JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Community Empowerment Abdul Muhaimin Iskandar asked the development of the electric vehicle (EV) industry to also pay attention to carbon pollution produced by steam power plants (PLTU).
"Electric cars are also related to electricity produced. It can be studied later, to what extent our electricity is environmentally friendly," said Gus Imin, Muhaimin Iskandar's nickname, in a public discussion entitled National Electric Car and EV Battery Industry in Jakarta, quoted by Antara, Thursday, February 6.
Gus Imin said that the contribution of vehicle smoke to carbon pollution in Jakarta is smaller when compared to pollution caused by PLTU.
The pollution caused by the PLTU then caused clean air in Jakarta to depend on the direction of the wind.
"Once the world's fame at that time, the issue was that the wind did not have an ID card," said Gus Imin when referring to the debate that had occurred ahead of the 2024 Presidential Election (Pilpres).
Gus Imin explained that the crowd of issues was because the source of Jakarta pollution came from PLTU-PLTU around Jakarta.
Therefore, Gus Imin asked for concrete formulation in the development of the electric vehicle industry in order to deal with pollution and carbon production, especially in big cities.
"Villages must also be maintained for the system to become a source of our environmental resilience," said Gus Imin.
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Although asking for the development of a prudence-packed electric vehicle industry, Muhaimin did not deny the importance of developing the electric vehicle industry in Indonesia.
Electric vehicles, he continued, are related to the global agenda and the national agenda regarding the environment.
"This concerns threats, not only the threat of a crisis, but a real environmental disaster in front of us. One of them is that geothermal is a very concrete issue in front of our eyes," said Gus Imin.
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