The Government of Indonesia has officially submitted a commitment to contribute to the post-2020 global emission reductions in the Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ahead of the 21st Climate Change Conference (COP) in Paris, France at the end November 2015.
In the INDC, Indonesia submitted a 29% emission reduction plan with a base year of 2030 from a business as usual (BAU) scenario and an additional 12% with international assistance.
The emission reductions Indonesia wants to achieve by emphasizing climate resilience as a result of comprehensive adaptation and mitigation programs and disaster risk reduction strategies, by undertaking the country's low-emission development will focus on the energy, food and water resources sectors and consider Indonesia as an archipelagic country.
Particularly with regard to energy in the mitigation sector at the INDC there are two points emphasized: to push the target of renewable energy achievement in the national National Energy Policy (KEN) national plan with a trajectory of 23 percent of the energy mix in 2025 and to 25 percent by 2030.
In addition to clean energy, INDC Indonesia also mentioned encouraging conservation and energy efficiency, which the government has launched through KEN in 2025 - 2050.
The government itself has targeted to increase its energy supply capacity by 35,000 MW, including the generation of electricity from renewable energy. Indonesia should immediately build a power plant with large amounts and capacities, because it has deficit electrical energy of about 15-18.000 MW in the last 10 years.
To pursue energy needs in accordance with the RPJMN 2015-1019, electricity consumption is expected to increase from 700 kwh to 1200 kwh per capita per year. There is an increase in electricity consumption of about 50 percent from now, so there must be a power generation development of about 50 percent of current capacity. This becomes a tough challenge for the government, because from the experience of building the electricity defector in the last five years only has a capacity of 12,000 MW.
While this electricity project is 35,000 MW, it means a doubling of capacity over the next five years is constrained in the provision of land for generation and transmission
Regarding the government's commitment to use renewable energy sources, he asserted that the development of renewable energy becomes a necessity, although in the RPJMN, the target of increasing energy mix is only 5 percent. The power generation target of clean energy is equivalent to 45 Gigawatts,
The capacity should rise by at least more than four times the current capacity over the next 10 years including after 2020. Governments should encourage the development of renewable energy especially from microhydro and geothermal
The fulfillment of these targets requires an improvement in energy productivity (the amount of energy produced per unit of energy used) at least 3% annually and rapid decarbonization of energy supply, where the portion of carbon nil energy increases at least one percentage point per year.