IKI-JET · Impact stories

The human record of the transition

First-person stories from the coal regions where a just transition is being planned with the people who live there.

A hand-painted mural along the café wall: coffee cherries and a picker lettered HULU at one end, a roaster, a barista and a woman drinking lettered HILIR at the other, the two joined by a flowing line

Muara Enim, South Sumatra, ID

The Long Harvest: Growing a Sustainable Future Beyond Coal in Muara Enim

Robby Anugrah Putra is building a specialty coffee industry in Muara Enim, so that a district shaped by coal has something lasting to grow instead.

Six members of the YMH South Sumatra team standing together in a café, thumbs up

South Sumatra, ID

The Door They Opened: The Women Behind YMH’s Just Transition in South Sumatra

A professor, a lawyer and a former teacher ran IKI-JET’s work in South Sumatra. They had six months. Prof. Erna reckons it takes about that long simply to become known in a village.

Five women in dark field jackets gathered around a bucket at a training table, mixing eco-enzyme, a From Trash to Cash slide projected behind them

Muara Enim, South Sumatra, ID

Forging FORBESS’ Future Ahead

A midwife married to a mine worker is asking what her family will do when the work ends, and building the answer through a women's forum and a youth organisation with a route into government.

Ari Firmansyah in a green batik jacket in conversation at a round table during the national policy dialogue, delegates and laptops along the table

Muara Enim, South Sumatra, ID

Refusing the Inheritance of Coal

Ari is a coffee entrepreneur living less than a kilometre from an operating coal mine. Most people his age work in the mines. He is not waiting for the coal to run out before building something else.

Ibu Rozita seated at her handloom beside her daughter, who holds up a finished crimson and gold songket

Lahat, South Sumatra, ID

What the Hands of Lahat Carry

A potter working clay found only near her village, and a weaver who puts Lahat's landmark mountain into silk, in a coal regency where the power still fails.

Ibu Nurmalina standing in a courtyard before a white wall lettered “SEMENDO/SEMENDE”, wearing a purple patterned shawl

South Sumatra, ID

What Women Inherit

A Tunggu Tubang who has carried her family's land through 17 generations, and the chair building a women's forum meant to outlast the project that convened it.

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