In Order To Achieve National Energy Resilience, Bioethanol Tebu Becomes A Development SOE Transformation

JAKARTA - The Ministry of SOEs through PTPN III as the Plantation Holding encourages an increase in national sugar cane production by inviting Indonesian sugarcane farmers to realize sugar self-sufficiency.

This is in line with efforts to increase national Bioethenol production from 394 thousand kiloliters in 2022 to 1.2 million kiloliters in 2030. Not only that, later this has the potential to become a mixture (blend) of fuel oil from 6 percent in 2022 to 13.8 percent in 2030 in order to achieve national energy security. Deputy Minister of BUMN I Pahala Nugraha Mansury said the transformation that had been carried out by PTPN III in the plantation BUMN cluster continued to show good development. "Financial conditions from PTPN III continue to show good progress. This can be seen from the total number of sales that have been recorded until September 2022 which reached around Rp39 trillion and shows the existence of profit of Rp4.5 trillion, which means an increase of 54 percent compared to the previous year," said Pahala in a written statement, Friday, November 4. Not only good in financial development, said Pahala, his party also saw PTPN III continuing to increase in terms of productivity and production.

"In 2022, we see that sugar production in PTPN III can reach 872,000 tons or increase compared to what was achieved in 2021 of 768,000 tons," he said. Pahala said that SugarCo's existence is expected to be able to boost national sugar productivity which has an impact on self-sufficiency and farmers' welfare. "We hope that later the sugar that will be produced into Bioethenol can be collaborated into supply that will be paired by Pertamina to be able to reduce fuel production and reduce crude oil needs," he said.

Just to note, sugarcane-based Bioetanol is downstream from sugarcane cane plants that can be used as a substitute for gasoline raw materials, which are certainly environmentally friendly. The potential downstream of sugarcane-based bioethanol opens up opportunities to reduce dependence on imports of fossil-based fuel oil.