PLN Needs IDR 23.95 Trillion To Reach 100 Percent Electrification Ratio

JAKARTA - President Director of PT PLN (Persero) Darmawan Prasodjo said his party had compiled a village electricity roadmap to achieve the 100 percent electrification ratio in 2024. To electrify 100 percent, Darmawan revealed that his party needed a budget of IDR 23.95 trillion.

"We admit that to electrify the village 100 percent needs Rp23 trillion in funds. Until it is finished," Darmawan said in a Hearing Meeting with Commission VII DPR RI, Thursday, May 30.

Even though they have compiled a roadmap, said Darmawan, with the absence of state capital participation (PMN) for PLN in 2023 and 2024, the village electricity target with an electrification ratio of 100 percent will only be completed in 2027.

Darmawan detailed that the 2023 PLN village electricity program needed at least IDR 4.75 trillion to illuminate 1,997 villages with 211,074 customers.

Then for 2024 PLN needs IDR 1.47 trillion to illuminate 149 villages with 20,428 customers.

"Both of them are funds from PLN and there needs to be a proposal for assignment," continued Darmawan.

Meanwhile, for 2025 PLN Village Electricity, PLN Needs Rp3.00 trillion to illuminate 1,092 villages and 85,017 customers. Then the 2026 village electricity PMN amounted to Rp7.00 trillion for 1,379 villages and 121,433 customers. Finally, the 2027 village electricity PMN amounted to Rp5.86 trillion for 1,963 villages.

"So of course there is no PMN lisse 2023. We need a government assignment and for 2024 we also need an assignment from the government," added Darmawan.

Even though they did not get PMN, he said, PLN continued the village electricity program as many as 2,146 villages in 2023 and 2024 to increase the electrification ratio and also the electricity village ratio.

"For this reason, we thank you for the support of Commission VII in the future so that PLN can get PMN to support the 2025 village electricity program which has been budgeted at IDR 3 trillion," concluded Darmawan.

For information, currently the national electrification ratio as of April 2024 is 99.81 percent. Meanwhile, the achievement of the national electricity village ratio as of April reached 99.87 percent. In the last 5 years, the national electricity village ratio increased by 0.37 percent from 2019 by 99.48 percent to 99.85 percent in December 2023.