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Govt publishes JETP plan for review, skirts thorny captive power issue
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President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo (right) and United States President Joe Biden walk at The Apurva Kempinski hotel for the Group of 20 Summit in Bali on Nov. 14, 2022. (Bureau of Press, Media, and Information of Presidential Secretariat/Laily Rachev)
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he Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) Secretariat, tasked with implementing a US$20 billion global effort to reduce carbon emissions in Indonesia, has made its investment plan available for public review.
The draft released on Wednesday excludes captive power plants that supply off-grid systems operated by industrial estates around the country, most of which are coal-fired.
Fabby Tumiwa, executive director of the Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR), said the decision bought the government and the International Partners Group (IPG) time to map out plans for the captive coal-fueled power plants without hampering JETP’s progress.
"The government and IPG agreed to examine how many captive coal plants are going to be built and how to reduce their emissions," he told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
“For the time being, off-grid power systems are excluded from the Comprehensive Investment and Policy Plan [CIPP]. In six months, [stakeholders] hope that the analysis will be concluded. After all, the CIPP is a living document, it will be updated as it progresses,” he added.
Read also: Rise in captive power plants casts doubt on JETP emissions target
In the CIPP, Jakarta also announced it would not let its carbon emissions from the on-grid power sector exceed 250 million tonnes and that a downtrend in that figure would begin by 2030.
