SMU Associate Professor of Public Policy Ishani Mukherjee shared why there was a lot of conflict and excitement at the same time when palm oil is increasingly used to make biodiesel. She added, “What was revealed at that time were these massive regulatory gaps in how the sustainability of biodiesel was being governed. So, my research came along at that point. I looked at three main policies that were out there to check the sustainability of this product in Indonesia. I realised that there was a lot of leakage happening across the supply chain that was undermining the sustainability of the product.” Assoc Prof Mukherjee’s recent paper “Fueling green connections: Networked policy instrument choices for sustainability regulation”, which is based on her previous fieldwork, examined the environmental sustainability of Indonesia’s biodiesel governance regime, and won the Review of Policy Research Best Article Prize for 2022.