Last week in West Java, President Joko Widodo officially launched the construction of six new Indonesian geothermal power plants spread across several provinces in Indonesia, while state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina said that it was ready to spend up to Rp 33 trillion (US$ 2.5 billion) to finance the development of geothermal electricity plants up to 2019.
The geothermal projects are hoped to help the government achieve its ambitious target of generating a total of 35,000 MW in the next five years, as well as ease its heavy reliance on coal.
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