Expansion of EV charging infrastructure in Indonesia: Financing pathways to roll out scalable and inclusive charging and battery-swapping stations

• May 20, 2026
• 2 min

Indonesia’s transition to electric mobility is central to its net-zero targets by 2060, as the country’s transport sector accounts for nearly 23% of national emissions. The government has set ambitious targets of 2 million electric four-wheelers and 12 million two-wheelers by 2030. Yet, adoption remains limited.  

Only 359,000 EVs as of 2025 represent about 2.6% of the target. A key bottleneck is the severe gap in charging infrastructure. Fewer than 5,000 public charging stations are available against a target of 63,000, with most concentrated in urban regions, such as Java and Bali. High upfront costs, limited access to financing, and centralized institutional structures further constrain private participation and last-mile deployment.  

At the same time, MSMEs, particularly women-led enterprises, remain an untapped channel to enable decentralized, community-based infrastructure expansion. They account for more than 60% of micro and small businesses. 

MSC supports this push toward electric mobility and has developed a policy-oriented white paper on Indonesia’s EV ecosystem. The paper synthesizes the key bottlenecks that constrain EV charging scale-up, including operational challenges, institutional constraints, and financing limitations. Multiple stakeholders across the government, state-owned enterprises, EV developers, think tanks, and MSMEs have validated the white paper. 

The paper identifies the most feasible and scalable models for infrastructure expansion, presents priority recommendations for relevant stakeholders, and introduces an implementation plan. This plan would be operationalized within Indonesia’s existing policy and institutional environment to enable the participation of women-led MSMEs. 

MSC’s work will catalyze the operationalization of inclusive EV charging models, new EV supply chains, such as BaaS among others.   

Over time, this engagement will help enable more commercially viable and geographically distributed infrastructure that catalyzes EV penetration in rural Indonesia. It will simultaneously accelerate EV adoption beyond urban centers. The engagement will also strengthen women’s economic participation in the green economy and contribute to Indonesia’s broader clean mobility and climate transition goals. 

The Gates Foundation supports this engagement.