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Transcript/ScriptRenewables Emerging Markets
HEADLINE: Indonesia Balancing Climate, Energy Needs in Effort to Reduce Coal Use
TEASER: The $20 billion in financing pledged by G-7 nations last month is meant to help the archipelago transition to clean energy
PUBLISHED AT: 12/11/2022 at 4:18 pm
BYLINE: Yuni Salim, Nova Poerwadi
DATELINE: Washington
VIDEOGRAPHER: Yuni Salim, Ahadian Utama, Patsy Widakuswara,
PRODUCER:
SCRIPT EDITORS: Kenochs; Reifenrath
VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, AP, Reuters, AFP, Zoom with License, Skype
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((INTRO))
[[One of the challenges of fighting climate change is balancing the need to shift to cleaner sources of energy in the future with the need to keep the lights on in the here and now. It’s no different for Indonesia, with its rapidly growing economy, as VOA's Yuni Salim explains in this report narrated by Nova Poerwadi.]]
(G20 Summit, COAL-POWERED PLANTS IN INDONESIA)
((NARRATOR))
(Reuters)
In Bali, Indonesia, on the sidelines of November's G-20 Summit of the world's largest economies, the United States, Japan and the rest of the G-7 group of industrialized nations announced a Just Energy Transition Partnership with Indonesia.
(AFP)
Its goal is to help the world's fourth most populous nation transition to clean energy.
(SET UP MINISTER INTERVIEW WITH PATSY WIDAKUSWARA)
Indonesia's finance minister welcomed the new partnership.
((Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesian Finance Minister)) (female, in English)
“Indonesia is going to be an economy which will continue growing, and the demand for energy is definitely going to continue to increase. Indonesia has many possibilities of energy sources, but currently we're still dominated by coal as our energy source."
(INDONESIAN COAL-POWERED PLANTS, POLLUTION IN INDONESIA)
((NARRATOR))
(AFP)
Environmentalists estimate that about 85% of Indonesia's electricity is generated by fossil fuels, mostly coal. The new partnership is designed to help Indonesia move towards "net zero" emissions by 2050, ten years earlier than the country's initial target.
(REUTERS)
Separately, at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2021,
(AFP)
Indonesia set a deadline of 2040 to retire its coal-powered plants.
Environmental activists say that they appreciate the good intentions, but right now, Indonesia can’t even meet more modest short-term climate goals.
((Leonard Simanjuntak, Greenpeace Indonesia)) (male, in Indonesian)
((Mandatory Courtesy: Zoom))
"2025, for instance, is only three years away. The goal was to have 25% of energy generation come from renewable sources. We're still at 12% and have been stuck there for years."
((COAL BEING TRANSPORTED))
((NARRATOR))
(AFP)
Greenpeace hopes the G-7 nations providing the funding will keep the pressure on Indonesia to meet its goals.
((Leonard Simanjuntak, Greenpeace Indonesia)) (male, in Indonesian)
((Mandatory Courtesy: Zoom))
"Indonesia is the most stubborn in this region. While everyone else is reducing coal use, Indonesia alone is expanding it."
((HIGH SPEED RAIL PROGRAM))
((NARRATOR))
REUTERS
Analysts note that Indonesia's ambitious infrastructure projects, including the recently opened high-speed rail project financed as part of China's Belt and Road Initiative, has led to an increase in coal use.
(GUANIE LIM SET UP ON SKYPE)
Based in Japan, Guanie Lim is an expert
(REUTERS)
on the Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia.
((Guanie Lim, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies))(male, in English)
((Mandatory courtesy: Skype))
"It is a push and pull thing, right? Because to drop everything is unrealistic, is very unrealistic. Practical because there is the switching costs, the duration could be 10 years or even 10, 20 years and within it 10 to 20 years, you have to reinvest just to maintain your existing petrol station, gas station as the maintenance costs."
(VARIOUS RENEWABLE ENERGY)
((NARRATOR))
(AFP)
The newly announced energy partnership will provide 20 billion dollars in public and private funds to assist the transition and will not only incentivize renewable energy but also offset the impact of the transition on local communities.
((For Yuni Salim in Washington, Nova Poerwadi,
VOA News)
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Location (dateline)
Washington D.C.
Embargo DateDecember 11, 2022 13:54 EST
Byline
Yuni Salim, Nova Poerwadi
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