In March 2022 Indonesia’s fully state-owned electricity company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) announced that it decided to team up with the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement), which is a public financial institution that is focused on implementing policies defined by the French Government with the aim to fight poverty and promote sustainable development, to jointly develop a wind energy plant with a capacity of 200 megawatt (MW) in Pandeglang (in Banten). This project is called the Banten Wind Farm Power Development.

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After months of significant Russian military build-up around the borders of Ukraine – and after Russia had officially recognised two self-proclaimed states in the Donbas region of Ukraine (namely Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics where there had emerged a war between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatists) on 21 February 2022 – Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

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On 7 February 2022, Indonesia’s Statistical Agency (Badan Pusat Statistik, or BPS) announced the latest gross domestic product (GDP) data of Indonesia, covering the final quarter of 2021.

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Last month we discussed the Omicron variant that had officially arrived in Indonesia in late-November 2021.

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