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RI, Germany to step up cooperation in clean energy, low carbon
Indonesia and Germany have reiterated their commitments to promoting clean energy and low-carbon innovations
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Indonesia and Germany have reiterated their commitments to promoting clean energy and low-carbon innovations.
Recently, Indonesian National Development Planning Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro and German Federal Economic Cooperation and Development Ministry Parliamentary State Secretary Norbert Barthle organized a meeting in Jakarta.
During the meeting on Oct. 15, Barthle said he agreed to allocate 450 million euros (US$521.5 million) to support the development of new and concrete sustainable energy initiatives.
Both countries also expressed their readiness to collaborate actively in the Partnership on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC Partnership), highlighting the promotion of clean energy as their bilateral development cooperation’s main agenda.
“The Indonesian government has set ambitious low-carbon goals for itself. It has sent a strong signal to install a climate-friendly and sustainable development policy,” Barthle said.
According to a press release from the German Embassy to Indonesia, Indonesia aims at reducing its carbon emissions by 29 percent by the year 2030 through its own efforts. With international support, however, the country could reduce its carbon emissions by up to 41 percent by the year 2030.
In order to achieve this mission, the country aims at boosting its share of renewable energy in the electricity mix by about 23 percent by 2025. At the same time, the demand for energy is also expected to increase considerably within the same period due to continuous economic growth. To help Indonesia balance these needs, the German Parliamentary State Secretary offered funding to two new bilateral energy-related projects.
The first project, the press release says, aims at exploring the immense potential of geothermal power throughout Indonesia, while the second project will build transmission lines in Sulawesi connecting different renewable energy sources such as hydropower and the electric grid.
From the total funding given by the German government to Indonesia, 300 million euros will be allocated to the geothermal projects while the remaining 150 million euros will be used to fund the construction of the transmission lines.
“Germany is Indonesia’s long-standing and reliable partner. Together, we address important challenges and have already achieved a history of concrete results. I highly welcome this new funding proposal, which will intensify our cooperation significantly, especially concerning clean energy and low-carbon development,” Bambang said.
