Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-xfwgj Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-02T20:25:38.203Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

3 - The Biofuels Industry in Indonesia: Opportunities and Challenges

from SOUTHEAST ASIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2015

Djatnika S. Puradinata
Affiliation:
Bandung Institute of Technology
Get access

Summary

ABSTRACT

Energy facilitates all human endeavours. It is used for heating and cooling, illumination, health, food, education, industrial production, and transportation. Energy is essential to life. The development of human society and civilization has been shaped by energy. Countries across the world have considered the sufficient production and consumption of energy to be two of their main challenges. Modern economies are energy-dependent. Energy availability and consumption are such important considerations to economies worldwide that the energy consumed per capita has become one of the key indicators of modernization and progress in any given country. The security of energy supplies has been a geostrategic issue throughout this century. At the same time, the sheer intensity of energy production and its use has begun to result in negative impacts on the environment.

INTRODUCTION

Broadly speaking, the final form of energy can be found in three types, namely, electricity, fuel, and heat. These are normally found in applications such as cooking, heating, cooling, lighting, the safe storage of food, clean water and sanitation, and in other services required by society, such as transportation, power for industry and agriculture, energy for commerce, communication, and other economic activities. The appetite for energy has often exceeded the capacity of local resources. During the twentieth century, the energy supplies of many countries were imported from distant sources. Efforts to establish influence and control over oil wells, gas fields, or oil shipping routes have generated persistent tensions and political problems. This situation has often influenced national policies in foreign affairs, economics, and science and technology. It has been a factor in influencing the political map of the world.

Since the discovery of massive, subterranean oil resources in the early 1900s, the world has consumed petroleum-based products as its main source of energy. As the engine of growth, energy has played a key role in achieving real improvements to human welfare.

Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
Print publication year: 2010

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×