Several months ago, the vice president was in town to open the national palm oil conference. Now he’s back in Bali on a seemingly more environmentally-friendly note, to open the Bali Clean Energy Forum.
The forum is timed with the launch of the “Center of Excellence (CoE) for Clean Energy, which was established to support Indonesia’s goal of sourcing a significant amount of its total energy requirements from renewable energy by 2025.
“Energy is already a necessity for us and a source of progress. We are all here to discuss how the progress can be adapted to current conditions,” Vice President Jusuf Kalla said on Thursday, as quoted by Republika.
Kalla was accompanied by big names in the field, such as Energy Minister Sudirman Said and the executive director of the International Energy Agency, Faith Birol.
Attending the forum are a number of high-ranking energy officials from around the world, private sector experts in clean energy, and other related organizations.
Running from Feb. 11 to 12, the forum’s objective is to keep the dialogue going about the acceleration of clean energy development.
The forum is a follow-up to Indonesia’s commitment to innovation along with 19 other countries to the climate change convention, COP 21, in Paris, 2015.
