Indonesia’s president pushes US on what happened to the $31b


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The Indonesian president, who is widely known as Jokowi, spoke ahead of a bilateral meeting with US president Joe Biden at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which starts this weekend, when he will push for an exemption to allow Indonesia’s nickel industry to benefit from subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act. The White House has confirmed the Indonesian and US leaders will meet at the White House on Monday. Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of nickel and has protested against its exclusion from Washington’s landmark sweeping green energy funding package. US lawmakers have said that such a deal would...