PANGKAL PINANG, Indonesia/JAKARTA -- Aris Gunandar felt filled with purpose and excitement when he left his native Bangka Island in 2012 to go study nuclear engineering in the historic Javan city of Yogyakarta.
The fishing village of Kurau on Bangka Island: Foreign nuclear power plant developers are courting Indonesia, eyeing a potential windfall as Southeast Asia's largest economy shifts from reliance on coal toward the goal of net zero carbon emissions. (Photo by Dimas Ardian)
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