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The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries' (KKP's) Acting Director of Marine Space Management, Pamuji Lestari. (ANTARA/HO-KKP/KT) - 

The Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) has ensured that state electricity firm PT PLN's agenda to provide renewable electricity to Singapore aligns with the existing regulations.

The KKP ministry has discussed the plan and strategy with PLN, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, and Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday, January 14, 2022, the KKP's Acting Director of Marine Space Management, Pamuji Lestari, stated here on Saturday.

At the meeting, the KKP expressed its readiness to facilitate and consult about licensing for the utilization of marine space in accordance with Law No. 11 of 2020 on Job Creation and Government Regulation No. 21 of 2021 on implementation of Spatial Design.

"We are ready to support and synergize strategies for supplying electricity to run in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations," Lestari noted.

Earlier, Director of Electricity Business Development at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ida Nuryatin Finahari, lauded the plan to supply electricity sourced from renewable energy.

Meanwhile, PLN has planned to construct an electricity system in Sumatra to provide electricity abroad, according to PLN's Executive Vice President (EVP) of Electricity System Planning Edwin Nugraha Putra.

For the Indonesia-Singapore interconnector, the electrical main station must be located on the foremost island as the most effective site for renewable energy power plants, Putra explained.

PLN also built transmission lines between Indonesia and Singapore through the power wheeling scheme, and PLN's business areas can be used for electricity exports to Singapore, Batam PLN President Director Nyoman S. Astawa stated in Batam, Riau Islands.

"The landing station must be located in Batam's territories, and PT PLN in Batam has suggested the Lumba Besar Island as the site for the landing station," Astawa stated.

On the other hand, Lestari pointed to the absence of an undersea cable corridor for serving as the interconnector between Indonesia and Singapore through the Singapore Strait, thereby eliciting the need for a review of zoning plans in the surrounding waters//ANT