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            Renewable energies
               iin Indonesia

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Indonesia is a country with an extremely
diverse geography and culture, and the
picture is no different when it comes to re-
newable energies. Geothermal power has
a good chance to surpass cheap coal-fired
generation in the not too distant future.
A new law on grid inputs and remunera-
tion has opened up a whole new market
for the small-scale hydropower sector.
Economically counter-productive and eco-
logically damaging, however, is the mas-
sive subvention given to biofuels by the
government, and the solar branch is also
lagging far behind its enormous potential.

                                              Photos (5): Jörg Böthling/agenda

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T
             he year 2007 got off to an appalling start for
             Indonesia: First landslides and earthquakes,
             then a series of plane crashes and ferry acci-
             dents, and finally the flood catastrophe in Ja-
             karta in February. With so much bad news in
             such quick succession, even the stoic and cri-
             sis-proven Indonesians began to lose some
of their in-born optimism. To help restore the shaken
spirits of his citizens, president Susilo Bambang Yud-
hoyono, a pragmatic politician with a certain techno-                    MHPP in Bandung has
cratic touch, resorted to a rather unusual measure at                proved the nucleus for a
the beginning of March this year. Accompanied by his               small-scale hydropower in-
whole cabinet, he turned up to the Friday prayers in the             dustry whose know-how
Istiqlal Mosque in the centre of Jakarta – to pray public-           is in demand all over the
ly (and in a perfect media spotlight) for an end to the                                 world.
series of natural disasters.                                                          Photo: Entec
    We should not expect too much divine assistance
from this action, however, as most of the disasters
(apart from the earthquakes and tsunami) are in reality
attributable to human causes: The ferry accidents and
plane crashes are consequences of negligence and mis-
management – and Jakarta’s flood disaster was quite
obviously a pay-back for years of unrestrained settle-                                                   Sadly, it is also very probable that Indonesia will suf-
ment and forest clearance in the catchment area of the                                               fer further ecological catastrophes in the coming years.
city’s rivers.                                                                                       The population explosion (the country currently counts
                                                                                                     241 million inhabitants, and this number is increasing
                                                              Controversial energy source:           by a further 3 million every year) is exerting incredible
                                                              The massive expansion of oil           pressure on the region’s natural resources. Exploitation
                                                              palm plantations for biodie-           is already today expanding at an alarming rate. Greed
                                                              sel production is endanger-            for profit and rampant corruption are accelerating the
                                                              ing the natural rainforests of         process.
                                                              Borneo and Sumatra.                        It is unfortunately the tropical rainforest which is suf-
                                                              Photo: BPPT                            fering most. According to the Global Forest Resources
                                                                                                     Assessment of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisa-
                                                                                                     tion (FAO), some 4,900 hectares of forest are being lost
                                                                                                     every day – for the most part through illegal slash-and-
                                                                                                     burn clearance to expand arable land. It is not the small-
                                                                                                     scale local farmers who are playing with fire, however,
                                                                                                     but major corporations looking to make a killing with
                                                                                                     enormous plantations. Comparisons of satellite photos

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                                                                                                                         On-grid in the future? Most
                                                                                                                         small-scale hydropower in-
                                                                                                                         stallations in Indonesia are
                                                                                                                         off-grid systems supplying
                                                                                                                         remote villages – but new le-
                                                                                                                         gislation now allows electric-
                                                                                                                         ity to be fed into the public
                                                                                                                         grid.
                                                                                                                         Photo: Entec

                                                                                                                         Mark Hayton (left), Entec‘s
by environmental organisations have proven that exten-      Although, curiously enough, an OPEC member, Indone-          project manager at MHPP in
sive monocultures, mostly palm oil plantations, are         sia has for a number of years actually been a net impor-     Bandung, a real expert of
soon to be seen wherever deliberate fires destroy vast       ter of oil products. To reduce the dependence on imports,    small hydropower visits an in-
areas of rainforest.                                        the government is now pushing the biofuels sector. Re-       stallation in the village Curug
                                                            fineries are being built and land is being released for       Agung near Bandung, Java.
Sacrificing rainforest for biofuels                          cultivation on a large scale. Not only for oil palms, but    Photo: Jörg Boethling
                                                            also for jatropha cultures (see S&WE 1/2007, page 152),
The oil palm has long since ceased to serve exclusively     another important biodiesel plant, a total of 7.6 million
as a source of edible oils, and is instead processed abo-   hectares are to be made available up to 2010 alone – an
ve all by the Indonesian biofuels industry – for the pro-   area corresponding to the whole of Ireland, for examp-
duction of biodiesel. This market is set to experience      le. Figures which are quite literally devastating for the
enormous growth. In 2006, president Yudhoyono passed        rainforest are taken as indicators of progress by Indone-
a decree which declared biofuels to be an integral part     sian scientists. »Big is beautiful« is the motto: »We want
of the national energy supply strategy. By 2025, they are   to become the biggest producer of crude palm oil (CPO)
to cover 5 % of the total primary energy demand in In-      worldwide,« says Marzan Iskandar, head of the energy
donesia. This ambitious target (the biofuel contribution    department at the Agency for the Assessment and Ap-
is at present still only marginal) must be placed against   plication of Technology (BPPT), the national research
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                                                                                               Vehicles running on bioethanol (here an example
                                                                                               from the fleet of the Ministry of Energy) are still rare
                                                                                               on Indonesia‘s roads.              Photos (2): Bernhard Brand

                                                                                               Population                                    241 million
                                                                                               Primary energy supply (2003)                  159,500 ktoe
                                                                                               Electricity production*                       120.2 TWh
                                                                                               Electrification rate (2006)                    56 %
                                                                                               Total electricity generation capacity*        25,218 MW
                                                                                               Geothermal generation capacity                855 MW
                                                                                               Hydroelectric generation capacity*            4,300 MW
Misleading label: The Indone-
                                                                                               Wind power installed**                        250 kW
 sian »biodiesel« already used   Indonesia boasts proudly that it is ready to overtake.
   by many municipal buses in    Crude palm oil is already an export product, and also         Accumulated PV power installed***             10 to 20 MW
Jakarta contains only 5 % fuel   ends up in Germany, where the EEC (European Econo-            * 2004 data, source: PLN, IAEA
          of vegetable origin.   mic Community) guidelines even subsidise its use in           ** experimental plant on Bali
                                                                                               *** estimation, exclusively off-grid systems
                                 power generation as »climate-friendly«.
                                     An absurd situation, because the climate balance for      Factsheet Indonesia
                                 this Indonesian »green gold« is no less disastrous that the
                                 immediate ecological damage. The clearing of the rain-        Geothermal power: soon competition
                                 forests for plantations produces enormous quantities of       for coal-fired generation?
                                 carbon dioxide, and furthermore a terrible »haze« which
                                 shrouds vast areas of Borneo and Sumatra and even             Contrary to the controversial situation with biofuels, the
                                 reaches as far as Singapore. The latter complains regu-       ecological balance for geothermal power is positive. The
                                 larly to the Indonesian government about this heavy           only real deficit for the second most important source
                                 smog, but the ensuing fire-fighting measures are rather         of renewable energy in Indonesia is the fact that it is not
                                 half-hearted. In fact, it is scarcely possible to bring the   being fully utilised. It is true that Indonesia occupies
                                 fires under control, as they have long since set the peat      fourth place behind the USA, the Philippines and Mexi-
                                 beds smouldering in the forest undergrowth. Experts es-       co in international comparisons of installed geothermal
                                 timate that the burning of these gigantic peat beds, one      power generation capacity (reference year 2005), but
                                 of the greatest carbon reserves in the world, releases 6.5    compared to its population figures – and the immense
                                 times as much carbon dioxide as the whole of the Indo-        potential – there is still not enough happening. Geother-
                                 nesian economy. On top of all this, the rotting waste af-     mal electricity currently contributes approx. 6 % to the
                                 ter pressing of the oil produces huge amounts of meth-        country‘s total power generation, accounting for approx.
                                 ane – a climate killer 21 times more potent than CO2.         1 % in the primary energy balance. A generation capac-
                                 »Climate-friendly« is actually one of the last descriptions   ity of 855 MW is installed at seven different locations
                                 earned by biodiesel from Indonesia. But despite the           around the country. Most of the power stations are to be
                                 scathing criticism of environmental organisations such        found on Java, the most densely populated of the Indo-
                                 as Greenpeace and the WWF, the Indonesian government          nesian islands, where the electricity demand is highest
                                 is sticking unerringly with its biofuels programme.           and the geothermal potential is thankfully very high.
                                     There are already 180 outlets for biodiesel in Jakarta    The largest geothermal power station is in Gunung Salak,
                                 and its surroundings. The fuel sold, which currently con-     some 70 km south of Jakarta, with a nominal output of
                                 tains only a 5 % addition of »real« biodiesel, is market-     330 MW. It is operated jointly by the US oil giant Chev-
                                 ed by the Indonesian petrochemical corporation PT Per-        ron and the state power generation corporation PT Pe-
                                 tamina under the fine-sounding label »BioSolar«. Many          rusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN). Normally, one of the state
                                 of Jakarta’s municipal buses are already running on Bio-      energy corporations PLN or Pertamina is always involved
                                 Solar. Some Indonesian petrol stations are also offering       where geothermal energy sources are harnessed, even
                                 »bio«-petrol (with bioethanol additives). The raw mate-       though a special »Geothermal Law« since 2003 has also
                                 rials for ethanol production are cassava and molasses         opened the doors for wholly private power station op-
                                 from sugar cane. Bioethanol production is at the mo-          erators. Private investors are in fact bitterly needed, be-
                                 ment still a minor niche, but here, too, there could well     cause the state and its energy corporations are not able
                                 be an explosion soon, with no less questionable ecolog-       to finance the building of new power stations alone.
                                 ical consequences.                                            This became painfully clear during the Asian economic

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 Indonesian standard: 50 W
  is the typical size for solar
home systems under the go-
      vernment programme.
                       Photo: DGEEU (Directorate General of
                                    Electricity and Energy Utilisation)

                                                                          crisis in the late 1990s, when the expansion of geother-     duced to below 5 $Ct/kWh. Therefore it will be the price
                                                                          mal power generation came to a complete standstill.          factor which determines the rate of expansion. The out-
                                                                          Today Indonesia is doing what it can to make up the lost     come of the race is still open, but geothermal power is
                                                                          ground. Countless new projects are planned, and gov-         not to be written off by any means.
                                                                          ernment targets specify the installation of 9,000 MW by
                                                                          2025 (geothermal power would then contribute the same        Wind energy: minimal potential
                                                                          5 % to Indonesia‘s primary energy as biomass). But there
                                                                          is still room for further expansion beyond the envisaged     With the whole energy branch geared to the cheap coal
                                                                          9,000 MW. The economically viable geothermal poten-          prices, it is all too understandable that the market op-
                                                                          tial is quoted at a gigantic 27 GW – one positive aspect     portunities for other, decentralised power generation
                                                                          of the country’s location around one of the world‘s vol-     options based on renewable energies are limited. The
                                                                          canic and tectonic hot spots. Geothermal energy is           best cards in this respect are still held by wind power,
                                                                          available without complex deep drilling practically eve-     which is a proven producer of electricity at competitive
                                                                          rywhere in Indonesia, and that makes for relatively fa-      prices. Unfortunately, the outlook for wind farms in In-
                                                                          vourable investment and electricity generation costs:        donesia is rather slack: In the inner tropics, where the
                                                                          The price lies at present between 7 and 8 $Ct/kWh.           Coriolis effect is reduced by the proximity to the equa-
                                                                              That is still too high for the state power company       tor, no major wind systems are able to develop as at
                                                                          PLN. »We are still too benchmarked to coal generation        medium latitudes. It is at best possible to make use of
                                                                          prices,« explains PLN primary energy management spe-         local sea-breeze effects on certain Indonesian islands,
                                                                          cialist Dasnulmadi. A coal-generated kWh costs only 4.5      which is expressed in a few smaller projects, for exam-
                                                                          $Ct and means that investments in conventional coal-         ple a 250 kW wind farm on the holiday island Bali.
                                                                          fired power stations are still more attractive. Over 40 %         There is also little legislative tailwind for the efforts of
                                                                          of Indonesia‘s electricity is generated in coal-fired pow-    the »small renewables« to gain a foothold on the Indo-
                                                                          er stations. The question as to whether this share can be    nesian electricity market. It is true that there are two
                                                                          reduced in favour of geothermal energy in the future         government decrees dating from 2002 and 2006 which
                                                                          will be dependent above all on whether or not the price      define the connection of small and medium-scale pow-
                                                                          can one day be brought down below that of cheap coal-        er stations to the national grid and even specify remu-
                                                                          generated electricity. The scientists at BPPT are confi-      neration rates for the power input. But this still falls far
                                                                          dent. They are currently working on ways to use the re-      short of providing genuine incentives. On the contrary:
                                                                          sidual heat from existing geothermal power stations in       The remuneration system even places renewable ener-
                                                                          a second circuit to generate additional electricity by the   gies at a disadvantage. Both ordinances, the older PSK
                                                                          so-called Kalina process. In this way, according to Marzan   (»Pembangkit Skala Kecil«) on small-scale generation,
                                                                          Iskandar from BPPT, the generation costs could be re-        for installations up to 1 MW, and the newer PSM (»Pem-
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Indonesian energy policy: presidential decree
to map the route

Indonesia’s energy supply stands on shaky foundations. Demand
has increased more than tenfold over the past 30 years and the
rapidly growing, but sadly equally energy-inefficient economy
continues to drive massive expansion of the supply capacities.
Warnings of bottlenecks have been circulating for some time, but
it was only in 2004, when it was realised that the country could no
longer satisfy the demand for oil, one of the most important ener-
gy sources, from its
own resources,
                                                Geothermal 1%
that politics finally                                              Coal 11%
awoke. The gov-              Biomass**
ernment hastily in-             21%
troduced its first
energy-saving              Hydro-
measures, for ex-          power
                            3%
ample the gradual
discontinuation of
                                                                             Oil*
diesel subsidies.                                                            43%
    Last year, when          Natural gas
Decree 5/2006 was               21%
signed by presi-
dent Yudhoyono,          Primary energy supply in Indonesia in
the country at last 2003 – by energy sources.
received an official * oil, diesel, petrol, kerosene
framework for its        ** mainly domestic fuel for rural households
future energy poli- Source: Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (2003),
cies. Two main           www.esdm.go.id, figure: S&WE
objectives are de-
fined: improved energy efficiency and a modified primary energy
mix. The target for energy efficiency is that, from 2025, energy
consumption is not to increase faster than national economic
growth. The energy mix goals also refer to 2025, and are formulat-
ed as percentage shares of primary energy consumption.
    Significant changes are planned compared to the present situ-
ation (see figure). The most important aim: reduction of the
dependence on oil to below 20 %. The chosen alternatives are bio-
fuels (planned 5 %), as well as fuels obtained through coal lique-
faction (2 %). The government has assigned coal an important
role in the future energy mix. Its share is to be expanded massive-
ly and is to grow to over 30 % of the total energy consumption – a
clear confession in favour of a fossil fuel which is still to be found
in abundance in Indonesia. Gigantic new power stations are plan-
ned near the mining areas on the island of Sumatra – the electric-
ity is to be sent via submarine cable to the main island Java and
even exported to Malaysia. Nuclear power is also called upon to
secure the national electricity supplies. Officially, a 4 GW power
station is to go into service on the island Muria off central Java in
2015. Observers, however, are sceptical as to whether the govern-
ment plans can really be implemented that quickly. It is more like-
ly that gas-fired power stations will be contributing even more
significantly to power generation. After all, Indonesia can still
draw on seemingly unlimited natural gas reserves: According to
the targets, the gas contribution to primary energy consumption
is to increase to 30 %. The planned 5 % for geothermal power by
2025 – actually quite an ambitious goal – represents rather a
modest share of the Indonesian energy cake along side the slices
held by fossil fuels.

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 Great potential: The Indonesi-
   an GSM telecommunication
 providers are expanding their
  infrastructure. In rural areas,
  more and more PV or PV-die-
  sel hybrid systems are in use.
    Photo: PT Gerbang Multindo Nusantara

                                                                                                            nities with a grid connection are also able to operate a
                                                                                                            small-scale hydropower station – at the same time ge-
                                                                                                            nerating income for the village coffers from the sale of
                                                                                                            excess electricity.
                                                                                                                The option of feed-in opens up whole new markets.
                                                                                                            Currently, a mere 20 MW of small-scale hydropower is
Perfect rural reputation: Small-                                                                            installed in Indonesia, of a national potential estimated
  scale hydropower consumes                                                                                 to be over 500 MW. When compared to the major dam
   no natural resources and re-                                                                             power stations with a total 4.3 GW of installed capacity
mains unobtrusive in the envi-                                                                              and an estimated potential of 75 GW, the contribution
                       ronment.                                                                             of small-scale hydropower to the country‘s energy sup-
                            Photo: Entec                                                                    plies appears almost negligible – but it does have one
                                                                                                            important advantage: Nature conservation is on its side.
                                           bangkit Skala Menengah«) on medium-scale genera-                 Small-scale hydropower projects, after all, are considered
                                           tion, for installations with a connected capacity of up to       both ecologically and socially sustainable, as they re-
                                           10 MW, offer a grid input remuneration amounting to               quire little intervention in the natural environment and
                                           80 % of the regional electricity generation price of the         are furthermore operated generally at local level.
                                           state power monopoly PLN. The intention is no doubt to               The main player in the Indonesian small-scale hydro-
                                           grant access to the grid only to those renewable ener-           power business is MHPP (Mini Hydro Power Project) with
                                           gies which are able to compete with the pricing of con-          offices in Bandung, a university city in West Java. Bene-
                                           ventional power generation. The result is somewhat un-           fiting no doubt from the intellectual environment – Ban-
                                           fair, but it is still not an absolutely hopeless situation, as   dung is home to the most prestigious engineering col-
                                           the PLN generation costs are not equally low through-            lege in Indonesia – MHPP was set up here in 1991 by the
                                           out the whole country. In some areas, especially in              German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). It sees
                                           sparsely populated regions and on small islands, the elec-       itself as a long-term project to promote small-scale hydro-
                                           tricity grid is fed exclusively from diesel generators. In       power projects in Indonesia and is managed on behalf of
                                           such cases, the costs are around 24 $Ct/kWh – which ac-          GTZ by the Swiss hydropower consultants Entec from
                                           cording to the 80 % rule means that PLN must pay an              Sankt Gallen. Mark Hayton, Entec‘s project manager at
                                           feed-in tariff of over 19 $Ct. That is indeed an opening          MHPP, revealed that another installation is about to be
                                           for renewable energies, and the first IPPs (independent           hooked up to the grid under the PSK remuneration
                                           power producers) have already ventured into business             scheme. It is to be a relatively large 340 kW installation
                                           on the basis of the PSK and PSM schemes.                         on the island of Sumatra, with Entec for the first time
                                                                                                            acting as an IPP and selling electricity to the state mo-
                                           Small-scale hydropower: success at a                             nopolist PLN.
                                           modest level                                                         The years of commitment to small-scale hydropower
                                                                                                            seem to be paying off in the meantime. Since its found-
                                           The pioneers are to be found in the hydropower branch.           ing, MHPP/Entec has established and supported over
                                           The first PSK project was connected to the grid in Selo-          200 small-scale projects. Most of these are already stand-
                                           liman in East Java in 2003. The 25 kW generator, which           ing on their own feet, and a small professional hydro-
                                           is driven by a cross-flow turbine, is operated by a coo-          power industry has developed in Bandung: planning of-
                                           perative founded by the inhabitants of the local commu-          fices, turbine manufacturers and generator suppliers.
                                           nity. Even though the power, according to the local PSK          Indonesian hydropower systems are also being export-
                                           rates, can only be sold to PLN for a meagre 5$Ct/kWh,            ed – to the other Asian countries, to Africa and even to
                                           the project is considered a milestone in the Indonesian          Europe. Only recently, as Mark Hayton proudly reports,
                                           hydropower scene. To date, the small-scale installations         a turbine from one of his partner companies in Band-
                                           (defined in Indonesia as anything below an output of              ung was installed in a small-scale hydropower station in
                                           200 kW) had fed exclusively off-grid systems in regions           Switzerland, the country from which the know-how
                                           without existing electrification. Now, however, commu-            was transferred to Indonesia just a few years ago.

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INDONESIA SPECIAL

 Solar water heating is consi-
  dered a luxury for wealthy
households in Indonesia – as
                here on Bali.
              Photos: Bernhard Brand

                                                                                                      1980s under president Suharto. He demands that admin-
                                                                                                      istration of the government funding be placed in the
                                                                                                      hands of local NGOs, which can then assume the role of
                                                                                                      a bank in their dealings with the SHS users. Chayun Bu-
                                                                                                      diono, managing director of systems supplier PT Gerbang
                                                                                                      Multindo Nusantara (GMN) in Jakarta, also favours a busi-
                                                                                                      ness-style approach, with the PV customers paying – at
                                                                                                      least in part – for the solar systems. GMN seems to steer
                                                                                                      clear of the thankless business with solar home systems.
                                                                                                      The company prefers to work in the private sector, for
                                                                                                      example with the Indonesian mobile telecommunica-
                                                                                                      tion providers, who are currently expanding their net-
                                                                                                      works in the rural areas and use solar energy to power
                                                                                                      their distributed transmission stations. Chayun Budiono
 Solar thermal installations,                                                                         also sees opportunities for PV mini-grid systems in the
  mostly thermosiphon sys-             Solar energy: photovoltaics on a low flame                      more remote villages, particularly since the increasing
  tems, are few and far-bet-                                                                          fuel prices have been raising the costs of conventional
ween in Indonesia. The total           The solar branch, too, is able to point to companies           diesel generation.
  market for such systems is           whose products are successful on the world market. In              Remuneration which discriminates against green
estimated to be only around            the PV sector, PT Sundaya from Jakarta is known the            electricity, and a rural electrification programme which
    15,000 systems per year,           world over as a supplier of plug-&-play solar home sys-        is ruining the reputation of photovoltaics: It almost seems
  due to a high value-added            tems. Sundaya‘s simple-to-install SHS solutions are used       that renewable energies are undesirable in Indonesia. It
                 tax of 20 %.          in rural electrification projects in developing countries,      is the large-scale projects which are courted, among
                                       but at the same time also in Europe in the camping and         them geothermal power, but above all the highly ques-
                                       leisure sector. It is only in Indonesia itself that the mar-   tionable biofuels. The situation is in some ways reminis-
                                       ket situation is rather dim. The figures are languishing        cent of the Suharto era, in which mammoth technology
                                       at no more than 1 MW installed capacity per year.              projects, for example the establishing of a national avi-
                                           Industry observers attribute this above all to the         ation industry, were placed on the agenda in total disre-
                                       poorly planned government electrification project, which        gard for the country‘s true development interests. When
                                       distributes tens of thousands of solar home systems to         it comes to renewable energies, today‘s government
                                       the rural population free of charge each year. As no main-     similarly seems to have lost all sense of proportion. ✹
                                       tenance structures exist, these systems very soon give                                                               Bernhard Brand
                                       up the ghost, lie around to rot, or else are simply broken
                                       down into their components and sold on by the recipi-          Further information:
                                                                                                      Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources: www.esdm.go.id
                                       ents before they are even used. Over the years, it is esti-    BPPT (Ministry of Science research centre): www.bppt.go.id
                                       mated that around 30,000 of the 50 W solar home sys-           Electricity company PLN: www.pln.co.id
                                       tems have shared this fate. The whole photovoltaic
                                                                                                      Non-government organisations (with focus on renewable energies):
                                       branch is suffering the effects of these catastrophic gov-       YBUL: www.ybul.or.id
                                       ernment projects. »PV will never prosper if you just give      PELANGI: www.pelangi.or.id
                                       it to the people for free,« is how Lolo Panggabean from        Indonesian Renewable Energy Society METI: www.meti.or.id
                                                                                                      PT Gerbang Multindo Nusantara: www.gerbangmultindo.co.id
                                       the non-government organisation YBUL comments the              PT Sundaya Indonesia: www.sundaya.com
                                       failed SHS programmes, which already began back in the         Mini Hydro Power Project: www.mhpp.org

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