This was conveyed by the deputy for climate change control and carbon economic governance at the ministry, Ary Sudjianto, while underlining the need for effective management of battery waste recycling to prevent negative environmental impacts.
"It is about how to process battery waste as the number of EV batteries usage increases," Sudjianto said at the JAMA Lube Oil Seminar 2025 here on Monday.
He noted that currently, Indonesia lacks the facilities and industries to support EV battery processing. However, he is optimistic about EV battery processing development because Indonesia has experience in handling conventional batteries.
"We have the infrastructure to manage conventional batteries. We also have industries that use materials recycled from battery waste," he pointed out.
According to Sudjianto, cooperation with industry players and supportive policies are required for processing EV batteries.
"The (EV) battery waste will be significantly larger than that of conventional batteries when the use of EVs increases to 15 million units by 2030," he explained.
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Earlier, a member of the House of Representatives, Dewi Yustisiana, said that there is an urgent need for the government to boost the use of electric vehicles to reduce dependency on imported fuel and lower air pollution.
Therefore, the presence of the EV battery industry is crucial to support the EV ecosystem.
The government and private sector have also been aggressively building EV infrastructure in recent years, such as public electric vehicle charging stations (SPKLU), whose number surged by 300 percent from about 1 thousand units in 2023 to more than 3 thousand units in 2024.
Meanwhile, the number of home charging service facilities grew by more than 300 percent: from 9 thousand units in 2023 to 28 thousand units in 2024.
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