Decentralized Power Generation in Indonesia: Current issues and prospects
(Desentralosasi Pembangkit Tenaga Listrik di Indonesia: Kondisi saat ini dan prospeknya) 

Abstract

The Government encourages the use of new and renewable energy to create energy security of supply in the long term. Indonesia is an archipelago with a load and power generation spread unevenly across the country and eletricity interconnection is still limited, it is necessary to search a breakthrough of new and renewable energy through decentralize power generation. The power plant that prospective to meet those needs is a small-scale coal power plant, microhydropower, small scale geothermal and solar home system. Decentralize power generation development will need policies to support the dissemination of development.