Greetings from "
Indonesia’s industrial policy: downstreaming and EV supply chain" seminar at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Hilman Palaon from the Lowy Institute pointed out that while the Indonesian government has a policy to encourage local processing of nickle for electric vehicle batteries, there is a lack of expertise at local universities to train workers. China is looking to meet this demand for education, but I suggest Australian universities and vocational educators could have a role. Also both nickle and aluminum refining requires large amounts of electricity. This could be a use, I suggest, for renewable energy exported by cable from northern Australia.
