Government Invites China to Invest in Renewable Energy

Posted by AsiaViews | Nov 15, 2017 | 0 |

TEMPO-Antara-14 Nov 2017

The Indonesian government encourages China to invest in the archipelago’s new and renewable energy sector. Energy and Mineral Resources, Ignasius Jonan Minister said that China’s investment in Indonesia’s renewable energy sector has not been so great.

“Frankly, in the past year, we have not seen any major activity in the renewable and new energy [from China]. Most are of Europe, US and Japan,” he said as he opened the 5th Indonesia-China Energy Forum (ICEF V) in Jakarta, yesterday.

Jonan said Indonesia will welcome China if they are keen to conduct studies or establish partnerships in the renewable energy sector.

Jonan spoke of the government’s target to have 20% clean energy portion for power plants and vehicles by 2025.

“The target is accompanied by efforts to make renewable energy prices more efficient,” the Energy Ministry’s spokesman Dadan Kusdiana said some time ago.

Dadan said that since May this year 59 power-purchase agreements with a total capacity of 567 MW had been signed by PLN with clean energy developers. PLN will also sign nine more agreements with a total capacity of 640 MW.

PLN’s director of strategic procurement Nicke Widyawati said the current installed clean energy capacity in Indonesia is 6,000 MW. In order to meet the target, additional plants that will operate in 2025 must reach a capacity of 30,000 MW.

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EXTRICATING NDONESIAN CHILDREN FROM ISIS INFLUENCE ABROAD

Indonesia urgently needs to revisit the possibility of repatriating the neediest of its young citizens stranded abroad, whose families had earlier joined ISIS. Most of these children are in camps in northern Syria but there are also small numbers in the Philippines, Afghanistan and Iraq. “Extricating Indonesian Children from ISIS Influence Abroad”, the latest report from the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) argues that the government could begin by bringing back small groups of unaccompanied children under ten years of age, who pose minimal security risk and are most vulnerable to deteriorating conditions in the camps.“The problem is that health and security conditions are worsening by the day in the Syrian camps, and the children are growing older,” says Dyah Kartika, IPAC analyst. “They need access to schools, a nurturing environment, and medical attention. If the government waits too long, the children will be further exposed to ISIS ideology.” The new report examines a 2019 list of Indonesians in camps and prisons run by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The Indonesian government has been trying to verify their citizenship, but with pseudonyms, misspellings and bad transliterations, it is a daunting task. At the time the data was collected, between March and June 2019, there were 555 Indonesians in SDF camps and prisons, including 367 children. Among the children, approximately 277 were under the age of ten and 34 were unaccompanied. In June 2021, there are fewer than ten children who are both unaccompanied and under the age of ten that could be prioritized for return. Bringing back children of ISIS families is no easy task. The report analyses the main challenges faced by the Indonesian government. These include definitional issues, bureaucratic competition, the difficulty of verifying nationality, evaluating the toll of exposure to conflict, assessing security risk, and finding relatives or others willing to provide care once the children are returned. In addition, COVID has meant stringent restrictions on travel, placing further obstacles in the way of repatriation. There are several models for rehabilitation of children exposed to violent extremism in Indonesia that could be modified to accommodate the needs of children repatriated from abroad. The report examines these models and argues that the government does not need to have every detail of rehabilitation programs in place before it starts extricating children from ISIS influence. It can start by bringing back the most vulnerable children and then modify programs as needed.

“It’s important that the government see these children as victims” says Dyah. “They deserve a chance to be children again.”

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