Jakarta, March 12 (Antara) - The Indonesian government is launching its electrification program called "Indonesian Terang" (Bright Indonesia) with a target to provide electricity for 10,300 villages until 2019, or about 97.35 percent of the country's electricification ratio.
The government in the program gives an emphasis on villages in the Indonesin eastern regions. Some 67 percent of the Indonesian rural electrification program covers the Indonesian eastern regions that stretch from West Nusa Tenggara Province (NTB) to Papua, a senior official said.
"Up to 2019, some 67 percent of the national electrification program will cover areas which stretch from NTB to Papua," Rida Mulyana, the director general of new and renewable energy of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), said Wednesday (March 9).
The 67 percent covered 6,926 villages of the whole target of 10,300 villages to be provided with electricity until 2019, he said. The villages are located in NTB, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), North Maluku, Maluku, West Papua and Papua which had not yet been supplied with electricity.
"We give priority to the eastern region in carrying out the 'Indonesia Terang' (Bright Indonesia) scheme because many villages in the region are not yet supplied with electricity," he said.
Information collected by Antara revealed that the total electricity capacity needed to be installed up to 2019 in the six provinces reached 180 megawatt (MW) with an average power consumption of 0.6 kilowatt per hour (kWh) for each family.
The government will assign two regional directors of the state-owned power utility PLN to handle the six provinces in the Indonesian eastern region, namely the directors for the Maluku and Papua Region and the Nusa Tenggara Region, according to the plan.
The assignment is based on consideration that each region has its own challenges and characteristics and that it is impossible for the PLN headquarters to manage them.
The electrification condition in his working areas was low, or only about 74 percent (Maluku), 48 percent (Papua) and 60 percent (West Papua), Papua and Maluku Regional Director of PLN Haryanto W.S. explained.
The low electricity supply in the Indonesian eastern region was due to difficult geographic conditions with mountainous areas and population are in disperse locations, he said. This is not to mention Maluku and North Maluku which constitute islands provinces, he added.
"Therefore, the government will try to utilize potential electricity sources in the regions such as solar and wind energies," Haryanto remarked.
His side will draw up a roadmap to identify and to set development priority in order to achieve the government target for providing power supplies to 97 percent of the Indonesian people, Haryanto added.
"We will draw up a roadmap to reach the target, including the calculation of its cost," Haryanto noted.
According to Energy and Mineral Resource Minister Sudirman Said in a statement on Tuesday (March 8) the government will subside the rural electrification scheme.
The power would be generated from renewable energy sources for the electrification villages in remote and isolated areas, islands or frontier areas, the minister said.
Suriaman remarked that no investors would venture building electric infrastructure in rural areas especially in frontier areas as it would not be commercially feasible.
"The involvement of the state is necessary to bridge the economic gap through a scheme such as by providing infrastructure, feed in tariff and price subsidy," he said after a coordinating meeting on Program of Indonesia Terang.
The minister said subsidy on the program is only 10 percent of the subsidy budget provided by the government for oil fuel.In the past 10 years subsidy on oil fuel which causes environmental pollution totaled Rp2,600 trillion and the subsidy on clean program in the next 10 years would only 10 percent of that amount.
The electrification program would help accelerate economic development and improve the welfare of in rural community.
Currently 12,659 of 74,754 villages in Indonesia are still without electricity and 65 percent of them are in six provinces in eastern Indonesia.
Sudirman said he hoped the fund for the program would be available in 2016.
"In the next two week we would coordinate with regional administrations and will form a PIT task force," he said.
In 2017, the energy and mineral resources ministry may no longer directly build energy infrastructure. The job would be handled by state companies or the private sector.
Vice Finance Minister Mardiasmo, who also took part in the working meeting, said the rural electrification program could be financed with funds from various sources including special allocation fund for energy, fund from oil production sharing, and rural fund.
"If legal basis has been available the finance ministry is ready to set aside and disburse fund for PIT," he said. ***1***
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