Indonesia Biogas Programme

Audit Analysis

The Indonesia Domestic Biogas Programme is a large-scale (20,253 digesters) Gold Standard avoidance project with confirmed additionality, no reversal events, and quantified leakage. However, the project-specific modeled baseline, absence of a buffer pool, extensive corrective actions across multiple verification cycles, and 18 inter-document contradictions (including a critical FPIC discrepancy) indicate moderate data reliability concerns that temper confidence in the credit claims.

Project Description

Red Flags

• ⚠FPIC contradiction: the 2026 validation report states FPIC was not conducted, while the 2025 verification report confirms it was — the more recent document (2026) raises a safeguard gap that is unresolved in the extracted record
• ⚠94 biodigesters using poultry waste (outside the registered feedstock scope) were incorrectly included in the database and ER calculations before being removed and recalculated, indicating a boundary-control weakness
• ⚠A Forward Action Request was raised because leakage parameter LEp,y was not monitored as per the registered VPA-DD and a 0% value was incorrectly applied in an earlier period
• ⚠18 contradictions across documents, including a 72% discrepancy in the ex-ante lifetime ERR (359,749 vs 208,920 tCO2e) between the validation report and an appendix

Credit Vintages