Business Trends

J. THOMAS, Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Co., Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia, home to 260 MM people on 14,000 islands across a vast archipelago, is estimated to become the seventh-largest economy in the world by 2030, with such growth expected to boost the nation’s energy consumption by 80% from present levels.1 This energy imperative has triggered public and private sector initiatives in Indonesia to bolster an appropriate portfolio of new energy supplies, and to invest in the needed infrastructure to bring progressive, sustainable energy supplies to even the remotest parts of Indonesia. FIG. 1. Asia’s fast-growing gas markets need a well-functioning LNG supply chain. Source: Int