Journal of International Studies on Energy Affairs

The Challenges of Greenpeace Indonesia's Supports on One Map Policy Indonesia

Gita Nurhidayah — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

As a branch of international non-governmental organization (NGO), Greenpeace Indonesia has been supporting the policy of One Map Policy (OMP) Indonesia since 2017. This policy is essential to manage the forestry and land in Indonesia as deforestation is rising. Despite comprehensive support to OMP, Greenpeace Indonesia did not successfully push the Indonesian government to take severe attempts for the OMP legalization. This paper examines the challenges that Greenpeace Indonesia faces in this support. We elaborate on this problem by explaining it through the theory of International NGO Challenges in policy engagement. This theoretical framework is usually used to describe any possible opportunities and challenges for non-state actors to influence government policies. Our research is based on the literature review with the qualitative method. We argue that Greenpeace Indonesia has several challenges that hinder its support of OMP Legalization. Those are both internal coordination and external condition, especially regarding the advocacy system in Indonesia.

How Iran Overrides IAEA to Examine Iran's Nuclear Energy Development

Widya S. R. Sihotang — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

In human life, weapons of mass destruction pose a threat to all. Since the era of war has ended, the international world has no longer felt the presence of weapons of mass destruction. The research question found by the author in this article is Iran's efforts to deal with the IAEA which implements a unilateral policy to conduct inspections of Iran's nuclear energy. In addition, the author also limits the discussion to only the efforts made by Iran in rejecting the IAEA's actions to examine nuclear development in Iran. Before discussing these points, the author will provide a discussion of the reasons why the IAEA wants to examine Iran's nuclear development first. With the limitations of this research, the author can describe the discussion specifically and get good results. Neoliberal Institutionalism as one of the major theories of International Relations is the main point of view used by the author to analyze the formulation of the problem. Basically, Iran did not accept the examination submitted by the IAEA because Iran found the fact that the IAEA allegedly leaked some Iranian nuclear secrets so that Iran had lost confidence in the IAEA.

China's efforts to achieve energy interests in the Arctic region

Mega Anggraini, Inda, Sofia Trisni — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The study examined Chinese efforts to obtain arctic energy interests during crises such as the melting of ice caps and not the ownership of much of the region itself. For the BRI to effectively facilitate the development of micro, small, and medium enterprises, alternative energy sources must be supported. However, it is challenging the policies of some countries in the arctic region. The study utilized qualitative methods and secondary data. Using Bernard D.D. Cole's energy security theories, we examine the challenges that China and Chinese diplomacy would face. China has utilized its diplomatic relations and cooperation to promote global energy diplomacy by scouring or exploiting existing resources through the first two stages of global energy diplomacy. Second, the birth of a policy is that of silk polar road. This is a tangible form of white paper released in arctic, which contained Chinese interests and objectives and Chinese responsibilities to the arctic region.

The REPowerEU: An EU Climate Ambitions and Its Implications On Russian-European Energy Geopolitics Stability

Abd Azis, Tiara Marshanda Andrian, Dinda Nurhaliza Akhrianti — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000

As the third largest carbon-emitting country in the world, the European Union has more responsibility to address the problem of preventing climate change. However, the climate management policies implemented by the European Union need to be more effective to achieve the long-term targets in the Paris Agreement. Responding to this, the European Union is planning a new policy, REPowerEU. REPowerEU is a follow-up effort from the European Union towards a clean energy transition and a form of Europe's anger towards Russia's geopolitical energy behaviour. In addition, the REPowerEU Plan is a tool the European Union uses to break away from energy dependence on Russia so that it can be more independent in determining foreign policy. This study aims to assess the impact of the implementation of the European Union's energy policy on Russian-European political stability. This study uses qualitative methods by collecting data through literature studies. This research is analyzed using the neoclassical realism paradigm based on energy geopolitics. It found that there are positive and negative impact in applying REPowerEU to decrease dependency of Russia’s energy supply to Europe.