Sweeping 11 PROPER Gold Awards 2025, PLN CEO Receives Green Leadership from KLHK
Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia - A resounding achievement has been recorded by the President Director of PT PLN (Persero), Darmawan Prasodjo, through the Green Leadership PROPER award at the 2025 PROPER Environmental Awards organised by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK). This is the third time the award has been received, reaffirming the consistency of his leadership in promoting green transformation within PLN.
Under Darmawan’s guidance, PLN’s environmental performance has also shown positive results. Throughout 2025, PLN successfully obtained 11 PROPER Gold awards and 35 PROPER Green awards in the environmental management performance assessment.
This demonstrates the company’s success in integrating sustainability principles into its business operations.
The award was personally presented by the Minister of Environment and Forestry/Head of the Environmental Control Agency, Hanif Faisol Nurofiq, who appreciated the company leaders for their contributions to promoting sustainable business practices.
“To the company leaders and CEOs, we extend our extraordinary thanks. The compliance efforts you have undertaken contribute significantly to building many things, from the efficiency of our resources, prevention of pollution, and various activities that can build the community’s economy directly or indirectly,” Hanif stated, quoted on Wednesday (8/4/2026).
Hanif explained that PROPER serves as a compass guiding the business world in implementing sustainable business practices with green economy principles. He said the awarding also encourages industrial performance to exceed compliance standards with environmental regulations.
“Today is certainly a happy day for us all. Those present before me are truly figures who provide direction for national environmental living. Once again, thank you,” he clarified.
On the other hand, Darmawan Prasodjo expressed gratitude for the award given to the company. He emphasised that over the past five years, PLN has continuously accelerated the clean energy transition through the development of new renewable energy (EBT), emission reductions, and economically valuable waste processing.
“We extend our thanks to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry for the award given. For PLN, PROPER is not merely compliance, but an acceleration of transformation. Our commitment is to provide reliable electricity that adds value to the environment and welfare,” Darmawan said.
Darmawan continued that going forward, PLN will continue to strengthen the implementation of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles, accelerate the Net Zero Emissions 2060 target, improve operational efficiency, and expand community empowerment programmes.
“We continue to drive green technology innovation, global collaboration, and make sustainability a work culture. PROPER is a momentum to transform from mere compliance to leading in the energy transition. Now, PLN’s task is not only to provide reliable electricity, but also to ensure that electricity is increasingly clean, environmentally friendly, and provides added value to people’s lives,” he stated.
As part of this commitment, PLN continues to implement various greenhouse gas emission reduction initiatives, from decarbonisation to EBT power plant development. Recorded from 2021 to 2025, PLN successfully increased emission reductions from 12.9 million tons of CO2 to 51.1 million tons of CO2.
Furthermore, the company has also recorded progress in developing new renewable energy, reaching approximately 9.4 gigawatts (GW) in 2025. Not only that, PLN has also expanded gas-based power plants with production reaching 33.7 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2025.
Meanwhile, as one of the decarbonisation initiatives, since 2023 PLN has developed hydrogen by operating Indonesia’s first Green Hydrogen Plant (GHP) at the Muara Karang Gas and Steam Power Plant (PLTGU), Jakarta. PLN also pioneered the first GHP in Southeast Asia utilising geothermal energy, located at the Kamojang Geothermal Power Plant (PLTP), West Java, in 2024.
Now, excess hydrogen production at PLN power plants, which was previously unused, has been developed and turned into GHPs spread across 22 locations throughout Indonesia with a total capacity of 203 tons per year. In the future, the utilisation of green hydrogen can be further optimised as co-firing for Steam Power Plants (PLTU), environmentally friendly transportation fuel, and needs in the industrial sector.
“It is hoped that the initiatives we are running will not only have a positive impact on environmental conservation, but also provide a multiplier effect by creating jobs, strengthening the local economy, and supporting national infrastructure development,” Darmawan emphasised.