So begins Zamrud Khatulistiwa (The Emerald of the Equator), a famous song that celebrates Indonesia’s blessings: a nation gifted with abundant wealth, enabled in no small part by the warmth of the sun. From the lush biodiversity to productive crops such as palm oil, our prosperity has long been nurtured by year-round sunlight.

Nevertheless, we have yet to fully tap into one of our greatest blessings: the boundless energy that our sun has to offer. Solar energy, once dismissed as costly, has now become the world’s most affordable source of power. In just the past five years, global solar energy deployment has tripled. Solar now forms the backbone of renewable energy’s rise, expected to account for 80 percent of the renewable energy growth through 2030.

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