The Target Of The Indonesian Energy Transition Is Considered Ambitious, Pertamina's Managing Director Opens His Voice

Pertamina President Director Nicke Widyawati (right) in a discussion at the ASEAN Summit agenda series (Photo: Capture Pertamina's Youtube screenshot)

JAKARTA – Indonesia is considered to have very ambitious targets in the energy transition agenda. It is stated that the use of renewable energy sources is expected to reach a level of 23 percent in 2025. Meanwhile, the portion of environmentally friendly energy is currently only around 10 percent.

That was the question asked to the President Director (Dirut) of PT Pertamina Nicke Widyawati in a discussion entitled Green Infrastructure and Resilient Supply Chain which was part of the agenda for this week's ASEAN Summit in Jakarta.

Responding to this, Nicke explained that Indonesia has a target of achieving a net zero emission target. She said, Indonesia as a developing country also needs energy as a catalyst to drive the economy.

“What we are doing now is how to secure energy supply. Pertamina, which has the mandate to provide national energy, must ensure this energy security. But on the one hand we also have to support government programs. Therefore, we have three agendas to achieve this target," she said on Wednesday, September 6.

First, continued Nicke, ensuring business processes going forward in a different way (environmentally friendly). In this case Pertamina will take the initiative for decarbonization steps.

"We will take steps to refining/processing oil so that (the resulting product) is more environmentally friendly," she said.

Second, is the development of geothermal energy sources (geothermal). And the third is the optimization of Carbon Capture Storage (CCS)/Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technology.

For information, the last method that Nicke mentioned was the implementation of technology in an effort to reduce carbon emissions through carbon capture, utilization and storage. This technology is believed to be able to produce precipitated calcium carbonate (PCC) products.

"Don't forget that Indonesia is the largest producer of nickel (raw material for electric vehicle batteries) in the world. We also have the second largest forest in the world. "So those are three agendas that can drive the energy transition in Indonesia in parallel," she stressed.