Good News! Government Frees New Electricity Installation For 80,000 Households

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) through the Directorate General of Electricity is targeting 80,000 underprivileged households in the leading, underdeveloped, and outermost (3T) areas to be the target of the New Installed Electricity Assistance (BPBL) program through the State Budget (APBN) Fiscal Year 2022.

Secretary of the Directorate General of Electricity Ida Nuryatin Finahari said this program aims to achieve the target of an electrification ratio of 100 percent.

"Based on the results of the ESDM Minister's Working Meeting with Commission VII DPR RI on September 27, 2021, they approved the 2022 APBN allocation for the BPBL program for 80,000 poor households that do not have electricity, spread across Indonesia," said Ida, quoted on Thursday 11 August.

Furthermore, Ida said, the electrification ratio or the ratio of electrified households to total households in Indonesia until the first semester of 2022 had reached 99.56 percent.

He said that the BPBL program, which has received the approval of Commission VII DPR RI, is expected to be one of the efforts to accelerate the achievement of the electrification ratio target.

The government, called Ida, continues to encourage various programs to meet the target of 100 percent of the Electrification Ratio by 2022. Efforts to meet electricity access for all villages and hamlets in the 3T area are carried out in various ways other than the New Installed Electricity Assistance (BPBL) program.

"The government has several strategies such as network expansion, minigrid construction, construction of New Renewable Energy (EBT), Electric Power Distribution Equipment (APDAL), Electrical Energy Charging Stations (SPEL) and New Installed Electricity Assistance (BPBL)," concluded Ida.