Public Interest About Electric Motorcycles Is Still Very Minimal, The Ministry Of Industry Reveals The Reason

Electric motorcycle illustration (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Industry (Kemenperin) has raised its voice regarding the realization of electric motors that are still far from the target even though they have been given subsidies by the government. It is known, the government targets the realization of electric motors to reach 200 thousand units throughout 2023.

Secretary of the Directorate General of Metal, Machinery, Transportation Equipment and Electronics, Yan Sibarang Tandiele, said this seemed to still take time, especially since the previous incentive scheme had been changed.

"The new scheme is in August 2023, one is an electric motorcycle ID card. So, it doesn't happen immediately," Yan said at the Ministry of Industry Building, Jakarta, quoted Wednesday, November 1.

Yan said that currently his party is coordinating with the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) regarding population data or NIK from buyers who want incentives.

"We have to consolidate about who the recipient is, right, the data is channeled from the Ministry of Home Affairs, it also takes time. Then, once the scheme is made easier, right, there must be system improvements as well," he said.

"So, that's what causes (the target has not been achieved)," he added.

He did not deny that the changes related to the data on incentive recipients made the process take time that was not instant.

For your information, launching SISAPIRa on Wednesday, November 1, there is still a quota for the purchase of 190,238 electric motorcycles, with details of 5,480 entering the registration process stage.

Then, as many as 2,864 have entered the verification stage, and a total of 1,418 electric motorcycles have been distributed.

The government has expanded its assistance in purchasing electric motorcycles as of August 2023.

The decision is contained in the Regulation of the Minister of Industry (Permenperin) Number 21 of 2023 concerning Amendments to the Minister of Industry Number 6 of 2023 concerning Guidelines for Providing Government Assistance to Purchase Two-wheeled Battery-Based Electric Motor Vehicles.

This program is given to the public for one purchase of two-wheeled battery electric motorized vehicles (KBL), with the same population identification number (NIK).

"This means that people who want to get this government assistance program are required to be Indonesian citizens aged 17 years and have an electronic ID card. One ID card ID card can buy an electric motorbike," said Minister of Industry (Menperin) Agus Gumiwang Kartasasmita in a written statement, Tuesday, August 29.