Indonesia Dubukau Is Still Controlled By Fossil Fuel For The Next 30 Years

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JAKARTA - Energy Economy Observer at Padjajaran University, Yayan Satyakti, said that Indonesia will still depend on fossil-based energy for the next 30 years.

"Maybe for the next 30 years, Indonesia will still be controlled by fossil fuels. That's up to 50 percent," he said in the Energy Corner quoted Monday, May 27.

Yayan said, actually Indonesia does have other abundant renewable energy sources such as geothermal or geothermal but does not develop due to economic problems.

On the other hand, he said, currently PT PLN (Persero) is still experiencing oversupply of electricity as a result of government policies that are considered not driving demand. "Our policy is not driving demand, so we experience oversupply caused by investment planning from our energy is not true, so we need to consider economic policies and engineering must be synchronized," explained Yayan.

According to Yayan, currently the most rational thing to do is that the government must be able to determine new and renewable energy (EBT) which has good demand and is the most economical so that a gradual energy transition can be carried out.

"Say the gradual 5 percent per year changes even though now the biofuels are already at 20 -23 percent, while closing the coal can't," Yayan concluded.