Indonesia Needs To Focus On Developing Used Cooking Oil Business

Illustration - a processing of used used oil into biodiesel (Nyoman Budhiana / Antara)

JAKARTA - Indonesia, through various related parties, is deemed necessary to focus on developing domestic businesses in order to process used cooking oil or used cooking oil because it has high economic value and is in line with the application of the concept of renewable energy. "The use of biodiesel from used cooking oil will reduce the amount of carbon emissions. In addition, if we use waste, we do not need to replace forests with oil palm plantations, which has the potential to increase carbon emissions, "said Ricky Amukti, manager of the independent research institute Traction Energy Asia, in a release in Jakarta, Saturday. used cooking oil has a very big opportunity to develop, among others, because a lot of cooking oil used in the sidewalks has often gone through repeated heating. In addition, he argues that not many people have used this used cooking oil waste for the biodiesel industry. burn biodiesel from jela oil ntah is considered to be able to solve problems from various aspects, including health and environmental problems. "Used cooking oil that is dumped carelessly will have a direct effect on the environment. If it accumulates in the gutter, it will smell and the sewer water becomes dirty. If it is absorbed in the soil, the quality of the soil will decline, "he explained. Trade Energy Asia itself has initiated the Association of Used Cooking Oil, which aims to ensure that policy advocacy related to used cooking oil can be regulated by regulations.

However, Ricky stated that although it is very promising, the business of processing used cooking oil into biodiesel still has many challenges, including in processing technology and the process of collecting used cooking oil. Ricky reminded a number of biodiesel entrepreneurs in various cities to employ local people to process and sell used processed products, so that He sees that this business is able to absorb a lot of workforce in various regions. One of the businessmen who uses used cooking oil for biodiesel production is Andi Hilmi, who already has an industrial biodiesel business. Andi thought of making biodiesel from used cooking oil because he saw that there was a scarcity BBM is almost evenly distributed in Indonesia. Even in his area in South Sulawesi, he finds that many fishermen cannot go to sea, because they do not receive fuel. "I am trying to find a substitute for renewable energy so that it can be used by fishermen. My principle is that the work we make must be in accordance with the needs at that time. At that time, biodiesel could answer the problem of fuel scarcity that threatens energy sovereignty in the future, "said Andi. Meanwhile, the Young Expert Policy Analyst, Sub-Coordinator of Bioenergy Engineering, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Hudha Wijayanto stated, to be able to contribute to the B30 program (30 percent of biodiesel is mixed in BBM), there are two principles that need to be met by biodiesel. "First, in terms of quality, it must reach the biodiesel specification standard. Second, economically it must also be implemented. If these two principles can be met by biodiesel from used cooking, then the waste cooking potential of 3 million kiloliters per year will be able to meet 32 percent of the national biodiesel needs, "said Hudha Wijayanto. Another challenge, according to Hudha, is from a technical point of view there are inherent characteristics of used cooking oil which It will be difficult to meet the high quality demands of biodiesel for B30. Meanwhile, from a business perspective, he continued, the presence of used cooking oil as a distributed and not centralized raw material will make it difficult to build biodiesel processing with a large capacity to get the best economies of scale. "So maybe a good solution. is how to encourage the use of biofuels from used cooking oil through a direct trade scheme to end users (closed schemes) outside of the B30 scheme which applies nationally, "he explained.