Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post 16 Sep 09;
The government is unlikely to meet its much-pledged carbon emissions cut from the energy sector due to corporate inertia and the absence of financial incentives to develop clean technologies.
The office of the State Ministry for Environment said that the use of renewable energy continued to lessen and there were no new investments in low-emission energy sources like geothermal and hydropower plants.
“Coal will still be the main source of energy here,” said Haneda Sri Mulyanto, head of the climate change mitigation unit at the ministry.
Coal burning has been blamed as main source of greenhouse gas emissions.
A 2006 presidential decree on national energy policy stated the use of renewable energy, including biofuels, geothermal, nuclear, and liquid coal would reach 17 percent by 2025.
