Jakarta The Indonesian government is focusing on encouraging equitable access to environment-friendly electricity across the country, an official has said.

Electricity that is friendly to the environment and equitable is characterized by a capacity increase in clean energy-based power plants, bureau head of communication, public information, and cooperation at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, Agung Pribadi, said in a statement received here on Saturday.

According to him, the electrification ratio reached 99.4 percent in the third quarter of 2021 with an additional capacity of 386 MW clean energy plants added during January–September this year.

“We target all regions and households in Indonesia to be 100-percent electrified by next year,” Pribadi said.

Based on data from the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, only East Nusa Tenggara province has an electrification ratio of below 90 percent, he noted. Meanwhile, the electrification ratio in Bali has reached 100 percent, he said.

Moreover, the acceleration of electricity infrastructure development has become one of the government’s priority programs as it is linked with improving the quality of service, he added.

Source: Antara News