Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The Role of Technology Is Still Limited

Director General of Mineral and Coal at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Ridwan Djamaluddin said the government continues to encourage the use of technology to produce cleaner energy from coal processing.

However, he assessed that the mastery of the technology was still limited so that it had not yet reached the expected economies of scale. "This challenge is so great that the various coal downstream projects that have been launched so far are still running at a speed that has not met expectations," he said. coal. Therefore, the application of technologies such as carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is urgent. CCUS technology is believed to be effective in reducing CO2 emissions due to coal combustion. "Based on a 2015 study by PLN and the World Bank, CCUS is technically feasible to be developed in Indonesia," he said. Indonesia does not yet have a target to stop the use of coal because it still has a high dependence on this commodity. One of the factors driving the development of PLTU is the large coal reserves in Asia Pacific. Specifically for Indonesia, there are coal reserves of 38.84 billion tons which can last for the next 65 years, assuming a production of 600 million tons per year. General Chairperson of the Indonesian Coal Mining Association (APBI) Pandu Sjahrir assessed that carbon credit trading could be a bridge for the coal industry to become carbon neutral.

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