THE WhatsApp message received on Friday three weeks ago aroused the resistance of Riza Husni. Sent by a staff member in the energy and mineral resources ministry, the message notified the planned revision of the Energy Minister’s Regulation No. 50/2017 on the Utilization of Renewable Energy Sources for Power Supply.

It is the regulation opposed since early August by Riza, chair of the Hydro Power Generator Developers Association. "The staffer a