China and Indonesia are key players in rapidly growing energy markets and clean energy supply chains; both countries demonstrate significant potential for collaboration in driving the global economic transition. As a key industry for addressing climate change, Chinese electric vehicle (EV) value chain companies are accelerating their global expansion, while Indonesia’s strategic position as a resource hub in Southeast Asia makes it a key destination for their overseas investment.
At the same time, the EV value chain faces a range of sustainability challenges, including responsible mineral sourcing, lifecycle carbon emissions management, and supply chain environmental, social, and governance (ESG) compliance. Responsible investment practices and balanced, effective policy measures are essential for fostering collaborative efforts by both countries to develop a sustainable EV value chain and drive a sustainable and equitable global economic transition.
Going Global Sustainably and Economic Transition — Focusing on the Electric Vehicle Value Chain Workshop by PRI Beijing
The “Going Global Sustainably and Economic Transition — Focusing on the Electric Vehicle Value Chain” workshop was held on August 6, 2025, hosted by PRI Beijing Office and supported by ANGIN Advisory. The seminar focused on Chinese companies going global sustainably and aims to facilitate in-depth dialogue among Chinese and Indonesian policy makers, businesses, and investors. By bringing together the insights of various stakeholders, it seeks to drive collaboration among policy, capital, and companies, creating an enabling policy environment for responsible investment and adding new momentum to the global economic transition.
Many key stakeholders and policymakers from both China and Indonesia attended the event, with both countries presenting their remarks and perspectives in the economic transition and the electric vehicle (EV) value chain.
Partners and invitees who attended the event includes representatives from:
- United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI)
- Department of International Cooperation, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC)
- Foreign Economic Cooperation Office, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China (MEE)
- Foreign Economic Cooperation Office (FECO), Ministry of Environmental Protection of China
- China Geological Survey
- Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas), Republic of Indonesia
- China Association for Public Companies (CAPCO)
- Institute of Finance and Sustainability (IFS)
- World Economic Forum
- Stewart Investors
- E-Funds
- BYD
- Huayou Cobalt
Representing Indonesia was Sari Widita, First Secretary of Economic Affairs at the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Beijing; Setyo Budiantoro, Manager of Economic Development Pillar at the National SDGs Secretariat of Bappenas; Ratna Hartien, Senior Advisory Lead at ANGIN Advisory; and Anisa Azizah, Senior Advisory Associate at ANGIN Advisory. Teguh Sambodo, Deputy for Food, Natural Resources, and Environmental Affairs at Indonesia’s Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas), and Chair of the SDGs Indonesia Implementation Team also made an appearance at the event to deliver his key speech.
From our visit to Beijing and meeting local stakeholders, we can conclude that while investors are aware of the progressing effort and regulations are updated regularly (in order to meet the global standard yet still relevant to local context), they need a clear commitment from the government of Indonesia to make sure the energy transition effort is responsible.
For companies involved, continuing collaborations with multiple key players in the industry, such as local NGOs for communications, are much needed. In addition, the challenge faced by downstream companies (EV manufacturers) is traceability of the upstream industry, which we must support to ensure that the whole value chain process is up to code through collaborative discussions such as this, resulting in real action plans to follow through in the future.
From the perspective of the local Chinese government agencies, an alignment with local government bodies is needed due to each of their different approaches. They observe a significant progress on the company’s disclosure; however, performance across sectors still vary, so there is a need for efforts to increase their capacity, such as capacity building or peer learning. To tackle the sustainability aspect of energy transition development, there is a need for biodiversity conservation efforts to be examined along with the climate change issue.
Indonesia, on the other hand, is committed to incorporating SDGs in the development planning while still updating the current standards to fit global standards, parallel with strengthening the due diligence process and compliance.
Through the workshop, we can see that China and Indonesia are on the same journey of energy transition, and one country’s success will definitely affect the other. We look forward to facilitating the shift and collaboration between the two countries for a smooth, sustainable energy transition.
About ANGIN Advisory and INTRA
ANGIN Advisory is committed to pushing more sustainable and responsible investment options forward. Through INTRA (Impact Investment and Entrepreneurship Knowledge Generator), ANGIN Advisory conceive, educate, and share good practices through up-to-date reports on trends in the everchanging world for a fair, inclusive, and environmentally-friendly Indonesia based on justice and social entrepreneurship. We promote ESG principles in energy transition and value chain with appropriate security measures and reporting to enable communities and subjects to benefit from energy transition.
The “Going Global Sustainably and Economic Transition — Focusing on the Electric Vehicle Value Chain” workshop is a follow-up of the workshop held by INTRA of ANGIN Advisory in Jakarta, Indonesia, titled “Contributions of Responsible Investment to the SDGs in Emerging Markets”. The Jakarta workshop brought forth the notion of how responsible investment plays a significant role in the implementation of SDGs, especially in emerging markets such as the electronic vehicle (EV) value chain, focusing on the grassroot perspective by bringing together NGOs and CSOs, along with key investors, companies, and government representatives to share their points of view on the matter.
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