The Jakarta Post - PLN to use fuels to light up Kalimantan.

What? Are you crazy?
You want to fire all that fuels in Kalimantan?
What? You out, You mind?

So where have all the coal gone?
and where have all the gas gone?
and where have all the logics gone?
and where have all the gas pipeline project gone?

They are going somewhere else over the border.

and where the money come from?
From subsidy? from people's money?

so when will we ever learn?

Oh G

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The Jakarta Post - PLN to use fuels to light up Kalimantan 14 May 2008

PLN to use fuels to light up Kalimantan

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
State power firm PLN will procure diesel-fuel electricity generators worth US$75 million this year to expedite power procurement for Kalimantan, an executive says.
PLN President Director Fahmi Mochtar said Monday the region suffered from a combined 250 megawatts (MW) power deficit.
He said the upcoming diesel-fired power generators had total a 150 MW capacity, and that he hoped they would put an end to the frequent blackouts plaguing the region.
"Using fuel-based oils is the faster solution for the deficit compared to building (coal-fired) power plants, which take longer to build," he said, adding that the procurement only comprised a short-term plan.
For the mid and long-term, PLN's director general of electricity and energy utilization, J.Purwono, said the firm would procure coal-fired power plants with a total capacity of 1,200 MW estimated to be worth a total of $1.2 billion.
"The power plants will be built by PLN and also other companies under the Independent Power Purchasing scheme," he said, adding that the government had received some commitments from a number of companies interested in the projects.
"But we are still evaluating their proposals so the opportunity is still open for other companies to join in the project."
The government targets the new power plants to begin operations by 2011.
Indonesia's current 56 percent electrification rate means almost half of the country's 220 millions people live in the dark.
The government embarked last year on a 10,000 MW project, under which PLN would build 25 coal-fired power plants with a total capacity of 6,900 MW in Java and 10 other units with a capacity of 3,100 MW outside Java by 2010.