Overcoming Climate Change, Hashim Says Indonesia Will Have 103 GWs Of Power Plants

JAKARTA - The chairman of the Delegation of the Republic of Indonesia and the Presidential Special Envoy for Climate and Energy, Hashim Djojohadikusumo revealed a number of strategies by the Prabowo administration to encourage action to overcome climate change described at the United Nations Climate Change Conference/Conference of the Parties (COP) 29th, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Hashim said that the first thing that was explained was the development of new renewable energy-based electricity. According to him, the additional power plants that will be implemented by the government in the next 15 years will be very large, reaching 103 GW.

"75 percent of this consists of EBT. This is an Indonesian commitment," he said at the Energy Corner, Tuesday, November 19.

He added, of the 103 GWs, 5 of them came from nuclear power plants (PLTN).

"This is new. Nuclear power is not yet available in Indonesia. Pak Prabowo wants to start with nuclear. The rest is from natural gas," he added.

The next action, said Hashim, was that Prabowo Subianto would carry out a reforestation program on land that was considered heavily damaged. Hashim said, this action is Prabowo's new program which will be carried out in stages using the sari overlap method. Later, forests that are considered heavily damaged will be planted with wood trees, fruit trees and accompanied by food crops such as cassava and corn.

"Later on, food crops in each region will be different according to the local wisdom of their respective regions," he continued.

The last action that will be carried out is through the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) program to reduce CO2 emissions. Moreover, Katdia, Indonesia will start offering carbon credit. with fantastic capacity.

"Currently, the government can offer 577 million carbon that has been studied and verified," said Hashim.

He added that the United Arab Emirates has also offered to buy more than half of Indonesia's carbon credit or 287 million tons of carbon credit. Hashim assessed this is a new asset so that Indonesia can get fantastic state revenue from carbon kredit trading.

"An additional 600 million will be added. As an illustration, 1 ton of carbon is worth 10 dollars. We can get more than 10 billion dollars next year from the sale of carbon," he said.