Rendi A. Witular, The Jakarta Post, JAKARTA Lending Hands: Chief executive officer of Cooperation for Development Europe (CDE) Terry Lacey (left) greets Bandung Institute of Technology researcher Tatang H. Soerawidjaja (right) while Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) head of chemical standards Hery Haerudin looks on during a seminar on biofuels in Jakarta on Wednesday.

Terry Lacey , Jakarta Since 2005 the Indonesian Government has pursued a road map to promote biofuels. This stressed biodiesel rather than bioethanol, for power generation rather than vehicles. Long term Asian prospects for biofuel may depend more on biofuels for vehicles rather than power, and on bioethanol rather than biodiesel, as in Brazil, especially once second generation biofuel technologies get under way. But this is not yet clear.