Indonesia President Instructs Ministers to Prioritize Geothermal Power (GIVnews.com)
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| President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo |
President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo on Sunday instructed his economic ministers to prioritize the development of environmentally friendly power generation. The President had pointed to Indonesia’s 28,000 MW geothermal-based power potentials, which according to reports, may account for 40 percent of the world’s potential geothermal resources.
“On this particular day, today, I instruct the Menko (Coordinating Minister), the BUMN (State Enterprises) minister and the ESDM (Energy and Mineral Resources) minister to ensure that in the future, environmentally friendly power plants will be given higher priority. This is because we have potential,” Jokowi said in his speech.
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