Indonesia has begun a trial phase for its national Carbon Unit Registry System, known as SRUK, inviting carbon project developers to submit data ahead of a planned July launch, national news agency Antara has reported.
Deputy Minister of Environment Diaz Hendropriyono, speaking at the Indonesia Carbon Market Outlook 2026 event in Jakarta on April 16, said that project developers with completed project design documents can now participate in the trial by entering data into the registry ahead of its operational debut.
“SRUK is targeted to begin operations in July, as directed by the Coordinating Ministry for Food Affairs. Hence, project developers that have readied project design documents can now conduct a trial by submitting data into the registry,” he was quoted as saying by Antara.
Hendropriyono framed the registry as essential to opening Indonesia’s carbon trading market and emphasized the scale of the global climate finance shortfall that carbon markets are expected to help address.
He cited studies showing that global climate investment requirements reach $8.6 trillion annually through 2030, rising to $10 trillion thereafter, while actual mobilized funding has reached only $1.4 to $1.9 trillion.
The domestic picture is similarly stark. Indonesia requires roughly 470 trillion rupiah—equivalent to more than $27 billion—for climate programs between 2020 and 2030, but only 76 trillion rupiah is currently available, according to Hendropriyono.
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UK Ambassador to Indonesia Dominic Jermey, also present at the event, praised Indonesia’s efforts to build a credible carbon trading ecosystem, noting that the two countries agreed to partner on carbon market development following a meeting between President Prabowo Subianto and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London in January.
The registry trial comes as Indonesia has moved on multiple fronts to build out its carbon market infrastructure, including recent measures tightening forest carbon trading rules and advancing pricing frameworks for agriculture and blue carbon.
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