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View all search resultsThe alert comes amid concerns over the country's upstream production performance, with average oil production from January to July 2026 standing at 578,156 barrels per day, only 95 percent of the 610,000 bpd target set in the state budget.
At the event on Tuesday, President Prabowo Subianto broke ground on solar power plants in Banyuwangi and Pasuruan in East Java, as well as at Gajah Mungkur Reservoir in Central Java, with a combined capacity of 396.4 MWp.
The government has imported around 770,000 barrels of Russian crude oil, according to a Bloomberg report, though the energy ministry says further verification is necessary to determine the composition and source of the fuel that makes up the so-called Indonesia blend.
Indonesia officially launched its latest biodiesel blending mandate on Thursday, requiring a fuel blend of half palm-based diesel and ​conventional diesel known as B50, as President Prabowo Subianto pushes to cut fuel imports and achieve energy self-sufficiency. The rollout of the new blend will raise domestic palm oil demand.
The Institute for Essential Services Reform (IESR) said the disruptions at a single power plant or transmission component not supposedly trigger widespread blackouts given PLN's 30 percent reserve margin, protection systems and network redundancies.
In Medan, North Sumatra, the blackouts have now triggered a looming clean water supply crisis after critical equipment operated by regional water company PDAM Tirtanadi was damaged during the outages.
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