President Jokowi: Indonesia Plans to Produce Palm Oil-based Avtur

INDONESIAN President Joko `Jokowi` Widodo has pledged that Indonesia will export aviation turbine fuel (ATF), or avtur, and produce palm oil-based avtur. Jokowi said in his state address before members of the House of Representatives (DPR) and Regional Representatives Council (DPD) in Jakarta, Friday (16/8/2019). He said, Indonesia is implementing mandatory use of biodiesel 20% (B20) and will increase its bio-content to 30% (B30) next year. Moreover, Indonesia is able to produce B100. “The fact that we produce avtur by ourselves so that we don’t import avtur anymore. We can do more than that, we can export avtur, we want to produce avtur from palm oil as well.” Earlier at a limited cabinet meeting, Monday (12/8/2019), Jokowi encouraged the ministers to study further the possibility of converting CPO to avtur. “I heard CPO can be converted into avtur. Let’s conduct more comprehensive study on this matter.” The Government has set out to accelerate the biodiesel mandatory program by raising bio-content from B20 to B30 by January 2020 and will jump to B50 by the end of 2020. Currently, the adoption of B20 has reached 97.5% of its monthly target between January and July this year. Average monthly diesel imports this year has dropped by 45% compared to that in 2018. ***