One of the key platforms of President Joko Widodo's run for
presidential office in 2014 was his promise to accelerate
Indonesia's movement up the curve in terms of its domestic
infrastructure capacity, to enable Indonesia to compete with other
ASEAN nations in the face of the upcoming ASEAN Economic Community
reforms. A key pillar of this infrastructure plan was the
President's desire to develop 35GW of new power generation
projects. However, the announcement by the Indonesian Government of
aspirational power generation development programs was not a new
phenomenon – the "First Fast Track" program of
10,000MW of new power generation was announced in 2006, and the
"Second Fast Track" program of 10,000MW, coming largely
from renewable energy projects, was announced in 2010. To date, the
realization of the targets of both of these programs has been
average-to-poor, and industry has cited the myriad Indonesian laws
and regulations, and matrix of Indonesian
