating climate consideration into its development agenda and policy framework, setting up carbon reduction and net-zero emission targets, and mobilizing resource to achieve the climate ambition.
As part of this effort, the GoI joined UN-PAGE (Partnership for Action in Green Economy) in 2018. This report is part of the ILO support for PAGE Indonesia, which focused on green jobs and ensuring a just transition within the workplace due to the impacts of climate change. This report provides an assessment of the green jobs and just transition policy frameworks and activities at a macro level in Indonesia, reviews the readiness of this policy frameworks at the national level, and analyses green jobs and just transitions readiness specifically in the energy sector in Indonesia.
The energy sector plays a significant role in Indonesia's green economy agenda because of the carbon emission produced by the sector, the coal dependency of the power generation, and its critical role in the Net Zero Emissions (NZE) policy directives. The energy transition has become one of the sub-sets of green economy policy in Indonesia, along with low carbon development and blue economy. It is also set as one of the priority issues of Indonesia's presidency of G20 in 2022, in which just and sustainable aspects of the transition are emphasized.