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Indonesia to Concentrate on Renewable Energy Ahead of Nuclear Option
March 30, 2011

The director general of renewable energy at the Energy Ministry, Luluk Sumiarso, left, looking at a poster on geothermal energy at an energy exhibition in Jakarta on Tuesday. Luluk says Indonesia has set a target of 25 percent renewable power by 2025. (AFP Photo) The director general of renewable energy at the Energy Ministry, Luluk Sumiarso, left, looking at a poster on geothermal energy at an energy exhibition in Jakarta on Tuesday. Luluk says Indonesia has set a target of 25 percent renewable power by 2025. (AFP Photo)
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The government says it will maximize the use of new and renewable energy — especially geothermal, hydro-energy and bio fuels — before deciding to use nuclear energy.

Luluk Sumiarso, the director general of renewable energy at the Energy Ministry, said on Tuesday that the nuclear energy was the last option.

“But being the last option does not mean that nuclear is not being prepared. [The ministry] will continue to prepare it, but we are now maximizing the use of new and renewable energy, such as geothermal, hydro-energy and bio fuels, which have the potential for development,” Luluk said.

He said the plan to build nuclear power plants would go ahead.
 
 “But the use of nuclear energy needs a political decision,” Luluk said, adding that the case of nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan, would be a lesson for Indonesia.
 
He said the government was revising its quotas of new and renewable energy utilization in the energy mix from the previously targeted at 17 percent to be 25 percent in 2025.

“The revision of the energy mix is made by including nuclear and non nuclear,” Luluk said.
 
He said the government would also make every effort to speed up the utilization of the new and renewable energy.

Therefore the government is currently carrying out the construction of the second phase 10,000 MW power plant with most of its energy will come from geothermal and hydro-power, he said.

It is the target of the government that the geothermal capacity will increase by 2,000 MW in 2012 and rises to 5,000 MW in 2014 because the the country’s geothermal potential is 29,000 MW.
 
Luluk said that aside from geothermal energy, his party would also review the development of bio-fuels.



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