Nuclear Energy Renaissance in Southeast Asia: A Role for China?
Zha Daojiong
As Southeast Asian countries ponder the use of nuclear power, China looks set to be a key player.

Zha Daojiong
As Southeast Asian countries ponder the use of nuclear power, China looks set to be a key player.
Peh Ko Hsu|Siwage Dharma Negara
Indonesia seeks to shield society from inflation while managing the fiscal deficit. The immediate policy responses must not detract from the country’s paramount transition toward renewable energy.
Le Hong Hiep
Vietnam has limited room for manoeuvre on the energy front as supply tightens, but is proactively playing the hand it has been dealt.
JC Punongbayan
The discovery of substantial natural gas deposits in the Philippines does not obviate the need for the country to make a longer-term transition to renewables.
Le Hong Hiep
In Vietnam, an impasse over feed-in-tariffs for renewable energy producers threatens foreign investors’ confidence in government policies
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.
Iim Halimatusa’diyah
It is not clear that some of Indonesia’s renewable energy projects are designed with the people in mind. Some local communities and traditional Islamic boarding schools are pushing back.
Iim Halimatusa’diyah|Aptiani Nur Jannah|Grace Rachmanda
Green transition in Indonesia is hampered by Indonesian Muslims’ belief that climate change is a sign of the end times.
Mirza Sadaqat Huda
ASEAN needs to overhaul its practice of energy diplomacy in Southeast Asia to address the challenges facing energy transition in the region.
Renard Siew
A new Malaysian scheme aimed at selling renewable energy to large corporate customers is a step in the right direction. But more can be done.