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Indonesia’s Election

 * Prabowo Subianto Projected to Win
 * What to Know
 * Who Is Prabowo?
 * His Approach to Climate Change
 * Fears of Democracy Backsliding



A nickel processing plant in Sulawesi. Indonesia has vast supplies of nickel,
which is critical to battery manufacturing.Credit...Ulet Ifansasti for The New
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INDONESIA’S VOTE: THREE TAKEAWAYS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

The presumed winner supports policies that have led to a boom in coal-burning,
but also to the creation of a nascent electric-battery industry.

A nickel processing plant in Sulawesi. Indonesia has vast supplies of nickel,
which is critical to battery manufacturing.Credit...Ulet Ifansasti for The New
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By Somini Sengupta

 * Feb. 14, 2024Updated 2:11 p.m. ET

Coal, nickel, palm oil, rainforests.

The riches of Indonesia matter to the rest of the world. Therefore, so does its
presidential election.

Early results on Wednesday in the world’s third-largest democracy signaled the
victory of Prabowo Subianto, a former army general linked to human rights
abuses, as the country’s next president. The new government’s approach on the
management of its natural resources could have a significant effect on the
world’s ability to keep global warming to relatively safe levels.
Environmentalists are also watching what the vote might mean for their ability
to operate freely in a country with a history of repression.

Indonesia is the world’s largest exporter of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel and
something that the world must quickly stop burning in order to avoid the worst
consequences of global warming. But Indonesia also has huge reserves of nickel,
which is critical to battery-making and the transition to cleaner energy.


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Prabowo Subianto at a campaign stop in Bali this month.Credit...Made Nagi/EPA,
via Shutterstock


Mr. Prabowo has said that he supports transitioning the country away from coal
power, though gradually. He also supports a ban on exports of raw nickel,
designed to encourage a homegrown battery-making industry, that has been in
place for several years.

Those two initiatives clash.

Processing nickel requires vast amounts of energy. So, Indonesia has been on a
binge of building new coal-burning power plants. That, in turn, has driven up
Indonesia’s emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases.

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Somini Sengupta is the international climate reporter on the Times climate team.
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