Coordinating Minister Luhut: The Government Sets A Target For Indonesia To Have 2 Million Electric Motors In 2025

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said the government continues to encourage the use of battery-based electric motorized vehicles (KBLBB) in Indonesia. Therefore, the government is targeting the use of 2 million units of two-wheeled electric vehicles in Indonesia by 2025.

This target is strengthened by the Presidential Decree Number 55 of 2019 concerning the Acceleration of the Battery Electric Vehicle Program for Road Transportation.

"The government is targeting 2 million two-wheeled KBLBB units in Indonesia by 2025," he said at a press conference and Virtual Grab Green Step exhibition, Thursday, April 22.

Luhut hopes that the Indonesian people can gradually switch to a more sustainable lifestyle using electric vehicles. Including, transportation operators to also switch to using electric vehicles. One of them is by Grab Indonesia.

Furthermore, Luhut said, with the ownership of 7,500 units of an electric two-wheeled transportation fleet, Grab is now the largest operator in Indonesia that uses electric vehicles.

"I hope Grab and other transportation provider applications can become part of the Indonesian government's vision," he said.

Luhut said the government welcomes the Green Step launched by Grab to encourage people to use electric vehicles. It is hoped that the role of this transportation operator can continue to be improved in the future.

"Grab has played a role, I also invite all other friends to work together so that we can get zero emissions faster than what we are targeting now," he said.

Previously, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Arifin Tasrif, explained that the government has prepared electric charging infrastructure for electric vehicles. Until April 2021, there are 122 units of electric charging stations in 83 locations.

According to the plan, in 2025 there will be 3,860 units of public electric vehicle charging stations, aka SPKLU, and 17 thousand units of public electric battery exchange stations or SPBKLUs.