REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Indonesian Delegation Chairman for COP29 Hashim Djojohadikusumo said the target of increasing the utilization of new renewable energy (EBT) by 75 percent was the outline of President Prabowo Subianto's energy policy targets. Hashim said the effort required joint efforts from a number of ministries, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), to the private sector.

“The theme (Prabowo's target) is 75 percent of it from new and renewable energy,” Hashim said at the Indonesian Pavilion during COP 29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Monday (11/11/2024).

Hashim said the transition to EBT was a very feasible one, both in terms of natural resources and costs. Hashim disputes the notion of many who say EBT development costs much more than fossil energy.

“Now there's new technology from a variety of sources, there's a battery energy storage system, it's now cheap, we're already offered four cents per kilowatt, four years ago Tesla offered 14 cents, now there's offering four cents and going to three cents. I think this is the transformation of renewable energy into very affordable and inexpensive,” Hashim said.

Hashim said PLN has also had a technical strategy by installing subsea cables later between Kalimantan and Sumatra as well as Kalimantan and Sulawesi. It aims to bring clean energy sources closer to customers in order to create cost efficiency.

Hashim said many new energy sources are located in Western Indonesia such as Aceh and West Sumatra for hydro sources, Borneo with hydro and hydro power sources. Later, the geothermal geothermal power potential spread across Java Island and Sumatra Island.

“The government will continue its partnership program with private as well as foreign. These are all international programs, we must implement collaboration between Indonesia and other countries,” Hashim said.

Hashim said Prabowo also plans to build several large nuclear power centers with a capacity of about one gigawatt to two gigawatts in western Indonesia. Hashim said the government is currently conducting a strategic review in determining the site of the nuclear power center's construction.

“It is necessary to look for safe places that are earthquake-resistant, not later in areas of places where there are prone to earthquakes, it can be wretched. Secondly, there are small nuclear power small modular reactors (SMR) that can be floating, floating, that serve eastern Indonesia,” Hashim said.

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