Could rising gas prices supercharge Indonesia’s shift to clean energy?
Anyone who lives in or has visited Jakarta will have seen the motorcycles: slipping between cars, gathering at intersections, carrying passengers, food orders, parcels, tools, and stock for small businesses. They are often treated as part of the traffic problem, but in Indonesia they are the backbone of the transportation system. With around 139 million two-wheel vehicles on the road, Indonesia’s motorcycle market is the third largest in the world, but less than 1% of those are electric.