Sci&Tech History

Policy to develop biofuels, is started with the National Energy Policy to achieve 5% biofuel utilization of the total energy mix. Through Presidential Instruction No. 1 Year 2006 on Biofuels Supply and Utilization as an Alternative Energy to thirteen governmental Institutions and Regional Governments, and supported by Presidential Decree No. 10 Year 2006 on National Team of Biofuels Development has strengthened the biofuels development in Indonesia. The National Team’s main task to set out Blueprint and Road Map of Biofuels Development in Indonesia will fulfill the goal of National Energy Mix on Biofuel Supply and Utilization. The Blueprint itself that refers to Presidential Instruction will give guidance for the implementation of Biofuel Development.

Long time before policy to develop biofuels was conducted; discourse about biofuel development has already risen in a group of researchers in the 1970s. The discourse was continued by making a prototype in laboratory scale in the 1980s. Production scale was pioneered by Pertamina and Lemigas which launched B30 in 1994-1997. B30 is a fuel which consists of 30% palm oil and 70% non-renewable oil. Unfortunately, the production can’t sustain due to its uncompetitive ness compare with solar price. In 2001, the researchers start to campaign biofuel prospect to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral resources.

Nowadays, biofuel development in Indonesia is still blocked with incentive policy. This policy influences the industry orientation to export their product rather than process raw material in Indonesia, and by the end, implicate to resources which used to research and develop biofuel infrastructure.

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