Jakarta, 29 April 2026 – RECLICKS by PYC, with support from the FINCAPES Project (Flood Impacts, Carbon Pricing, and Ecosystem Sustainability), University of Waterloo, Canada, organized the CLICKS Workshop with the theme “Strengthening Research Implementation for Climate Finance and Energy Transition” on 29 April 2026 at the Purnomo Yusgiantoro Center, Jakarta. The workshop is part of the official launch of the second round of the RECLICKS Collaborative Studies programme, bringing together the ten newly selected research teams alongside senior practitioners, policy experts, and the program jury.
The workshop was dedicated to strengthening the capacity of the ten funded research teams to translate their work into policy-relevant impact. Three senior practitioners delivered substantive sessions covering research communication, policy uptake, and gender integration, establishing the foundational standards the cohort is expected to uphold throughout the research cycle.
The workshop delivered session on Research to Policy Influence. Led by Ari W. Adipratomo, Low Carbon Development Adviser at UK-FCDO and Advocacy Manager at The Climate Reality Project Indonesia, the session reoriented participants from data-first to problem-first thinking. Researchers must therefore frame their work around fiscal consequence and decision stakes, not academic contribution, if they expect it to be used. Participants practised compressing their research into a single policy sentence, with the closing principle that if research cannot become one sentence, it cannot become policy.
Session entitled ‘Policy Doesn’t Read Your Paper’ was delivered by Dr. Ruddy Gobel, Co-Founder and Chair of the Arunala Foundation and Institute, and Senior Policy Advisor for Just Transition at the Center for Policy Dialogue (CPD). Dr. Gobel diagnosed five structural gaps that prevent rigorous evidence from reaching decision-makers, and demonstrated through two Indonesian policy case studies how these gaps were overcome in practice. The 2013–2015 reform of the Bantuan Siswa Miskin programme and the 2017 electricity subsidy reform both showed that evidence succeeds when it answers operational questions, is communicated in layered formats for different audiences, and is applied iteratively across the full policy cycle, not delivered once at the start.
The last session focusing on Gender Integration in the Energy Transition was delivered by Dr. Amurwani Dwi Lestariningsih, M.Hum, Deputy Minister for Gender Equality at the Ministry of Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection (Kementerian PP&PA RI). Drawing on IRENA 2025 data and Indonesia’s National Action Plan on Gender and Climate Change (RAN GPI), the session established that a just energy transition cannot be achieved without addressing who bears its costs. Three structural risks were identified: the collapse of female-dominated informal economies surrounding coal mining communities during the phasedown; the exclusion of women from green jobs due to gaps in STEM access and technical reskilling; and the continued underrepresentation of women in managerial and leadership roles in the renewable energy sector (19%), despite relatively higher overall female employment in the sector (32%) compared to oil and gas (22%). The session situated these challenges within Indonesia’s binding commitments under the Paris Agreement, RPJMN 2025–2029, and the Enhanced NDC.
The three sessions established a shared standard for the 2026 cohort: that research impact is not an outcome of publication, but of deliberate design, in how problems are framed, how findings are communicated, and whose reality the evidence reflects.
About Purnomo Yusgiantoro Center (PYC)
The Purnomo Yusgiantoro Center is an independent policy research institution dedicated to advancing evidence-based policymaking in energy, environment, climate change, and sustainable development. Through research, capacity building, and policy dialogue, PYC supports Indonesia’s energy transition and climate agenda. In partnership with FINCAPES, PYC hosts RECLICKS (Center of Excellence for Climate Finance Policy, Research, and Training), which aims to strengthen Indonesia’s climate finance ecosystem by connecting research, policy, and practice.
About FINCAPES
The Flood Impacts, Carbon Pricing, and Ecosystem Sustainability (FINCAPES) Project is a 5.5-year, Canada-funded initiative supporting Indonesia’s efforts to adapt to and mitigate climate change while conserving biodiversity in a socially and economically inclusive manner. Jointly implemented by the University of Waterloo (Faculty of Mathematics and Faculty of Environment) and funded by Global Affairs Canada under Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, FINCAPES focuses on three key areas: climate-exacerbated flood risk and financial impacts, Nature-based Solutions for peatland and mangrove restoration, and climate finance policy—including carbon pricing and market mechanisms—to support Indonesia’s low-carbon transition.
