Jakarta Globe, Tabita Diela, Apr 23, 2015
Jakarta. Indonesia will hold a global renewable energy summit next week, marking the launch of the country’s initiative to attract $56 billion in investment in environmentally friendly power generation over the next five years.
Photovoltaics on the eastern islands of Sumba are being used for electricity generation. (Antara Photo/Hafidz Mubarak) |
Jakarta. Indonesia will hold a global renewable energy summit next week, marking the launch of the country’s initiative to attract $56 billion in investment in environmentally friendly power generation over the next five years.
The “Tropic
Landscape Summit 2015,” next Monday and Tuesday, will bring together government
representatives and investors in the renewable energy industry from Australia, Switzerland,
China, France, the United States, Britain and Singapore.
“Indonesians
will account for 3.5 percent of the world population in 2025, but our fossil
fuel reserves are much less than our needs,” Sudirman Said, the minister for
energy and mineral resources, said at a press conference in Jakarta on
Wednesday.
“If we rely
only on fossil fuels, we will run out when the time comes. We don’t have any
choice other than to shift to renewable energy,” he said. GA
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