Antara news, Friday, December 25, 2009 12:10 WIB | Economic & Business
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association or HIPMI has asked the newly installed president director of state-owned electricity company PT PLN, Dahlan Iskan, to help accelerate development of sustainable energy sources.
Hipmi chairman Erwin Aksa said in a press release on Thursday that PLN`s new top leadership was expected to show their competence in managing the company not only by preventing the recurrence of blackouts in all parts of Indonesia but also by enabling PLN to contribute to national economic development.
"It is impossible to carry out development without energy. So PLN must be able to help spur development," Erwin said, adding that the electric services trend in all countries whose economies are strong rely on the sufficiency and accessibilty of electricity apart from budget and efficient bureaucracy services.
Hipmi also believed that Dahlan Iskan was facing a great challenge because Indonesia would have to deal with very tight competition under the Asean-China Free Trade Agreement (AC-FTA) that would come into force in early 2010.
"Whether or not Indonesia will be successful in facing China will highly depend on the availability of electricity. China has no problem with electricity, what about us," Erwin said.
Dahlan Iskan was installed as PLN president director by the State Enteprises Minister Mustafa Abubakar on Wednesday (Dec.23) to replace Fahmi Muchtar.
Minister Mustafa Abubakar said at a press conference after inaugurating the new PLN board here on Wednesday that the newly-installed management of PLN is to save up to Rp15 trillion in expenditures by cutting fuel oil use by as much as 35 percent.
"The cut in fuel oil use will be one of the radical concepts Dahlan Iskan has offered," the minister said.
"The concept is good and radical. The concept is about empowering PLN now and in the future," he said.
Abubakar added that Dahlan had pledged leaps in the handling of the company.
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