REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, AMBON - A biomass power plant and an agroforestry zone will be set up in South Buru district, Maluku, President Director of PT Binatek Energi Terbarukan, Erwin Jahja, stated on Thursday.

"We are ready to cooperate with the district and other city administrations in Maluku in terms of developing renewable energy power plants, either biomass, water, or wind, according to the potential in each area," Jahja noted. 

The plan to develop the renewable energy power plant was initiated after a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was inked among the Governor of Maluku Said Assagaff, District Head of South Buru, Tagop Sudarsono Soulissa, and PT Binatek Energi Terbarukan, a private company working in the field of developing renewable energy power plants.

Moreover, of the 60 percent of the 1,034 inhabited islands, only 50 percent of them have access to electricity. It was expected that PT Binatek Energi Terbarukan could immediately commence the development of the biomass power plant, the governor said.

PT Binatek Energi Terbarukan also signed an MoU with the state-owned electricity company, PT PLN, in Maluku on the supply of electricity from the biomass power plant in South Buru.

Meanwhile, the Maluku governor responded positively to the power plant building plan. 

"I expect the other eight districts and two cities in Maluku could follow the MoU signed by South Buru district to meet 60 percent of the electricity demands of the people living in the other 1,034 islands," Assagaff remarked.

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