REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BALIKPAPAN -- The electrification ratio in East Kalimantan Province has reached 69 percent, with 93 percent of villages having been covered with electricity, Deputy Governor of East Kalimantan HM Mukmin Faisyal HP said here Monday.

"This figure exceeds the targeted 88 percent," he added.

The policy on the electricity in rural, border and remote areas has been implemented through the development of renewable energy based on the local potential of each region.

One effort is the construction of power plants which are fueled with waste energy from palm oil factories.

The development of the power plant is carried out in cooperation between palm plantation companies and the state-owned electricity company, PLN, through a mutually beneficial business scheme, Faisyal said.

"Until the end of 2014, there are four palm oil mills that built palm oil mill effluent with a total power of 4.2 megawatts," Deputy Governor said.

The power plant development with natural resource management is in accordance with East Kalimantan's development mission to realize the economic competitiveness based on natural resources and renewable energy, he said.

"East Kalimantan provincial administration's policy aims to equally distribute the development in rural, border and remote areas through the development of local potential," Faisyal said.

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