(TheIndoDaily.com) – President Prabowo Subianto has set an ambitious target to stop importing fuel within five years and instead, rely on domestic fuel resources.
“[Achieving] 100 percent energy self-sufficiency is a must. I believe and am sure that in the next years, Indonesia will no longer import fuel,” President Prabowo said on Monday (20/01).
The Head of State said the plan is part of the government’s energy independence target while expressing optimism that Indonesia will become one of the key players in the global energy transformation.
President Prabowo made the above statement when launching 37 strategic electricity projects related to the construction of 26 power plants with a total capacity of 3.2 gigawatts and eleven transmission networks and substations in eighteen provinces in the Jatigede Hydroelectric Power Plant, Sumedang regency, West Java province.
“This is clearly the work of the entire Indonesian people, the hard work of our countrymen across institutions and agencies,” he said.
Such infrastructure, the President added, is an important foundation to support economic transformation towards an industrial country.
“We want to be an advanced, modern country. We aim to improve people’s welfare and eradicate poverty in Indonesia. To achieve that, energy is indispensable. We have abundant natural resources and we now can carry out the transformation,” he added. (RK)