Blackouts, Burnout, and Business as Usual in Kalimantan The rolling blackouts that have plagued Kalimantan for weeks are a stark reminder of Indonesia's power grid woes.
The ripple effects of these frequent outages will be felt far beyond the province's borders, forcing a reckoning with the country's energy infrastructure.
PLN attributes the blackouts to high temperatures reducing output at one of its power plants, not coal shortages as some initially feared.