Indonesia may fall short on balanced energy target

The National Energy Council has been requested to reassess its outlook on Indonesia's energy targets.

The council noted that the country may not achieve its balanced energy targets by 2025 designed to reduce the country’s oil consumption and carbon emissions.

Based on the council’s projections, Indonesia’s energy consumption in 2025 would be comprised of 23.9 percent oil, 19.7 percent natural gas, 30.7 percent coal and 25.7 percent renewables.

However, according to the government’s projection based on a presidential decree issued in 2006, coal would account for 33 percent of the country’s energy mix by 2025, with natural gas, renewables and oil making up the remainder.

After members of the council met with Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Jero Wacik in Jakarta, the latter requested the former to reassess its outlook. This would be submitted to the House of Representatives for consideration in the government’s energy policy.

The minister highlighted the contribution of natural gas to the country’s energy mix in 2025, which is 19.7 percent.

“It should be up. The logic is [that consumption] would increase but in [the council’s] projection it would go down.”

Herman Darnel Ibrahim, a member of the council, noted that gas consumption could account for 22 percent of the country’s energy mix in 2025, thanks partly to the finding of shale gas and coal-bed methane in the country.

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