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Under the 2016 first nationally determined commitments, the Indonesian government announced emission reduction targets of 29% and 41% by 2030 without and with international assistance, respectively. Germany, Japan, and the United States (US) are three key players among the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries that have actively assisted the Indonesian government through several channels, such as bilateral assistance (loans and grants), and low-carbon technologies transfer. In terms of the energy efficiency sectors, in its 2017 National Energy Plan, the Indonesian government has described its intention to achieve a 17% increase in energy efficiency across industries compared to the business as usual condition (BAU). In order to achieve these energy efficiency targets, several fiscal policies were suggested to be implemented by the Indonesian government, including reducing value-added tax (VAT) and import duty on imported energy efficiency equipment and providing tax incentives for energy efficiency producers, particularly in the industrial manufacturing, building and transport sectors. Against this background, this study assesses both the direct and indirect impacts of selected fiscal instruments in the energy efficiency sector in Indonesia in terms of low-carbon technologies (green technologies) using multi-region input-output analysis. The findings of this study reveal that fiscal policy in the energy efficiency sector would bring benefits not only for the Indonesian government as a recipient country but also for Germany, Japan, and the US as providers of low-carbon technologies (green technologies) to Indonesia.

AbstractThis article extends recent examinations of incomplete or disrupted policy mobility by examining the politically volatile case of policies to manage the regional impacts of decarbonization in Australia. The article's extended case study shows how political interests differently incorporated figments of circulating policy into longstanding debates and how more‐than‐local political networks defeated an antipolitical, technocratic exercise in 'new regional' governance. 'Follow the policy' methods could not have revealed the complexities of this case. The article concludes that mobilities approaches need to be more attentive to institutional arrangements, to the contested politics of policy formation and to the ambiguities of perceived policy likenesses. This case highlights the importance of considering how antipolitical institutional architectures facilitating policy mobility relate to established political power networks.