Accompanied by their successors for the Leaders’ Retreat at Bogor Palace in West Java on Monday, President Jokowi and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong celebrated their achievements in bilateral ties over the past decade and promised continued cooperation.

“We [the government] will continue to encourage plans to export [solar-powered] electricity to Singapore, including investment for supporting green industries,” President Jokowi said during the meeting on Monday.

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Indonesia has sent out mixed signals regarding the export of power from renewable sources. 

In June 2022, the Investment Ministry pushed for a ban on such exports, arguing that the country needed to ensure it had enough green power for its own industries, despite an announcement that the government had begun working on a new regulatory framework to enable the operation just a few months prior.

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The Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, though, said there was more than enough potential to meet domestic and export needs.

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