Still Carrying Out Imports, Secretary General Of DEN Reveals Indonesia's Energy Resilience

JAKARTA - In the midst of an escalation of the Middle East conflict between Hamas and Israel, the national Energy Council ensures that national energy security is in a safe condition.

Secretary General of the National Energy Council (DEN), Djoko Siswanto said, based on calculations from the DEN, Indonesia's resilience index was at 6.61 and was in the safe category.

"The professors, doctors, and experts gathered to calculate our energy resilience index using the analytic method of hierarchy of processes. Thank God, we calculated that at 6.61, our energy resilience index is a resistant category," said Djoko in Jakarta, Tuesday, October 31.

Even though it is in a safe condition, Djoko said, Indonesia has not yet entered the category of very safe or at 8-10 due to fuel import activities that are still being carried out.

He said that Indonesia still imports crude oil as raw material for refineries.

Not only that, he said, Indonesia's LPG imports also almost reached 80 percent.

"Elpiji imports are very large, almost 80 percent, now 78 percent. Then import gasoline," Djoko continued.

Meanwhile, for diesel fuel, he said, Indonesia was helped by biodiesel ady such as B30 and B35 so that it no longer imports.

For that, he said, Indonesia should be grateful because it is blessed with many fossil and non-fossil energy sources. He gave an example of Indonesia, which is the second largest coal producing country in the world and also a source of geothermal energy.

"We have the wind, we have the sun and so on. We also have biosolars. Alhamdulillah," concluded Djoko.