Accelerate Energy Transition, AHY Prepares Biofuel Production Land

Minister of ATR BPN AHY (Photo: Doc. VOI)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency (ATR/BPN) stated that it is preparing land for the production of organic fuel (biofuel) to help accelerate the energy transition in Indonesia.

ATR/BPN Minister Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono (AHY) said he had coordinated with the Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Kemenko Marves), as well as other institutions so that they could allocate plantation land for bioethenol production.

"We once again also have to prepare land that is indeed for the production of biofuels. This biofuel is the future of all of us," AHY said quoting Antara.

He said the collaboration needed to be carried out so that Indonesia's ideals as stated in the Enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution (E-NDC) became 32 percent or equivalent to 912 million tons of CO2 by 2030.

"For example, for bioethenol, we need sugarcane plantations, for example, corn and so on, including other alternative variations," said AHY.

He further said that the institution he leads is currently revising Government Regulation (PP) 21/2021 concerning Management, Land Rights, Flats Units, and Land Registration with other ministries that regulates Business Use Rights (HGU) for carbon trading.

Through the revision of the regulation, it will accommodate the granting of Cultivation Rights/Utilization Rights for land with the designation of environmental services such as mangrove areas, including carbon capture materials, carbon storage for the Granting of Underground Space Rights (RBT) in the Draft Presidential Regulation of Ground and Underground Space. "This is what we will be fierce as a carbon trading community," said AHY., as well as a real step to reduce the impact of climate change.