It’s official: Indonesian State Minister of Research and Technology Kusmayanto Kadiman announced late last month that the tendering process for new nuclear power plants, expected to be completed by the end of the year, have been postponed indefinitely .

The process has lacked political support and with presidential elections due in July, the government has pulled the plug. Kusmayanto said, ‘It's impossible to decide now. For the fastest, it will possibly take at last six more years.’ This destroys plans to have a nuclear power plant operating in the 2016-2019 timeframe established by Indonesian Law No. 17/2007.

But that’s nuclear power for you - buried in uncertainties, mired in political uncertainties, and subject to massive timescales while the climate change clock is ticking.

Meanwhile, the sun is shining on the Indonesian solar energy industry. It’s providing jobs and improving lives right now.