Jakarta, July 16 -- Indonesia has streamlined regulations for waste-to-energy (WTE) projects, cutting hundreds of requirements to just three rules to accelerate urban waste management and renewable energy development, Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs Zulkifli Hasan said on Thursday.

The regulatory overhaul aims to remove longstanding bureaucratic hurdles that have delayed WTE investments while helping the government address mounting urban waste volumes and expand renewable energy generation.

"My task is only one: improve the regulations. We reduced hundreds of rules to just three," Hasan said during the Waste to Energy Talks: Reducing Waste, Powering the Future forum in Jakarta.

He said developers previously had to secure approva...