Developing 35,000 megawatts (MW) of electricity by 2019, as the Indonesian government has planned, will not be as simple as flicking a switch. Indonesia is embarking on an ambitious, noble and complex engineering and construction effort that will lay the building blocks for the future of its economy and people.

However, one of the critical challenges facing Indonesia is that it cannot achieve this vision alone. The scale of the challenge needs to be met with the right combination of domestic, regional and global solutions for engineering, equipment, construction and financing.