Online, 25. Juni 2026, 10-11 Uhr
The transition towards greener energy is often presented as a necessary pathway to climate protection and sustainable development. Yet, energy transitions in countries like Indonesia and Sri Lanka are embedded in complex political, economical and social structures. The event explores national policies for infrastructure development and energy transition, international investment interests and resistance of local communities.
Although Sri Lanka and Indonesia have different political and economic contexts, both illustrate how the global push for renewable energy is unfolding under unequal conditions shaped by globalization, financial dependency, and extractive development models.
Sri Lanka demonstrates how the debt crisis, energy insecurity, and dependence on foreign capital can accelerate renewable energy investments while weakening regulatory oversight and public accountability.
Indonesia highlights how entrenched fossil fuel interests, particularly around coal, continue to shape the country’s energy transition despite international climate financing initiatives such as the JETP.
In both cases, renewable energy expansion risks reproducing existing inequalities through land dispossession, environmental degradation, human rights violations, exclusion of local communities, and concentration of economic power.
West Papua, the regional focus in Indonesia, exemplifies the tensions between economic development, human rights, and sustainable transformation: extractive industries and large-scale agribusiness drive growth while often leading to land conflicts, environmental degradation, and the marginalization of Indigenous communities. Even renewable energy initiatives—such as bioenergy or the extraction of transition minerals — can intensify these contradictions rather than resolve them.
The webinar explores how the current shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy – driven by foreign investment, geopolitical interests and market-oriented approaches – can develop into a “just transition” taking into account broader questions of justice, democracy and accountability.
Registrieren Sie sich für das Event via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/rjn4MDfKQiGDla7XSSgD7A
Die Veranstaltung findet auf Englisch statt.
Die Veranstaltung wird gemeinsam von dem Westpapua-Netzwerk, Watch Indonesia!, der Sri Lanka Advocacy und der Stiftung Asienhaus organisiert.