DEFLEKSI ENERGI: PENYIMPANGAN PRAKTEK COFIRING BIOMASSA DI JAWA TIMUR

The report argues that biomass co-firing in East Java is plagued by economic failure, ecological damage, and illegal practices. It finds that Perum Perhutani's energy plantation forests (HTE) have caused significant economic losses for local farmers and are financially unviable for the company. Furthermore, it reveals that PLTU Paiton relies on sawdust from illegal sawmills, often involving stolen timber, and that some suppliers manipulate biomass weight by adding water with the complicity of plant officials. The report also notes that major wood pellet exporters, such as PT Kaliandra Merah Nusantara, primarily export to South Korea rather than supplying domestic power plants.

• Perum Perhutani's energy plantation forests (HTE) in East Java have caused severe economic losses for farmers, who lost an estimated 144 million rupiah per hectare over three years due to the inability to plant corn under the shade of Gliricidia trees.
• The HTE business model is financially unviable for Perum Perhutani; in KPH Padangan, the production and transport costs for one truck of Gliricidia exceed the selling price, resulting in a loss of 180,000 rupiah per shipment.
• PLTU Paiton's biomass supply chain is characterized by illegality, with sawdust sourced from sawmills in areas like Pakuniran that lack business permits and process timber suspected to be stolen from state forests.
• Suppliers of sawdust to PLTU Paiton engage in fraud by adding water to the biomass to increase its weight, a practice allegedly overlooked by plant weighing officials in exchange for commissions.
• Wood pellet exporters in East Java, specifically PT Kaliandra Merah Nusantara, do not supply PLTU Paiton; instead, they export nearly all their production to South Korea.
• The operation of PLTU Paiton has negatively impacted local health and the environment, contributing to respiratory infections (ISPA) among residents and damaging marine ecosystems through coal spills.
• The expansion of HTE has led to ecological degradation, including the planting of Gliricidia in protected river buffer zones (sepadan sungai) and contributing to the drying of the Notopuro Reservoir.

APA

Trend Asia (n.d.). DEFLEKSI ENERGI: PENYIMPANGAN PRAKTEK COFIRING BIOMASSA DI JAWA TIMUR. https://trendasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Defleksi-Energi-Full-1.pdf

Chicago

Trend Asia. DEFLEKSI ENERGI: PENYIMPANGAN PRAKTEK COFIRING BIOMASSA DI JAWA TIMUR. n.d. https://trendasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Defleksi-Energi-Full-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{trendasianddefleksi, author = {{Trend Asia}}, title = {{DEFLEKSI ENERGI: PENYIMPANGAN PRAKTEK COFIRING BIOMASSA DI JAWA TIMUR}}, institution = {Trend Asia}, url = {https://trendasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Defleksi-Energi-Full-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }