Coal barges are pictured as they queue to be pull along the Mahakam River in Samarinda, East Kalimantan province, Indonesia, on Aug 31, 2019. (Photo: REUTERS)Jakarta (VNA) – Indonesia needs a grant of about1.5 billon USD from the International Partnership Group (IPG), including theUS, Japan, Canada, Denmark, the European Union (EU), France, Germany, Italy, Norway and the UK to terminate coal mining and productionunder the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP)'s framework.
Executive director Indonesian Institute for EssentialServices Reform (IESR) Fabby Tumiwa said the institute cannot take on debt forenergy and coal mining termination programmes. In case of having to take on debt, preferential financial sources must ensure an interest rate of less than 3%.
Last year, at the G20 Summit in Indonesia, IPG pledgedto raise 10 billion USD in public funds over three to five years as part of aJETP plan to help Indonesia remove coal in production.
Financial institutions in the Glasgow FinancialAlliance for Emission Reduction (Gfanz) have also pledged 10 billion USD,bringing the JETP programme a grant of up to 20 billion USD.
However, Indonesian Ministry of Energy recentlysaid that the country will receive about 160 million USD in funding from JETP.This amount is too modest compared to the 20 billion USD committed under theJETP framework.
Meanwhile, about half of the 20 billion USD isexpected to come from commercial loans.
Indonesia is currently drafting a comprehensiveinvestment plan for the JETP programme. The document will be released in August.
The document will provide details on the number of coal-fired power plants that Indonesia willhave to shut down for a specified period of time./.
