Biomass Power Plants Developed by Indonesia and South Korea in West Papua

Biomass Power Plants Developed by Indonesia and South Korea in West Papua

The Indonesian government, through the state-owned forestry company
Perhutani, and a South Korean investor developed biomass power plants for a
sago factory in Kais sub district, South Sorong district, West Papua
province.

A press release from Perhutani received here on Thursday mentioned that the
cooperation agreement was made between the Executive Director of Perhutani,
Denaldy M. Mauna, and the CEO of Korea Western Power (KWP), Jung Ha Hwang,
in Seoul, South Korea, last Friday.

Denaldy stated that the cooperation allows Perhutani Group to develop a
biomass plant of 200 thousand hectares, which will produce 3.2 million tons
of woodchips.

The amount of woodchips can generate an electricity plant of 800 megawatts
per year. This means that biomass energy can reduce the use of fossil energy
(diesel) of IDR2 trillion per year.

The development of a biomass power plant is important considering that the
world's most renewable energy is using biomass such as tree wastes.
Perhutani has many opportunities to develop biomass energy from forests,
including from sago wastes, in West Papua, "he noted.

The cooperation was initiated from the government-to-government agreement
between Indonesia and South Korea in 2007 on the management of forest area
of 500 thousand hectares.

In 2009, Perhutani followed up the agreement by planting fast-growing
species of sengon trees (Albazia Falcataria), Acacia mangium, and Gmelinia
arborea on an area of 7424.19 hectares with Korean Indonesia Forestry
Center, which is a subsidiary of the National Forestry Cooperatives
Federation.

There was also cooperation between Perhutani and the Korean Forestry
Promotion Institute (KoFPI) in 2013 for planting Gliricidia on 1.5 thousand
hectares of Perhutani's area in Central Java.

During his visit to South Korea, Perhutani's Executive Director also met
with KoFPI and the leading management of KEWP to discuss further cooperation
on biomass planting on 10 thousand hectares and the processing industry.

"We plan to develop a biomass area of 200 thousand hectares. Some parties
have discussed the plan with Perhutani, namely Hyundai Corp., Aju Corp, GS
EPS, UC Plant, and Korbi," Denaldy pointed out.

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APT Consulting Group Co., Ltd.

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