Post from another Wahyu Prizuardi Web/Blog Site: June 28 2012 (Safari Compatible)
The use of kerosene for household use in Indonesia reached 54.4% of national consumption, the rest is supplied from gas, coal, and other (http://www.pustaka-deptan.go.id/publikasi/wr304084.pdf). The population is growing more and catapulted the consumption of kerosene. To reduce the burden of oil subsidies, the government has done kerosene to LPG gas, which began in 2006. However, the use of LPG as a substitute for petroleum has yet to reach the whole community, especially the area is remote infrastructure.
The use of kerosene for household use in Indonesia reached 54.4% of national consumption, the rest is supplied from gas, coal, and other (http://www.pustaka-deptan.go.id/publikasi/wr304084.pdf). The population is growing more and catapulted the consumption of kerosene. To reduce the burden of oil subsidies, the government has done kerosene to LPG gas, which began in 2006. However, the use of LPG as a substitute for petroleum has yet to reach the whole community, especially the area is remote infrastructure.
Reduction of oil supplies has led to scarcity of
kerosene at an affordable price, which is still very much needed by the lower
middle class. Although kerosene is still available in some areas, people are
forced to buy at high prices. For example, the highest retail price (HET) in
Pekanbaru kerosene Rp 2400 per liter, but people buy it at a price of Rp 4500
per liter. Even in some areas people buy it at a price of Rp 10 000 per liter.
This has become one of the reasons people in this area tend to re-use firewood
as a fuel substitute kerosene for cooking purposes.
It is of course brings harm to the continuity of
forest sustainability for the return depends on the forest as a source of
energy. As one attempt to address the particular problems of availability of
fuel for household daily, using vegetable oil fuels that are specific to that
location (BBN-oriented sites) may be one solution to address the people's
dependence on kerosene and firewood .
BBN is a source of oil that can be obtained from
various sources such as oil palm and coconut, as well as oils of some plants
that are not included in the agricultural or horticultural commodities. One
plant that has a high potential to be developed and widely grown around Sumatra
is a plant bintaro (Cerbera manghas L) where the plant is producing fruit
potential for oil is extracted, mainly from the seeds. Direct compression of oil
seeds or crude oil after the decantation process can be used to substitute for
kerosene in the stove that has been modified before.
Picture: Carbera Manghas - Bintaro
Bintaro plants grow naturally in many wetlands in
Sumatra but people have not been using this plant as yet know the benefits. In
particular, the proposed activity is utilizing bintaro fruit, especially the
seeds to extract oil, the oil can then be used as a source of biofuel for the
community. While in general, with the fruit bintaro activities to utilize local
energy source for the communities located in the swamp / wetland community is
expected to eventually have an additional activity for the processing of
vegetable oils in order to meet its energy needs independently. It is expected
to impact on local economic empowerment and increasing incomes.
As a first step of this activity, Dr. Aris Purwanto
engage in activities that include technical data collection and processing oils
bintaro appropriate and adapted to the conditions of facilities and
infrastructure available at the location, design development and modification
processing oil burner press are available on the market. [Wahyu Prizuardi/Selaras Research Institute]
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