Keep Energy Resilience, Indonesia Will Stop EBT Electricity Exports

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JAKARTA - The government will stop the export of electricity from New Renewable Energy (EBT) in order to maintain energy security in Indonesia.

"Indonesia in 2025, at least 25 percent of the total energy usage must use new and renewable energy. If our country alone is not enough, why export? We are optimizing the use of new and renewable energy in the country," said Investment Minister/Head of the Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM) Bahlil Lahadalia to the media, Thursday, February 2.

He said, this year the Indonesian government is still continuing its efforts to accelerate downstreaming by stopping the export of primary commodities, namely bauxite and will continue with the cessation of tin exports.

This is a real effort by the government to encourage industrial downstreaming.

Indonesia continues to move towards an environmentally friendly industry. In the future, investment is driven by a massive downstream sector," he explained.

According to President Jokowi's direction, he continued, the government will continue to advance in downstreaming and developing environmentally friendly green energy.

"We must continue to advance. If we are brought to the WTO (World Trade Organization) we can appeal. Never want to dictate any country. We will start stopping bauxite exports and then into the tin and gas sectors. We will build an ecosystem for methanol, soda gas, blue ammonia in West Papua. This is really now our focus," he concluded.