Dr. I Gusti Suarnaya Sidemen is a Senior Consultant for Energy for the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). He has more than 25 years of experience at Indonesia’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, having held various responsibilities including offshore HSE inspector, programme and planning, downstream business regulation and data management at the Downstream Regulatory Authority (BPHMIGAS), as well as serving as an expert advisor to SKK Migas (Upstream Regulatory Body).
He was also tasked with managing Global Gas Flare Reduction reporting and establishing Indonesia’s Centre of Excellence for CCS/CCUS with support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
In research activities, he was seconded as a senior researcher at APERC from 2003 to 2007. Since 2024, he has been supporting Asia CCUS Network activities and the Energy Unit of ERIA.