Volcano erupting, and people still showed up to ICBS 2026 by train, car, sleeper bus — even motorbike all the way from Jogja 😳🔥 Cleanomic was there as official media partner for 2 days in Bali. Swipe/read for the recap: avoidance vs. removal credits, why early carbon projects need VC-level risk appetite, what the Minister of Environment said about carbon + community prosperity, and the challenges nobody's fully solved yet.

Volcano eruption, online school again, airport chaos, a detour to Jogja — this trip to Bali felt like a full-on Covid-era déjà vu. But we finally made it, and tomorrow Cleanomic is officially media partner for day two of the Carbon and Biodiversity Summit 2026! While we wait, here's a quick recap of what's happening in the carbonsphere: a new waste-sector carbon trading rule, SRUK insights from the AACM x S&P Global roundtable, a new blue carbon project from Carbonethics, and

[my family's paddy field in Banjaran, West Java - watercolor with natural pigment by Aldy] My family has grown rice for generations. To this day, we almost never buy rice at the supermarket — because we grow our own. For me, a plate of rice has never been a commodity - it is the labour of my family for generations. So when I started noticing "rice" and "paddy fields" appearing everywhere lately — in the pitch decks of carbon startups, in presidential speeches, in headlines a

Indonesia's carbon market just hit a milestone: the Carbon Unit Registry System (SRUK) is finally live under Perpres 110/2025 and OJK's new rules. But as I learned last week at the MPR, representing ACEXI in an audience with Pak Eddy Soeparno, infrastructure is only the start. In this Eco-Lawgic edition I unpack what comes next: market fostering, the Climate Change Bill (RUU Iklim), a national carbon body, BPDLH's Rp22 trillion shift to Kemenko Pangan, and the legal puzzle of

Indonesia's carbon market just got its backbone: SRUK, the new Carbon Unit Registry System under Perpres 110/2025, went live this week, paired with OJK's POJK 10/2026 tightening Carbon Exchange rules. Trading volume is still thin, but the infrastructure is finally in place, and carbon units are increasingly treated as an asset class. The real test ahead: making sure benefits and fraud safeguards actually reach communities on the ground.