Some 67 percent of the Indonesian rural electrification program covers the Indonesian eastern regions that stretch from West Nusa Tenggara Province (NTB) to Papua, a senior official said.
"Up to 2019, some 67 percent of the national electrification program will cover areas which stretch from NTB to Papua," Rida Mulyana, the director general of new and renewable energy of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), said Wednesday.
The 67 percent covered 6,926 villages of the whole target of 10,300 villages to be provided with electricity until 2019, he said. The villages are located in NTB, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), North Maluku, Maluku, West Papua and Papua which had not yet been supplied with electricity.
"We give priority to the eastern region in carrying out the 'Indonesia Terang' (Bright Indonesia) scheme because many villages in the region are not yet supplied with electricity," he said. (WDY)
: I Gusti Bagus Widyantara
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