Indonesia Targets Sugar Self-Sufficiency in 5 Years, Eyes Ethanol Production
KONTAN.CO.ID - JAKARTA. Indonesia will expand its sugar plantation area to try to become self-sufficient in the next five years and is eyeing development of renewable sugar-based ethanol afterwards. President Joko Widodo said on Friday.
While inspecting a sugarcane plantation owned by ethanol producer Energy Agro Nusantara, controlled by state plantation firm PTPN X, the president said he aims to expand Indonesia's sugar cultivation area to 700.000 hectares (1,73 million acres).
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