Prabowo to open processing centres converting palm oil and used cooking oil into aviation fuel

President Prabowo, in a speech at the inauguration of an electric commercial vehicle assembly plant in Magelang, Central Java, on Thursday, stated that avtur can now be produced from palm oil, which is abundantly available in Indonesia. Additionally, raw materials can also come from used cooking oil or waste from residual frying oil that is reprocessed. “Now avtur can even come from palm oil, and we have plenty of palm oil. In fact, avtur can come from used oil, from waste, from the remnants of cooking oil; we can process it into avtur,” said Prabowo. Prabowo stated that he will open processing centres to convert these materials into avtur. “In a short while, we will open processing centres, refineries for this. We will make massive investments in that sector,” he said. Previously, in a briefing at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta on Wednesday (8/4), Prabowo said that the crisis currently facing the world due to war presents an opportunity for Indonesia to accelerate the development of new renewable energy (EBT) for national resilience. The President is pushing for energy self-sufficiency by developing vegetable-based fuels (biofuel) from cassava and corn as alternatives to diesel and petrol. This step aims to reduce fuel imports by utilising domestic natural resources. “And we can from coal, we can produce diesel and petrol from coal, from cassava, from corn,” he said. Prabowo stated that Indonesia has a strong economic foundation and energy resilience to face the global crisis. According to him, Indonesia is relatively safe from the direct impacts of global energy supply disruptions because it has independent energy sources. “It turns out that after studying it, we have a sufficiently strong economic strength,” said Prabowo.