JAKARTA (XINHUA) – Indonesia’s state-owned oil company Pertamina is currently developing low-carbon technologies to achieve energy self-sufficiency within five years, a company official said.
“We are developing four breakthroughs in the low-carbon business, including the development of biofuels, petrochemicals, geothermal, and carbon capture utilisation and storages,” Pertamina’s Vice President of Corporate Communication Fadjar Djoko Santoso, said in a statement.
“We hope the breakthroughs will strengthen our energy self-sufficiency, while also impacting the reduction of carbon emissions and diversifying the business portfolio which will open new business opportunities in the future,” he said.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has proposed 17 priority programmes, one of which is energy self-sufficiency, meaning that the country has to independently fulfill the needs of domestic energy.
