JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Government of Indonesia plans to change the function of state electricity company PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) into a service company in next 5-10 years.
Vice President Jusuf Kalla said PLN will focus in providing distribution network for electricity, transmission, and infrastructure maintenance.
PLN now has major responsibility in building power plants. Jusuf Kalla said the government will offer the power plants projects to the Independent Power Producers (IPPs). Now IPPs only has 15% interest in the power plant projects while PLN controls 85%.
IPPs has committed to build some power plants with total capacity of 13,400 megawatts, part of government’s 35,000 megawatts mega project for next 5 years period.