Indonesia’s Quiet Bid for a Seat in South America’s Oil Rush eyesonindonesia Indonesia’s state oil company is circling the Guyana-Suriname basin, one of the world’s hottest offshore frontiers. It is not yet a player like Exxon or TotalEnergies, but it wants to become one. First, a reality check The premise needs a small correction. Pertamina…
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eyesonindonesia Amsterdam, August 31, 2026 – For a country of nearly 280 million people — the fourth most populous nation on Earth — Indonesia has spent decades punching far below its weight in the sport it loves most. A single World Cup appearance, in 1938, made under Dutch colonial rule and playing as the “Dutch…
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MODERN FOOTBALL FOR INDONESIA eyesonindonesia Rapidly transcending its historical identity as a commercial gateway, Surabaya has strategically positioned itself at the epicenter of Southeast Asia’s technological and athletic evolution. The East Javanese metropolis is rapidly emerging as a premier regional hub for Artificial Intelligence innovation, attracting tech enterprises, research institutes, and venture capital. Through state-of-the-art…
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eyesonindonesia Amsterdam, August 17, 2026 – If Brazil is the new frontier for Dutch investment, Indonesia is the old one that never really closed. For four centuries the two countries’ histories have been entangled — colonially, then commercially, and now, increasingly, technically. The Netherlands is Indonesia’s second-largest trading partner in Europe and its biggest European…
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Forests That Feed People eyesonindonesia In the 1980s, a Swiss farmer named Ernst Götsch arrived in the drought-cracked hills of southern Bahia, Brazil, and did something that looked, to his neighbors, like madness. Instead of clearing more land, he planted it thicker — banana next to eucalyptus next to cacao next to forest hardwood —…
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How Indonesia’s Climate Finance Strategy Stacks Up Against Brazil’s Eco Invest Brazil built one clear, repeatable front door for green capital. Indonesia built an entire wing of doors — bigger in scale, richer in ambition, but a genuinely different experience for the investor trying to find the right one to knock on. eyesonindonesia Amsterdam, July…
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Inside Japan’s Seawater-Powered Energy Vessel eyesonindonesia There’s a viral image making the rounds: a sleek white research ship slicing through Pacific waters, its hull painted with the words “海水から、未来のエネルギーへ” — “From seawater, to the energy of the future.” The caption claims Japan has built a vessel that makes its own clean fuel and never needs…
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South Korean scientists have created an artificial leaf that turns sunlight and water into hydrogen — no wires, no grid, no emissions. For sun-drenched Indonesia, it may be a glimpse of the future. Science & Energy Desk · May 2026 · 8 min read eyesonindonesia How the artificial leaf works A Leaf Forged in a…
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Is REDD+ a Green Miracle or a “License to Pollute”? eyesonindonesia In the boardroom of a multinational oil giant and in the deep canopy of the Indonesian rainforest, two very different conversations are happening about the same thing: REDD+. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) was designed as a bridge between the industrial…
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How Haruni Krisnawati is Securing Indonesia’s Green Future eyesonindonesia While global leaders sign declarations under the bright lights of international summits, the real work of saving the planet happens in the details. In Indonesia, that work has a face and a name: Haruni Krisnawati. As the world pivots toward the groundbreaking Tropical Forest Forever Facility…
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