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Adi Renaldi

Southeast Asia Correspondent

Thomson Reuters Foundation

Adi Renaldi is the Southeast Asia Correspondent at Context. Before that he was a freelance journalist for dozens publications around the world.

October 22, 2024

When Jayden Goh started his battery recycling company in 2019, he was betting that rapid electrification of everything from cars to energy storage would make salvaging critical minerals from spent cells a pressing demand in Southeast Asia.

Five years later, the Malaysian entrepreneur’s EcoNiLi has expanded from its original small facility in West Java to operate four factories in three countries with annual capacity to recycle 86,000 tonnes of lithium-ion batteries, which are used by electric vehicles.

September 18, 2024

Indonesia accounts for more than half of the global palm oil supply, the world’s most widely used vegetable oil that is found in everything from food to cosmetics to fuel.

But environmentalists fear surging demand for the versatile product may drive mass deforestation in Indonesia, home to the world’s third-largest tropical rainforest, and exacerbate the global climate crisis.

August 15, 2024

A grand new state palace shaped like the mythical bird Garuda towers over a dusty construction site: a mass of steel and concrete emerging from the once-pristine forests of Borneo.

It is the centrepiece of Nusantara: Indonesia's new capital city, and the president is already hard at work inside.