InfoSAWIT, BUSAN - ASEAN and Korea should be the first to develop the renewable energy in the region. In Indonesia the government has planned to mix biodiesel from crude palm oil to biodiesel about 20 percent or famously known as B20.
President Jokowi said that in ASEAN-Republic of Korea (RoK) CEO Summit in Busan Exhibition and Convention Center (BEXCO), Monday, 25 November 2019. He thought that it needs breakthrough to develop the renewable energy and should be done.
“Next year we would increase the biodiesel mixture to be B30. Indonesia is now developing the power plant in water - base,” President Jokowi said as in the official statement to InfoSAWIT recently.
Indonesia, he continued, also has many big rivers that could produce power plants in significant numbers.
“At least, there are two locations, they are, in North Kalimantan, within the potential 11 giga watt (GW) and Papua within the potential 20 GW. By using the water power plants, we would develop the industries in low emission,” he said.
He continued that this is part of the government’s commitment to Paris Agreement.
In the end of his speech, President Jokowi reminded the future challenges are getting more difficult.
“The only option to take to be the winner is the courage to take the big breakthrough in the age of disruption era. I invite the businessmen in ASEAN and Korea to take the option,” he said. (T2)
