Indonesia carbon market — week of 26 October 2026
By Andy Fajar Handika, Founder, KarbonLens · Published
This week in numbers
- 101,514 new satellite alerts across 5 monitored projects
- 5 new regulatory events
- IDXCarbon Rp 66,352/tCO₂e avg (-15.1% MoM)
Satellite alerts
- Kapuas Pisau Conservation Project — Central Kalimantan: 33,344 new alerts
- Mobuya Mini Hydro Power Plant 3 x 1000 kW North Sulawesi, Indonesia — North Sulawesi Province: 15,962 new alerts
- Halmahera Zero-Waste Renewable Energy and Biochar Project — North Maluku: 9,616 new alerts
- OKI REDD+ Project — South Sumatera province: 4,977 new alerts
- Muara Teweh Conservation Project — Central Kalimantan Tengah: 4,046 new alerts
Regulatory
**Carbon project verification suspension** (2025-05-20 — KLH/KLHK) — Indonesia reportedly paused the verification process for a carbon project while regulatory concerns were reviewed. The action affects the project’s progression through the carbon-credit approval proc…
**Forestry carbon trading program** (2025-03-14 — Ministry of Forestry/KLHK) — The item reports that Indonesia planned to start a forestry-focused carbon trading program. The available information does not state a specific decree or regulation number.
**International carbon trading platform launch** (2025-01-20 — OJK/KLH) — Indonesia opened a channel for international carbon trading on the regulated carbon-trading platform. The development broadened the exchange framework beyond purely domestic transactions, subject to…
**Draft carbon tax regulation** (2024-08-24 — Ministry of Finance) — The finance minister indicated that Indonesia was preparing regulations for a carbon tax policy. No final instrument number or effective date was stated in the supplied item.
**Carbon exchange launch / exchange authorization** (2023-09-26 — OJK) — Indonesia began operating IDXCarbon as the national venue for regulated carbon-credit trading. The launch implemented the supervised exchange model for domestic carbon market transactions.
Prices
The IDXCarbon 2026-09 snapshot shows volume 1,009 tCO₂e (+344.5% MoM), average price Rp 66,352/tCO₂e (-15.1% MoM), total value Rp 66,950,000. See the full monthly view.
Methodology spotlight
In spotlight this week: **NEK** — Indonesia's official term for 'carbon economic value' — the umbrella framework introduced by Perpres 98/2021 that covers pricing, trading, taxes, and result-based payments.
*Auto-generated from this week's KarbonLens data refresh. See the projects explorer for the full registry.*
Auto-composed from KarbonLens's weekly data refresh. Numbers and links are verified against the source tables at publish time; see methodology for the data sources.