Energy Trade in Southeast Asia: The Need to Address Resource Nationalism
Mirza Sadaqat Huda
Resource nationalism can impede energy cooperation in Southeast Asia. ASEAN can use a mix of carrots and sticks to deal with it.

Mirza Sadaqat Huda
Resource nationalism can impede energy cooperation in Southeast Asia. ASEAN can use a mix of carrots and sticks to deal with it.
Anissa R. Suharsono|Yanuar Nugroho
The Prabowo government’s ambitious goal for Indonesia of achieving energy self-sufficiency faces significant challenges due to the country’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels and renewed large-scale biofuel ambitions.
Mirza Sadaqat Huda
A number of policy frameworks have been developed at the regional and national levels to facilitate a just energy transition, but the implementation of these policies is constrained by low levels of public participation, lack of financing and fossil fuel lobbies.
Adoracion M. Navarro
The Philippines is reviving an interest in developing nuclear energy. But it needs to first address key considerations such as public trust, safety and waste management.
Vinod Thomas
Artificial intelligence can help resolve climate change problems, but only if the massive energy consumed by data centres comes from green sources.
Mirza Sadaqat Huda
Trump’s rent-seeking foreign policy pertaining to energy and critical minerals will force Southeast Asian countries to do what they least desire: making a choice between China and the US.
Mirza Sadaqat Huda
It’s time to incorporate new key priorities into the pact to better address current realities of energy interconnection and serve future needs.
Kevin Zongzhe Li
The region has a chance to rely on tools like blended finance to power its green transition. The time to act, however, is running out.
Amalina Anuar
A legal confrontation between Petronas and Sarawak’s oil and gas company would not be productive. The dispute should be resolved using new political and economic arrangements.
Tricia Yeoh
A potential legal tussle between Sarawak and Petronas has implications for Malaysia’s approach to development and for the country as a whole.