InfoSAWIT, BANGKOK – Deputy in Food and Agribusiness Coordination Coordinator Ministry in Economy, Indonesian Republic, Dida Gardera actively took participation in the “2024 ICAO APAC Regional Seminar on Environment" in Bangkok, Thailand. It was conducted by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to promote sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as one main solution to reduce carbon emission in international scale – flight.
In the second day – seminar, Dida presented the potential of Inodnesia in SAF development with his material "Indonesia’s Potential for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Development". He said some points.
As one biggest flight industry in the world with 251 airports and 50 new ones to be, Indonesia would have the big potential to be the main actor in SAF industry. Indonesia is also as the main palm oil producer in the world that produced 3,9 million tons used cooking oil (UCO) in 2023 and would plan to produce 238 million liters SAF per year in 2026.
As in the official statement to InfoSAWIT, Sunday (25/8/2024), even though clean energy is taken to minimize green-house gas, SAF is still raising issues in its use, such as, limited materials, expensive cost (to produce), and unavailable infrastructures.
Since 2020, Indonesia did SAF test successfully for kinds of planes. The latest test was in the third quarter of 2023 that showed SAF did not show different performance to other fossil and conventional fuel.
As the side product of palm oil extraction, PKE would have the potential to be changed as bioethanol that could be used as the material for SAF. Indonesia is proping PKE as the source of SAF material to be categorized in CORSIA lists.
In his closing presentation, Dida emphasized Indonesia would be committed to contribute in SAF development, minimize emission with some strategies globally. The seminar also emphasized it would be significant to get collaboration actively with every stakeholder, such as, the governments, fuel produces, plane producers, flight, airports, investors, and financial institutions to realize the goals. (T2)
