JAKARTA - West Java Governor (Jabar) Dedi Mulyani alias KDM complained that there were still households in West Java who had not been electrified despite having the largest renewable energy plant (EBT) in Indonesia.
For information, there are several famous power plants located in West Java, including the Cirata PLTS, Saguling PLTA and Kamojang PLTP.
"Hopefully this irony will not happen, so West Java targets next year all West Javanese people will have electricity. From 500,000 who do not have electricity, now there are only 70,000 left, next year," he told reporters, Wednesday, July 29.
To accelerate construction and pursue the electrification ratio, Dedi ensured that he would receive grants from the West Java Provincial Government for the electricity network needed for new investment projects.
Moreover, he continued, one of the biggest obstacles in investment is the certainty of electricity.
"One of the problems of investment in West Java because I take care of this every day is electricity. Land affairs are complete, IMB is complete but the problem is that companies that invest must spend money to build a substation, pull the cable," he said.
He also gave an example of a project in the Purwakarta industrial area which had a total investment in land acquisition of Rp. 15 billion, but the connection of electricity cables from the PLN distribution network reached Rp. 17 billion.
For this reason, Dedi ensured that he would put this issue to President Prabowo Subianto regarding the proposal for grant assistance from the West Java Provincial Government specifically for electricity network needs.
"Later I will also convey it to the President and the Minister of Home Affairs, rather than the West Java Provincial Government's funds, for example, being transferred to inappropriate grants, sometimes hundreds of billions. I prefer the West Java Provincial Government to invest in PLN to build an electricity network to provide investment services to investors," said Dedi.
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