The Indonesian National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas) has requested support in incorporating policy research into Indonesia’s low-carbon development strategies as the next step from the forthcoming National Medium Term Development Plan 2020-2024 (RPJMN) and SDG roadmap. The specific request is for research inputs on renewable energies (RE; including geothermal, microhydro and bioenergy) in terms of their potential contribution to development and to climate mitigation, which has been highlighted as a crucial knowledge gap. To address these issues a workshop on low-carbon development was held in Bali on 27th-29th November 2019.