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In bio fuel development in Indonesia context, how can we steered the bio fuel development? Moreover, who steered who? Fisher purposed what he called “reflexive awareness,” for actors to become attentive to nested processes, structures, interactions, and interdependencies, both immediate and more removed, within which they operate (Fisher, 2006). Reflexive awareness also implicates equality, so that there is no dominant actor who can dictate the others what to do. The absence of dominant actor can be found when Indonesia’s president launched several regulations that addressed to several parties for support bio fuel development in Indonesia. The regulations failed to emerge bio fuel network, especially to develop the production chain. There are villages that have a bio fuel factory without access to raw material, other have raw material but failed to produce oil because of wrong treatment, and some others villages root up their jatropha field because there is no buyer. Resistance to follow bio fuel road map that been designed by the Bio fuel National Team also influenced by the absence of government assurance to support bio fuel policy. For example, national public enterprises that been pointed as a stand by buyer for bio fuel, gain a huge loses so they decrease the number of bio fuel consumption. This reaction influences other actors and disturbs the whole trajectory. Can this trajectory be maintained by conducting several reflexive changes, or bio fuel development in Indonesia runs into a chaotic way?

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