ABSTRAKAs developing country, many people in Indonesia still face problem regarding access to electricity. Most households located in the remote area are still dark at night and more capital outflow happened in previous years because of poor infrastructure. Moreover, Indonesia is bound to reduce greenhouse emmision up to 2 degrees of Celcius as stated in Paris Agreement. Indonesia should take firm action to use more clean energy. This country has many potential renewable energies to boost the electricity but yet to be developed. With 5.8 billion km 2 of waters and 97,000 km of coastal lines, one of the best sources is ocean energy which theoretically can result in 4.4 billion Mega watt of electricity. Up until now, ocean energy is already developed but only for research purposes. Government can provide interesting offers to attract private sector to invest in ocean energy. For example, giving special tariff to produce new sustainable investment or green economy? as previously targeted by President Joko Widodo. Also, reformation is needed for the ocean energy open bidding policy to gain more advanced technology for supporting the vision: being global maritime axis.
