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Indonesia could seize the opportunity of new demand streams for solar PV by learning from other Southeast Asian countries.

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In a rural office on Bengkalis Island, off the northeast coast of Sumatra, 30-year-old Mayasari runs a mask dyed with tree sap through an antique sewing machine. The day before, Mayasari, who goes by one name, and a dozen other women in Pedekik village learned to make hand sanitizer with an extract from the mangrove trees that fringe the coast. “Alhamdulillah [praise be to god] — if this comes from nature in Bengkalis, then it’s great,” Mayasari said. The Bengkalis training is the first government program aimed at addressing the double hit from COVID-19 and climate change among mangrov...

Mangroves have an outsize role in sequestering planet-heating carbon dioxide emissions but they are disappearing fast in Indonesia

Farmer Musdi Siraju, 19, picked his way down the steep, slippery mountainside in bare feet, on his way to a grove of coconut palms, canarium and nutmeg trees where he works every day to support his family on eastern Indonesia's Makian Island.